Is there life beyond Earth? The launch of a new mission in 2023 could shed light on the answer
Continuing the asteroid theme,probe is already on its way back to Earth after its rendezvous to take samples of the asteroid Bennu in 2020. In September 2023 a capsule containing samples of dust from Bennu will be dropped back to Earth .will then continue on its next mission, which is to meet Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2029., in early 2023. It follows the failed 2019 attempt, by its predecessor mission, to make a soft landing on the Moon.
Advances in private spaceflight will also continue apace. SpaceX hopes to send Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire, to fly past the Moon aboard a crewed version of its enormous Starship vehicle, an ambitious new spacecraft that promises to slash the cost of getting into space. If and when Mr Maezawa’s mission, known as “dearMoon”, gets off the ground, he plans to take as many as eight passengers along for the ride.also plans to test its new spaceplane, Space Rider, in 2023.
Arianespace, a European rocket company, also plans to test its new Ariane 6 rocket in 2023. It is the intended replacement for’s current workhorse, the Ariane 5. By halving the cost of each flight, the hope is that it can more easily compete with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.This article appeared in the Science and technology section of the print edition of
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