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MAVEN (NASA)
LINK: My MAVEN launch blog
NASA / MAVEN / University of Colorado
Launch : November 18, 2013
Destination : Mars - Areocentric orbit
Arrival : September 21, 2014
Number of names on DVD : 100,000 (plus artwork and mission-related Japanese haiku submitted via the Internet)
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HAYABUSA2 (JAXA)
LINK: My Hayabusa2 launch blog
JAXA, Chiba Institute of Technology and collaborators
Launch : December 4, 2014 - Japan Standard Time (JST)
Destinations : Asteroid Ryugu / Earth for sample return / Asteroids (98943) 2001 CC21 and 1998 KY26
Ryugu Arrival : June 27, 2018 - JST
Ryugu Departure : November 13, 2019 - JST
Return to Earth & End of mission (for Sample Return Capsule) : December 6, 2020 - JST
Asteroid (98943) 2001 CC21 Flyby : July 2026
Asteroid 1998 KY26 Rendezvous : July 2031
Number of names inside each target marker (5 total) : Around 180,000
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ORION - EXPLORATION FLIGHT TEST 1 (NASA)
LINK: My Orion EFT-1 launch blog
NASA / Daniel Casper
Launch : December 5, 2014 (7:05 AM, EST)
Destination : High geocentric orbit
Arrival : Peak altitude of 3,600 miles (5,800 kilometers) - December 5, 2014 (10:10 AM, EST)
Splashdown & End of mission : December 5, 2014 (11:29 AM, EST)
Number of names on microchip : 1.4 million
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OSIRIS-REx (NASA)
LINK: My OSIRIS-REx launch blog
NASA / Goddard / University of Arizona
Launch : September 8, 2016
Destinations : Asteroid Bennu / Earth for sample return in 2023 / Asteroid Apophis in 2029
Bennu Arrival : December 3, 2018
Bennu Orbit Insertion : December 31, 2018
Bennu Departure : May 10, 2021
Number of names on two microchips : 440,000 on each chip (One chip is on the sample return capsule and the other is on the main spacecraft)
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TESS (NASA)
LINK: My TESS launch blog
NASA / MIT / TESS
Launch : April 18, 2018
Destination : Highly-elliptical Earth orbit
Arrival : Mid-June 2018
Number of exoplanet illustrations on memory card : Around 1,300
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InSIGHT (NASA)
LINK: My InSight launch blog
NASA / JPL - Caltech
Launch : May 5, 2018
Destination : Mars - Elysium Planitia region
Arrival & landing : November 26, 2018
End of mission : December 21, 2022
Number of names on microchips : 2.4 million
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PARKER SOLAR PROBE (NASA)
LINK: My Parker Solar Probe launch blog
NASA / Naval Research Laboratory / Parker Solar Probe
Launch : August 12, 2018 (3:31 AM, EDT)
Destination : Heliocentric orbit - Sun's corona
First of 24 solar encounters (at perihelion) : November 5, 2018 (10:28 PM, EST)
Number of names on memory card : 1,137,202
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BEPICOLOMBO (ESA / JAXA)
LINK: My BepiColombo launch blog
Astrium
Launch : October 19, 2018 - Pacific Daylight Time
Destination : En route to Mercury
Arrival : December 2025
Number of names and messages on MIO's memory card : 6,494
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LIGHTSAIL 2 (The Planetary Society)
LINK: My LightSail 2 launch blog
The Planetary Society
Launch : June 25, 2019 - EDT
Destination : Low-Earth Orbit
Deployment from Prox-1 carrier vehicle : July 2, 2019
Solar sail deployment : July 23, 2019
End of mission : November 17, 2022
Number of names of Kickstarter backers on mini-DVD : Around 23,300
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MARS 2020 (NASA)
LINK: My Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter launch blog
NASA / JPL - Caltech
Launch : July 30, 2020
Destination : Mars - Jezero Crater - Syrtis Major quadrangle
Arrival & landing : February 18, 2021
First flight of Ingenuity : April 19, 2021
Number of names on microchips : 10.9 million
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CREW DRAGON FREEDOM (SpaceX)
LINK: My Crew-4 Mission launch blog
NASA TV
Launch : April 27, 2022
Destination : Low-Earth orbit / International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Arrival : April 27, 2022
ISS Departure & End of mission : October 14, 2022
Number of DNA samples inside LifeShip's biobank capsule : 2,000 for humans; 500 for plant and animal species
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CREW DRAGON ENDURANCE (SpaceX)
LINK: My Crew-5 ISS arrival blog
NASA TV
Launch : October 5, 2022
Destination : Low-Earth orbit / International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Arrival : October 6, 2022
ISS Departure & End of mission : March 11, 2023
Number of names and DNA samples inside LifeShip's biobank capsule : 10,000 names of people; 500 samples for plant and animal species; a few thousand samples for humans
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ARTEMIS I (NASA / ESA)
LINK: My Space Launch System and Orion launch blog
NASA
Launch : November 16, 2022 (1:47 AM, EST)
Destination : Earth's Moon - Distant retrograde orbit (DRO)
DRO Arrival : November 25, 2022
DRO Departure : December 5, 2022
Splashdown & End of mission : December 11, 2022
Number of names on flash drive : 3.4 million
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