In 2025, the Japanese-European BepiColombo probe will carry out the most detailed exploration of Mercury. (Here you see it examining its own antenna, preparing for the mission ahead.) https://t.co/4pomSLfyok pic.twitter.com/Z3wf6iwg9b
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) March 17, 2020
Launching this July, the Perseverance rover (aka "Vera") will collect Mars samples to bring home to Earth, where we can do a much more thorough search for traces of Martian life. https://t.co/Cp6PJZ4ZS8 pic.twitter.com/ZbTI7fac5o
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) March 18, 2020
ESA's Comet Interceptor will launch in 2028 & then lie in wait for a fresh comet to approach the Sun. This could be our first mission to an interstellar object! https://t.co/EjnKRL05Ct pic.twitter.com/HD6QmM24w0
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) March 18, 2020
In 2030, the European Space Agency's JUICE mission will tour Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, a hybrid world of water and ice. https://t.co/fCWqKdvmKH pic.twitter.com/wCINzpa8cX
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) March 18, 2020
Lots of cool, smaller space missions are coming, too! Like Japan's Destiny+ mission to a rock comet, and the DART mission that will slam into a near-Earth asteroid to change its course. https://t.co/hJrLkRO28k and https://t.co/Uadb4smkxl pic.twitter.com/w2hTWh6tYy
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) March 18, 2020
Tallbloke's Talkshop 
Comet Atlas going ballistic…
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2020/03/16/comet-atlas-is-brightening-faster-than-expected/
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Josh has it right. The UN has taken the bullying of citizens too far. When it has reached the point where citizens are threatened with jail time for pursuing physical fitness, borg assimilation is the received message no matter the “UNtension”.
“… the DART mission that will slam into a near-Earth asteroid to change its course …”
Possibly with unintended (and unwanted?) consequences …
We’ll need to develop expertise in that area, starting with little ones. Sooner or later we’ll need it to deflect a big one headed straight for us.
It would help if they started looking at/for other ways of getting out there rather than using exploding totem poles (rockets)