This article lists planned future orbital and suborbital spaceflight launches and events.
For an overview of spaceflight in the near future, see 2020s in spaceflight.
| Date (UTC) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2030 | Europa Clipper | Jupiter orbit insertion | |
| 26 December 2030 | Lucy | Third gravity assist at Earth | Target altitude 660 km |
| July 2031 | Hayabusa2 | Arrival at asteroid 1998 KY26 [55] | |
| July 2031 | JUICE | Flyby of Ganymede | |
| July 2031 | JUICE | Jupiter orbit insertion | |
| July 2032 | JUICE | Flyby of Europa | |
| 2 March 2033 | Lucy | Flyby of binary asteroid 617 Patroclus-Menoetius | Target altitude 1000 km |
| December 2034 | JUICE | Ganymede orbit insertion | Planned first orbit of a moon other than Earth's |
The Angara rocket family is a family of launch vehicles being developed by the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center. The launch vehicles are to put between 3,800 kg (8,400 lb) and 24,500 kg (54,000 lb) into low Earth orbit and are intended, along with Soyuz-2 variants, to replace several existing launch vehicles.
ExoMars is an astrobiology programme of the European Space Agency (ESA).
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This article documents notable spaceflight events during the year 2019.
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This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the 2020s.
The year 2022 witnessed the number of launches of SpaceX's Falcon rocket family surpassing the CNSA's Long March rocket family, making the United States the country with the highest number of launches in 2022 instead of China. This year also featured the first successful launch of Long March 6A, Nuri, Angara 1.2, Vega C, Kinetica-1, and Jielong-3. National space agencies' activities in this year was also affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which led to tensions between Roscosmos and Western space agencies, leading to threats of ending collaboration on the International Space Station (ISS), and resulting in several delays on various space missions.
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Spektr-M is a proposed Russian scientific satellite with a 10 m (33 ft) sub-millimeter to far infrared space telescope. It is designed to be a successor to the Herschel Space Observatory, covering similar wave bands, and to look into chemical evolution in the universe, black hole horizon radiation, and dark energy investigation. Spacecraft design documentation and prototyping is currently underway and expected to continue until 2023. Due to budget cuts in 2019, launch is not expected until 2030.
This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2026.
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This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2027.
This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2028.
Angara A5, is a Russian expendable heavy lift launch vehicle which consists of one URM-1 core and four URM-1 boosters, a 3.6-metre (12 ft) URM-2 second stage, and an upper stage, either the Briz-M, Blok DM-03 or the KVTK. Weighing 773 tonnes (1,704,000 lb) at lift-off, Angara A5 has a payload capacity of 24.5 tonnes (54,000 lb) to a 200 km (120 mi) x 60° orbit. Angara A5 is able to deliver 5.4 tonnes (12,000 lb) to GTO with Briz-M, or 7.5 tonnes (17,000 lb) to the same orbit with KVTK.
This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2029.
