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The ispace Resiliencelunar lander mission was scheduled to land on the Moon on 05 June 2025 at 19:17 UT (3:17 p.m. EDT, 4:17 a.m. 06 June JST) in_Mare Frigoris_. Ground controllers lost communication shortly before the landing. It is assumed the spacecraft crashed on the surface. For more, see the ispace news release.

Cosmos 482, a failed Soviet Venus probe launched in 1972 but left stranded in an elliptical Earth orbit that has slowly been decaying, re-entered the atmosphere on 10 May at 6:24 UT. Because the probe was designed to withstand entry into the Venus atmosphere, it may have survived re-entry, but it would have landed in the Indian Ocean.

TheLucymission flew within about 960 km of asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson on 20 April 2025 with closest approach at 17:51 UT (1:51 p.m. EDT). For images from the flyby and more information, seethe Lucy news release.