The New Frontier: The Events of Space Exploration in 2024
As such, the year 2024 is expected to be an interesting year in the fast-growing space exploration industry. The current and near future NASA and other space exploration space ventures include the following missions; These are some of the exciting projects that are lined up by NASA, private space companies and other international space agencies in the coming years.
One of the missions most eagerly anticipated by the public is NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission, which is expected to launch in 2024. This complex robotic mission will involve delivering a spacesuit that will collect rock and soil samples from Mars and return them to Earth for analysis. The results may hold information regarding the past existence of life on the Martian surface and shed light on the geological history of Mars.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp or SpaceX, a California based commercial space company anticipates that the initial cargo carrying mission of the next generation star ship rocket will be to Mars in 2024. It is still early to tell, but over the course of the next several years, Starship could be used to bring humans to Mars in the late 2020s for the purpose of determining the planet’s habitability and conducting surface science. Other space companies also have planned un-staffed Mars missions that are designed for 3D surveying, methane detection, or searching for locations to establish future manned bases.
The Europa Clipper is another spacecraft also planned for a launch in 2024. This is a NASA probe that will pass through Jupiter’s moon known as Europa to analyze whether conditions are ideal for life. The information and pictures could help researchers look through the icy surface enshrouding Europa to the global ocean beneath, which would certainly enhance people’s knowledge about this moon and its ability to support life forms beyond Earth.
In the asteroid belt, the goals of the NASs Psyche mission are to reach 16 Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid. PSYCHE is considered to be the stripped naked core of a previous planet, research on Psyche can uncover the untold about terrestrial planet formation and the core, which can help decipher the history of the solar system.
Domestically, the rest of the privately owned players such as Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX are likely to stay in the business of developing space tourism. Suborbital flights and opportunities to spend a few minutes in weightless will be available for the private persons, and the orbital space hotels are also to be launched in 2024. It will also signal the next significant advancement on the path toward making space travel achievable for common folks.
The following year is positioning itself to provide the foundation for even bolder space achievements in the second half of the 2020s. Whether it is about seeking other forms of life on other planets or planets, moons, and celestial bodies in other solar systems, 2024’s missions will without a doubt make history as space exploration becomes a faster and more thrilling process. As far as space exploration is concerned the coming year can be seen as only the start of this real 21st century journey of discovery.