Method
How this section is put together, where the information comes from, and what it is not.
What this is
A hobby. I am a science and space enthusiast: I follow interplanetary missions and large research facilities and keep notes on them; this section publishes those notes in English. I am not involved in any of the missions listed, and none of the pages is written on behalf of an agency, a collaboration or an employer.
The one facility I am connected to is European XFEL, where I work on detector electronics. That page, too, is my personal summary of public information and does not speak for the company. What I work on myself is on the Projects page.
How it is compiled
The notes live in two knowledge bases, one for missions and one for facilities. Updates are gathered with the help of an AI research assistant that follows fixed rules, and the pages here are translated into English from those notes. Each mission and facility page shows when it was last checked.
- Every statement links to the specific page it comes from, not to a home page.
- Agencies, laboratories and collaborations come first, then journals and specialist media, then aggregators and Wikipedia.
- When sources give different dates, the page says so and names both.
- A planned event is only marked as done after a report from after the event. Until then: "planned", "expected", or "≈" for an estimate.
- A preprint is called a preprint until it is published.
- Times are in UTC.
Errors are still possible. The linked source always takes precedence; if you spot a mistake, I would be glad to hear about it through the contact form.
Main sources
- Space agencies: NASA Science, ESA, JAXA/ISAS, CNSA
- Laboratories and collaborations: the official site linked on each facility page, for example CERN, DESY, SLAC, ESS and the LVK observing plans
- Papers: journals through DOI, preprints through arXiv
- Specialist media: Planetary Society, Physics World, CERN Courier, lightsources.org, SpaceNews, Spaceflight Now
- Launch dates: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs
What it is not
Not official, not complete and not real-time. Missions and facilities are chosen by personal interest. Mention of an organisation is not an endorsement, and links lead to sites I do not control.