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Firefly looks to punch NASA moon ticket with overnight SpaceX launch
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The best Milky Way map, by Gaia

The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (edge-on)

The best Milky Way animation, by Gaia

This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope.
Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the nature of our galaxy’s central bar and the spiral arms have been overturned. Gaia has shown us that it has more than two spiral arms and that they are less prominent than we previously thought. In addition, Gaia has shown that its central bar is more inclined with respect to the Sun.
No spacecraft can travel beyond our galaxy, so we can’t take a selfie, but Gaia
Snooping science on the Moon

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed its first exploration data buy agreement with Hungarian company Puli Space Technologies, whose neutron spectrometer will study water ice in the Moon's south pole region and provide the first direct surface measurements from a permanently shadowed crater. Through this partnership, ESA will obtain data from the spectrometer, which will fly on Intuitive Machines' second lunar mission.
Proba-3 becomes two: satellites separated

Last night a crucial step in the European Space Agency’s eclipse-making Proba-3 mission was completed: the two spacecraft, flying jointly since launch, have successfully separated. This leaves them ready to begin their cosmic dance in the world’s first-ever precision formation-flying mission.
InCubed satellites launched to drive innovation in Earth observation

IRIDE Pathfinder satellite successfully deployed

Proba-3 satellites separate for precision space mission

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 begins transit to the Moon
