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.

Contents

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).

Space Launch Statistics (1957-2025)


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2025
  •   Failure
  •   Partial failure
  •   Success
  •   Planned

Orbital and Suborbital launches by year

Timelines of Spaceflight
Before 1951 Spaceflight before 1951
1950s 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 [a] 1958 (H1, H2) 1959 (H1, H2)
1960s 1960 (T1, T2, T3) 1961 (H1, H2) 1962 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 1963 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 1964 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 1965 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 (H1, H2) 2019 (H1, (H2)
2020s 2020 2021 (H1, H2) 2022 (H1, H2) 2023 (H1, H2) 2024 (H1, H2) 2025 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 2026 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 2027 2028 2029
After 2029 List of planned future spaceflight launches
  1. First Orbital launch

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 [2]
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

See also

References

  1. "Statement about the Karman Line | World Air Sports Federation". www.fai.org. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  2. "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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