17th January 2019

2023 – Luna 27 lands on the far side of the Moon

Luna 27 is the second probe, after China's Chang'e 4, to visit the Moon's South Pole–Aitken basin.

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16th January 2019

2022 – Completion of the Northeast Corridor high-speed train upgrade

Avelia Liberty is a new high-speed train service running between Washington, D.C. and Boston. The first trains are introduced in 2021 and the final upgrade is completed in 2022.

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9th January 2019

2021 – Exascale computers are deployed

An exaFLOP is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (a million trillion) floating point operations per second. By 2021, the world's top supercomputers are reaching this speed.

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4th January 2019

2019-2020 – The 5G standard is released

From 2019 to 2020, the next major cellular wireless standard is rolled out, providing vastly improved data transfer speeds.

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3rd January 2019

2019 – The first soft landing on the far side of the Moon

On 3rd January 2019, China achieved the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon.

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3rd January 2019

2019 – The New Horizons probe arrives at Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69

After visiting Pluto in 2015, New Horizons continued onwards to the Kuiper Belt. On 1st January 2019 it encountered the distant object known as 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule.

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2nd January 2019

2019 – The CHEOPS telescope is deployed to study exoplanets

Originally planned for launch in 2017, CHEOPS was delayed until 2018, then delayed yet again until late 2019.

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2nd January 2019

2019 – The Emperor of Japan abdicates

On 30th April 2019, Emperor Akihito of Japan abdicates his position, the first Japanese monarch to do so since 1817.

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2nd January 2019

2019 – Jair Bolsonaro becomes President of Brazil

A polarising and controversial politician, Jair Bolsonaro was elected as President of Brazil in October 2018. His four-year term began on 1st January 2019.

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19th November 2018

2220 – Moore's Law is reaching its physical limit

One of the major technological milestones of the early 23rd century is the creation of a substrate that is the densest and most efficient allowed by the known laws of physics.

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