Timeline of spaceflight

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This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.

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The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches.

For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line, the FAI-recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL). [1] The timeline contains all the flights which have either crossed the edge of space, were intended to do so but failed, or are planned in the near future. Notable test flights of spaceflight systems may be listed even if they were not planned to reach space. Some lists are further divided into orbital launches (sending a payload into orbit, whether successful or not) and suborbital flights (e.g. ballistic missiles, sounding rockets, experimental spacecraft).

Orbital and Suborbital launches by year

Before 1951

1951-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999

2000-2009

2010-2019

2020-2029

Spaceflight after 2029

Launch Statistics (1957-2024)

Number of successful and unsuccessful orbital launches by country of launch. See or edit source data.

Extracted from launch data. [2]

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  •   Failure
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  •   Success
  •   Planned

Deep-space rendezvous after 2029

Date (UTC)SpacecraftEventRemarks
26 December 2030 Lucy Third gravity assist at EarthTarget altitude 660 km
July 2031Hayabusa2Arrival at asteroid 1998 KY26 [3]
July 2031 JUICE Flyby of Ganymede
July 2031JUICE Jupiter orbit insertion
July 2032JUICEFlyby of Europa
2 March 2033LucyFlyby of binary asteroid 617 Patroclus-Menoetius Target altitude 1000 km
December 2034JUICEGanymede orbit insertionPlanned first orbit of a moon other than Earth's

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References

  1. "Statement about the Karman Line | World Air Sports Federation". www.fai.org. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  2. "Launch log". Jonathans space report. 23 May 2019.
  3. "はやぶさ2、次のミッションは小惑星「1998KY26」…JAXA". The Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 13 September 2020. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
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