TV Guide for Now Thursday 7 in Pluto TV Space

No spacecraft have traveled so fast or so close to a star before. It is hoped to reveal the source of the solar winds that effect us here on Earth

The New Horizons mission continues deeper into space, it’s next target looming close.

The Japanese Asteroid sample return mission has reached its target and is surveying the space rock ready to dip down and take a sample.

Two new space telescopes are in orbit and completing their shakedown; Gaia and TESS they too will be joined by the James Webb Telescope.

The Latest in Martian exploration from orbit and on the ground, new sources of water and planetary dust storms are a few of the stories unfolding on to the Red Planet.

New heavy lift rockets are taking to the sky. Falcon Heavy, SLS, Arianne 6 and Vega C rockets are primed to begin the next phase of space expansion.

Some of the proof of Einstein’s theories had long been elusive, beyond the capabilities of technology, until now.

We’re looking hard, but the numbers aren’t stacking up, is life on other planets that hard to find? Even signals from an advanced race elude us.

The two current science missions to our star; the sun have made great leaps forward in the science of how stars work, how they generate solar winds and how they affect their orbiting planets

The International drive to return to the Moon is gathering pace, this multi- nation effort is readying to return, stay and utilise the Lunar assets.

The next generation of Earth observation satellites are now in place maintaining the continuity of long-term climate data, in particular the planets rising temperatures and related ocean levels.

Venus is a planet closest to Earth in distance and size, it once may have been as hospitable to life as Earth is now. Then something changed and Venus became shrouded in hot dense toxic clouds.

The ISS is the workhorse of the international spacefaring community, but its days are numbered. R

Asteroids, the debris from the early solar system hold tantalizing clues to planetary formation. The spacecraft Psyche readies to study a unique metallic asteroid.

Juice and the Europa Clipper are two missions to our Solar System’s largest planet.

The James Webb Space Telescope is now operational. Launched aboard an Arianne 5 the 10-billion-dollar spacecraft has deployed successfully and reached its orbit around the Sun.

Imaging a black hole was a breakthrough in astronomy, now with the new satellite IXPE high energy telescope we will be looking at some of the most dramatic, and most violent objects in the universe: Colliding Black holes and Neutron Stars.