Lagrangian mechanics

Formulation of classical mechanics

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October 23 2025
Deep Space Climate Observatory
AMSAT-DL successfully downloaded EPIC images from DSCOVR.
October 14 2025 Reported groundbreaking findings suggesting the earliest stars may have been 'dark stars' — massive spheres of hydrogen and helium powered by dark matter particle annihilation, potentially explaining the brightness of early galaxies and the formation of early supermassive black holes.
October 12 2025
Deep Space Climate Observatory
The amateur-operated Dwingeloo Radio Observatory received signals from DSCOVR, though no new EPIC images have been published.
September 2025
Objects at Lagrange points
SWFO-L1 satellite launched and in transit to L1 Lagrange point.
September 2025
Objects at Lagrange points
IMAP satellite launched and in transit to L1 Lagrange point.
September 2025 A nearly naked supermassive black hole, designated QS01, was discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope.
July 16 2025
Deep Space Climate Observatory
DSCOVR suffered a software bus anomaly, putting the spacecraft offline without an estimated recovery date.
2025
Objects at Lagrange points
Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) planned for launch at the end of the year to the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point.
March 27 2025 Gaia was decommissioned and passivated after leaving its orbit near L2 and being put into a heliocentric orbit away from Earth's sphere of influence.
March 27 2025 ESA scientists switch off Gaia after more than a decade of service, sending the spacecraft into orbit around the sun and overwriting some of its onboard data.
2025 Mission extended until the end of the year, subject to review and confirmation by ESA's Science Programme Committee.
January 15 2025 Official end of science observations for the Gaia spacecraft.
January 10 2025 Gaia performed its last targeted observation.
December 31 2024
Wind
By the end of the year, Wind had contributed data to over 7,850 scientific publications, demonstrating its long-term scientific value.
November 1 2024
Wind
Wind spacecraft celebrated its 30th anniversary of launch, highlighted in a NASA story about its continued scientific contributions.
May 2024 JWST detected the farthest known black hole merger within the galaxy system ZS7, occurring 740 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting a fast growth rate for black holes through mergers in the young Universe.
May 2024 JWST identified JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant known galaxy, seen 290 million years after the Big Bang with a redshift of 14.32. This discovery was part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) and revealed a galaxy more luminous and massive than expected for its early cosmic period.
May 3 2024
Objects at Lagrange points
Chang'e 6 Service Module launched, arriving at L2 halo orbit on 9 September 2024.
April 2024 A micrometeoroid hit and damaged Gaia's protective cover, creating a gap that allowed stray sunlight to occasionally disrupt its sensitive sensors.
March 25 2024 SOHO-5000 comet discovered by Hanjie Tan, underscoring the satellite's significant role in astronomical discoveries.
January 6 2024
Objects at Lagrange points
Aditya-L1 entered a halo orbit around the L1 Lagrange point to study solar atmosphere and magnetic storms.
January 6 2024
Objects at Lagrange points
Aditya-L1 enters halo orbit around Lagrange point L1 to study solar atmosphere and solar magnetic storms.
January 6 2024
Objects at Lagrange points
Aditya-L1 successfully inserted into orbit around Sun-Earth L1 point.
December 2023 NASA released Christmas holiday-related images from JWST, including the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster and other astronomical scenes.
September 2023 Two astrophysicists questioned the accepted Standard Model of Cosmology based on the latest JWST studies.
September 2 2023
Objects at Lagrange points
Aditya-L1 launched by ISRO, successfully inserted into an orbit about Sun-Earth L1 point on 6 January 2024.
September 2 2023
Objects at Lagrange points
Aditya-L1, an ISRO solar observation mission, successfully launched.
July 12 2023 NASA celebrated the first year of Webb telescope operations by releasing an image of a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, located 390 light years away.
July 1 2023
Objects at Lagrange points
Euclid space telescope launched by ESA and NASA.
June 2023 Detection of organic molecules 12 billion light-years away in the galaxy SPT0418-47 using the Webb telescope was announced.
May 10 2023 Cycle 2 General Observer (GO) program was announced by the Space Telescope Science Institute.
March 2023 The Gaia mission was extended through the second quarter of 2025.
February 21 2023
Wind
Wind review paper published in Reviews of Geophysics was awarded as a Top Cited Article 2021-2022 by the journal.
2022 NASA releases an investigation report finding no direct evidence linking James Webb to discriminatory actions during the Lavender Scare.
November 1 2022
Wind
Wind spacecraft celebrated its 28th anniversary of launch.
October 13 2022
Wind
Wind/KONUS data helped detect one of the strongest/brightest gamma-ray burst events on record.
September 2022 Scientists proposed primordial black holes as an explanation for unexpectedly large and early galaxies observed by Webb.
August 24 2022 A mechanism supporting medium-resolution spectroscopy (MRS) exhibited increased friction during setup for a science observation, specifically involving the grating wheel used to select wavelengths.
August 17 2022 NASA released a large mosaic image of 690 individual frames captured by Webb's NIRCam, showcasing numerous very early galaxies.
July 2022 Gregory L. Robinson retires after completing the telescope's commissioning process and after 33 years at NASA.
July 14 2022 NASA presented infrared images of Jupiter and related areas captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
July 12 2022 First full-color images and spectroscopic data were officially released, marking the beginning of Webb's general science operations. Images included the Carina Nebula, WASP-96b, Southern Ring Nebula, Stephan's Quintet, and SMACS J0723.3-7327 galaxy cluster.
July 11 2022 The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) completed its commissioning and was officially ready to begin full scientific operations, marking a significant milestone in space exploration and astronomical research.
July 11 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden revealed Webb's First Deep Field image, marking a significant public unveiling of the telescope's capabilities.
July 11 2022 The telescope's first image was released to the public.
June 8 2022 NASA reported the micrometeoroid strike, noting that engineers compensated for the impact using a mirror actuator. Despite the strike, NASA confirmed all telescope observing modes remained ready for scientific use.
May 23 2022 The Webb telescope's C3 mirror segment experienced a significant micrometeoroid strike from a large dust mote-sized particle between May 23-25, which was the fifth and largest strike since launch.
February 18 2022 Phase 1 alignment was officially completed, with the telescope's mirror segments beginning to work towards unified operation.
February 11 2022 NASA announced the telescope had nearly completed phase 1 of alignment, with all primary mirror segments having located and imaged the target star HD 84406, and brought into approximate alignment.

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