2019 in spaceflight
Deep-space rendezvous

2019 in spaceflight

Section Title: Deep-space rendezvous
Table Section Text: None

Date (UTC)	Spacecraft	Event	Remarks

1 January	New Horizons	Flyby of Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69

3 January	Chang'e 4	Landing at Von Kármán crater	First landing on the far side of the Moon

12 February	Juno	18th perijove of Jupiter

21 February	Hayabusa2	First sample collection from asteroid Ryugu

4 April	Parker Solar Probe	Second perihelion

4 April	Beresheet	Lunar orbital insertion

5 April	Hayabusa2	Release of Small Carry-On Impactor (SCI) on the surface of asteroid Ryugu and DCAM-3	SCI created a crater for further investigation

6 April	Juno	19th perijove

11 April	Beresheet	Lunar landing	Crashed due to gyroscope failure

29 May	Juno	20th perijove

May	Hayabusa2	Second sample collection from asteroid Ryugu

21 July	Juno	21st perijove

1 September	Parker Solar Probe	Third perihelion

12 September	Juno	22nd perijove

3 November	Juno	23rd perijove

26 December	Parker Solar Probe	Second gravity assist at Venus

26 December	Juno	24th perijove

December	Hayabusa2	Departure from asteroid Ryugu

Sentence(s)

New Horizons encountered the Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69 on January 1st.

final_sentence: New Horizons encountered the Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69 on January 1st.