2018 has been a record-shattering year -with more than 100 successful launches and mission achievements. What are we looking for in 2019? Another year that promises to be spectacular, as a matter of fact.
It started with a bang, with New Horizons’ flyby of Ultima Thule in the Kuiper Belt and China’s
More is coming.
Mars InSight lander, which landed just last December on the Red Planet, will start drilling deep beneath the surface of Mars to unlock the secrets of the Solar System’s rocky planets. Another ongoing mission, Juno, is scheduled to
2019 is also the year when the US will (if all go according to plan) be back in the game of shipping astronauts to the ISS,
On the other side of the Atlantic, ESA will launch Cheops, another space telescope -like Kepler, a planet hunter, to find out more about planets outside of our solar system.
Impossible not to get excited for all these things going on. And with good reasons: 2019 will be the 50th anniversary of the man on the lunar soil, and needs to be properly celebrated. Get ready!
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