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Placing the planets

Stellamap: a live 3D map of the solar system, showing every planet, moon, and working spacecraft in its real position right now

Stellamap

Stellamap is a live map of the solar system. Every planet, moon, and working spacecraft is drawn where it actually is right now, and this briefing is the week that put it there.

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-13 Commander Jessica Watkins

CrewUpdated Oct 7

SpaceX Crew-12 undocks from space station to return home

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev are returning to Earth after eight months in orbit.

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