| June 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Space Organization | Spacecraft / Rover | Purpose |
| China National Space Administration (CNSA) | Cargo Spcecraft – Tianzhou-2 or “Heavenly Vessel” |
•This spacecraft is used for carrying equipments for the Tiangong space station. • Tianzhou-2 Spcecraft launched by Long March-7 Y3 rocket. • from the Wenchang Space Launch Center. (southern island of Hainan) |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) | Photon Spacecraft | • Designed by Rocket Lab. • Developed for NASA’s next ESCAPADE Mars mission. • ESCAPADE – Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. |
| May 2021 | ||
| Space Organization | Spacecraft / Rover Name | Purpose |
| NASA | OSIRIS-REx | Collecting samples of rocks and dust from the Asteroid Bennu |
| SpaceX | Crew Dragon capsule, Resilience | carrying 4 astronauts to International Space Station(ISS) |
| NASA | Perseverance Rover | It can produced Oxygen from Mars using an instrument called ‘MOXIE’ – Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment. |
| NASA | Spacecraft Parker Solar Probe | discovered a natural radio signal from Venus |
| NASA | Mobile Robot ‘VIPER’ | Launch On Moon in 2023 It will map and explore the moon’s resources on and under the lunar surface, particularly water-ice. |
| China National Space Administration (CNSA) | Mars Rover-Zhurong | To study the Utopia Planitia region of Mars |
| China National Space Administration (CNSA) | Tianwen 1 | It carrying the Zhurong rover that landed on Utopia Planitia region of Mars |
| European Space Agency (ESA) | Jupiter Spacecraft ‘JUICE | To study the Jupiter’s Galilean moons – Europa, Callisto & Ganymede Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) |
