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These space missions will take off in 2025

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China 's Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe probe mission.

The European Space Agency , or ESA , plans to conduct an orbital test flight of its Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in the third quarter of 2025 .

In February 2025 , NASA plans to launch the Spectro -Photometer for the History of the Universe , Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer , or SPHEREx, observatory.

Tianwen-2 will study the main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS.

By analyzing the comet's materials, researchers hope to learn more about the conditions that existed in the early solar system.

Several space agencies plan to perform exciting deep-space flyby missions in 2025 .