rendering of the moon with features labelled. In the top left is a date and time, distance to moon and speed. Along the bottom is a timeline slider, Rewind / Play, 5000x, and toggles for Auto Zoom, Even Light, Labels

Simulation of what the moon looks like from Artemis II at any point in the mission.

jtauber.github.io/artemis-moon/

Built using location data from JPL Horizons and a texture and height map from NASA's CGI Moon Kit provided by the Scientific Visualization Studio.

graphical display of position of Artemis II and Moon relative to Earth with trails showing previous days' locations.

Artemis II page on Space Missions is now geocentric rather than heliocentric so you can see the positions of spacecraft and moon distinct from Earth!

space-missions.com/mission/arte...

Available at: space-missions.com/dsn/

Space Missions Deep Space Network Status of the Deep Space Network Last updated: 1 minute ago DSS14 Goldstone Engineering Upgrades DSS24 Goldstone CHDR DSS25 Goldstone ESCB DSS26 Goldstone Juno DSS34 Canberra EMM DSS35 Canberra Engineering Upgrades DSS36 Canberra Antenna Unplanned Maintenance DSS43 Canberra MMS2 DSS53 Madrid Engineering Upgrades DSS54 Madrid Artemis II DSS55 Madrid ORX DSS56 Madrid Artemis II DSS63 Madrid VGR1 DSS65 Madrid KPLO

Our DSN Tracking now shows Artemis II

We assumed that the spacecraft codes used by DSN were the same as Horizons but DSN is tracking Artemis 2 as "-24" whereas Horizons uses "-1024". (In Horizon's -24 is Pioneer 11).

Artemis II is up on Space Missions: space-missions.com/mission/arte...

We just need to adjust the location visualization to not be heliocentric :-)

Jennie King and I in front of our first slide for “Exploring Our Horizons: Working with NASA Data” at SFU

RASC Vancouver Paul Sykes Memorial Lecture – March 19, 2026 Join us for our yearly Paul Sykes Lecture on Thursday, March 19, 2026! Free tickets will be available soon, please see the following Meetup link: Meet-up Li

Official page is up: rasc-vancouver.com/2026/03/09/r...

Thrilled to announce that Jennie King and I will be giving the Paul Sykes Annual Lecture at the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada on March 19th at the SFU Burnaby Mountain Campus.

Our talk is titled Exploring Our Horizons: Working with NASA Data and we'll talk about @space-missions.com and more!

If you're a fan of Space Missions and you're in the Vancouver area, we have some exciting news coming soon!

the Sun with Venue, Earth and Juice orbiting with fading trails behind them.

We now show trails behind the bodies...

space-missions.com/mission/juice/

Glowing cyan interface reading LAST KNOWN LOCATION Julian Date: 2460910 ISO Date: 2025-08-22

New feature: when a probe is no longer tracked, going to its mission page will show the LAST KNOWN LOCATION

space-missions.com/mission/akat...

a display marked Location that shows little circles for Juice, Earth, Sun, Venus, Callisto, Jupiter, Europa, and Ganymede along with the Julian and ISO Data and the fact it's currently being tracked by the MLG dish in Argentina.

Big new feature!

We now show the location of craft and relevant bodies on the mission pages:

For example: space-missions.com/mission/juice/

a display marked Location that shows little circles for Juice, Earth, Sun, Venus, Callisto, Jupiter, Europa, and Ganymede along with the Julian and ISO Data and the fact it's currently being tracked by the MLG dish in Argentina.

Big new feature!

We now show the location of craft and relevant bodies on the mission pages:

For example: space-missions.com/mission/juice/

This beanbag has live data!

projectamaze.com/beanbag/180/

Artemis II is now included on Space Missions

space-missions.com/mission/arte...

Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal: All SLS Stages in Replenish Mode  - NASA NASA teams have transitioned all cryogenic tanks on the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to replenish mode during the Artemis II wet dress rehearsal. This

Via #NASA - Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal: All SLS Stages in Replenish Mode www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

The best skywatching and stargazing events of 2026

Here is a complete list of astronomical events—from meteor showers to total eclipses to planetary conjunctions—that @philplait.bsky.social is most looking forward to observing this year. Remember to check your local timings for when exactly these events will take place! 🌠 bit.ly/45FnoL3

Comic strip Frame 1: NG-2 on the launch pad. Speech bubble from the payload: "Let's light this candle" Frame 2: Rocket assending. "Woohoo! We're on our way!" Frame 3: Second stage above the earth. Payload exposed showing two probes. One says "Mars here we come!" Frame 4: Second stage in space. Second probe says "Apparently we have to stop at L2 first." Frame 5: The two probes alone in space. "We're at L2! Now what?" "I guess we wait. Shouldn't be long!" Frame 6: Headed "One Year Later..." Same probes. The first just saying "..."

And NG-2 clock reset ~30 minutes

NG-2 Hold at T-0:00:20

The countdown to Mars in ON! Today our twin spacecraft for NASA and UCB's ESCAPADE mission are set to lift off from Cape Canaveral.

🚀 2:57 PM EST
🚀 19:57 UTC

Mission info: rocketlabcorp.com/missions/esc...

Launch webcast starts at T-20 mins: blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2

NG-2 (and hence ESCAPADE) launch postponed due to solar activity.

ESCAPADE's launch is now NET November 12th

space-missions.com/mission/esca...

We've updated space-missions.com/mission/esca... with the next launch possibility.

Hold, and presumably scrub for today's NG-2 launch attempt.

Blue Origin Readies Second New Glenn Mission With Two Mars Cubesats Onboard spacepolicyonline.com/news/blue-or...

Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago.
https://cnn.it/49FLkR0

Fun fact: the very first event we added to our site was the launch of Europa Clipper which happened one year ago today!

We've added Estrack status:

space-missions.com/estrack/