Summary of some of the space launches scheduled for 2020
NASA Mars Rover
- Atlas v rocket will be the vehicle in July 2020
- Planning to land in Jezero crater of Mars
- This can collect rocks, soil samples and store them in a cache
- Also understanding that whether the earlier environment were conducive to life forms
- Identifying possibility to test oxygen production
ESA Solar Orbiter
- From Kennedy space center in Florida in February 2020
- High resolution studies of Sun and inner heliosphere
- It will cover 1/5th of distance between sun and earth
- 2nd mission after parker solar probe of 2018
- It will have to face 13 times more intense heat than on the surface
ISRO Aditya L1
- To study the sun’s corona
- Will be inserted into a halo orbit around the langarian point L1
- Primary load will be a coronagraph
