Upcoming Space Events:

NASA will hold a media teleconference to share information about the agency’s upcoming PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27. The agency’s PUNCH mission is a constellation of four small satellites. When they arrive in low Earth orbit, the satellites will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, and help NASA learn how the mass and energy there become solar wind. By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.

Event Location: Online

UTC Event Time: Feb. 4, 2025, 7 p.m.

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zXwq8eSg0

NASA will host a media teleconference to discuss the agency’s science and technology flying aboard Intuitive Machines’ second flight to the Moon. The mission is part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long-term lunar presence. Briefing participants include: - Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters - Niki Werkheiser, director, technology maturation, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters - Trent Martin, senior vice president, space systems, Intuitive Machines

Event Location: Online

UTC Event Time: Feb. 7, 2025, 6 p.m.

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKT99-GcgOM

Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on February 18, 2025. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles.

Event Location: Venus

UTC Event Time: Feb. 18, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PcBreY7sg

Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander will attempt a landing in Mare Crisium near Mons Latreille.

Event Location: Mare Crisium, Moon

UTC Event Time: March 2, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PcBreY7sg

Flyby of the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohansen asteroid by NASA's Lucy mission.

Event Location: (52246) Donaldjohansen

UTC Event Time: April 20, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PcBreY7sg

Japanese company ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 2 lander will attempt a lunar landing in Mare Frigoris.

Event Location: Mare Frigoris, Moon

UTC Event Time: May 31, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCs1UWAo2I0

The Starliner-1 spacecraft will dock autonomously to the International Space Station, carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station.

Event Location: International Space Station

UTC Event Time: Aug. 31, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

Following its deorbit burn, the Boeing CST-100 Starliner will reenter the Earth's atmosphere and land at the White Sands Missile Range using its parachutes.

Event Location: White Sands Missile Range

UTC Event Time: Aug. 31, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner will undock from the International Space Station and conduct a deorbit burn as part of its first operational mission. Following the deorbit burn the capsule will renter the Earth's atmosphere and land at the 'White Sands Missile Range' using its parachutes.

Event Location: International Space Station

UTC Event Time: Aug. 31, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

Second flyby of ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission on its way to the Jovian system.

Event Location: Venus

UTC Event Time: Aug. 31, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg