The Cosmic Mirrorof News events across the Universe |
Compiled and written by Daniel Fischer, Skyweek - older "Mirrors" in the Archive
Daniel Fischer also won the Bruno-H.-Buergel-Preis 1997 of the AG |
Current mission news: MPF + MGS (science!) + Cassini + Galileo + Equator S + Prospector |
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March 1 | Launch of Cosmos 1, the first solar sail in orbit, privately financed | Updates |
April 3 | Jupiter in Opposition | |
April 8 | Hybrid Solar Eclipse, total in the South Pacific | Map |
May 12 | First possible Return to Flight of the Shuttle, with mission STS-114 | RTF pages |
June | Hayabusa reaches asteroid Itokawa for a fly-by sample return attempt | NEO page |
July 4/5 | Deep Impact comet nucleus impact and fly-by respectively | Homepage |
Aug. 1 | MESSENGER Earth fly-by enroute to Mercury | Homepage |
Aug. 10 | Launch of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA's next Mars orbiter | Homepage |
Oct. 3 | Annular Solar Eclipse, visible from Spain, Africa | Map |
Oct. 19 | Occultation of a very bright star by an asteroid, i.e. Regulus by (166) Rhodope | Dennissenko page |
Oct. 26 | Launch of Venus Express, ESA's first Venus mission | Homepage |
Nov. 7 | Opposition of Mars, not as close as in 2003 but at higher declination | Special Pages |
Based on the Space Calendar, Spaceflight Now's Launch Schedule, Florida Today's Launch Forecast, the Shuttle schedule and other sources such as PH's Astro Almanach.
