2006, year of turmoil

In 2006, the world will go further in the exploration of the universe. What space events this year will be noticed, interested . The universe is always a mysterious black curtain that attracts the curiosity and imagination of people.

Wild 2 comet room model

The most anticipated and possibly the first event of this year, the return of the Stardust spacecraft, launched in February 1999, after six years of traveling. The mission of the spacecraft is to collect the dust of the Wild 2 comet head and bring the specimen back to Earth, serving to study the origin and progress of the solar system. Stardust and Wild 2 met in January 2004

Expected on January 15, the Stardust will return to the earth's atmosphere and land on the Utah desert.

New Horizon space ship

By January 17, 2006, NASA will send a New Horizon probe to discover Pluto. This is the only planet left in the solar system that has not been discovered by unmanned probes from the earth.

New visits

Mars, to be visited again, on March 10, this year, when the Mars explorer MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: launched on August 12, 2005) into the planet's orbit this. This is one of four satellites flying on Mars's orbit, taking on the role of collecting information and bridging communication between the Earth and Mars, serving later Mars surface expeditions.

Satellite MRO probe

The planet farther away from Venus will also be launched by the European space agency Venus Express (ESA) on April 11 this year. Its mission is to study clouds and air in the Venus atmosphere, about the plasma environment and the surface properties of Venus from orbit. This mission will be done by Venus Express within 500 days of the earth (ie nearly 2 years on Venus).

Smaller stars will also be targeted by NASA spacecraft in 2006. But this plan may be implemented after 17-11 years.

Venus Express is headed to Venus

The Dawn will target Ceres and Vesta, two bodies in the space between Mars and Jupiter. However, finance and technology are two major challenges that make the departure date unspecified.

And the sun, the center of the solar system, will not be abandoned this year. According to the plan, on May 28, NASA will start observing the solar surface with Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, a pair of spacecraft that allows the construction of three-dimensional images of the sun and solar wind.

Test flights

Space Shuttle Discovery plans to take off again in March 2006. The take-off schedule may be postponed, depending on whether the engineers can resolve the incident as they were during the test trip. last year. The upcoming flight is still a test flight for NASA. NASA will resupply the international space station (ISS), marking the return to the third station of the European astronaut Reiter.

Space shuttle fuel tank

NASA can also launch a space shuttle in July, to continue the construction of the space station and enhance solar panels for the station.

The Earth's moon will also be of much interest this year, when the European Space Agency's (ESA) SMART-1 (ESA) is scheduled to complete its mission by falling to the moon's surface. SMART-1 entered the moon's trajectory in 2004 and was very busy for mapping during the past time.

Exploring the earth

Our Earth will also be explored more thoroughly as NASA launches several new observation satellites in 2006. On August 28, 2,3 micro satellites known as Space Technology 5 (Space Technology 5), will be put into the orbit of Pegasus XL. They are responsible for collecting detailed information about the magnetic field around the earth.

On September 29, NASA will also launch the AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) ship into the superstructure as it powers to discover noctilucent clouds.

SMART-1 satellite (ESA)

The European Space Agency will also test the second Galatian satellite for its global maritime positioning plan. The first satellite was launched on December 28, 2005 in Kazakhstan just recently.

And finally, the plan to launch the Falcon 1 missile in late January and early February of this year, an event that did not cause much attention.

People fly more and more, fly farther, discover the boundless space outside themselves, but can they sometimes look back at themselves . A long-standing question has not been answered yet. , who am I.