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EVENTS COMING UP	When	Events	Where	Home
Hubble Space Telescope	Going strong since 1990	Still working away! - in space	350 miles above the ground	Beyond
International Space Station - ISS	Orbitng since 1998	Astronauts aboard!	Spot it! See spotthestation.nasa.gov	ISS
James Webb Space Telescope - JWST	The years ahead	Still working away! - in space	Orbiting the Sun 1m miles from Earth	Beyond
Euclid	2023	Launching to survey + explore	A million miles or so from Earth	Beyond
BepiColombo - begins Mercury orbit	UTC 1 2025-12-05 00:00:00 2025-12-05 23:59:00 Fri 05 December 2025	Orbit begins	Orbiting Mercury	Mercury
Hera	Planned December 2024	Impact! + follow-ups	Asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos	Asteroids
Solar Orbiter fly by of Venus as a gravity assist	UTC 1 2026-12-24 00:00:00 2026-12-24 23:59:00 Thu 24 December 2026	Fly-by!	Passing Venus	Venus
Solar Orbiter fly by of Venus as a gravity assist	UTC 1 2028-03-17 00:00:00 2028-03-17 23:59:00 Fri 17 March 2028	Fly-by!	Passing Venus	Venus
Solar Orbiter fly by of Venus as a gravity assist	UTC 1 2029-06-10 00:00:00 2029-06-10 23:59:00 Sun 10 June 2029	Fly-by!	Passing Venus	Venus
Solar Orbiter fly by of Venus as a gravity assist	UTC 1 2030-09-02 00:00:00 2030-09-02 23:59:00 Mon 02 September 2030	Fly-by!	Passing Venus	Venus
JUICE enters into launch around Jupiter	2031	Orbit begins	Jupiter's moons Ganymede, Callisto and Europa	Jupiter
EnVision launches, for Venus	Launch window May-June 2032	Launching to orbit + study	Heading to Venus	Venus

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