List of planned future spaceflight launches
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.
Orbital launches
[edit]2020s
[edit]2030
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2031
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2032
[edit]2033
[edit]2034 and later
[edit]Deep-space rendezvous
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| Date (UTC) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 2028 | Lucy | Flyby of asteroid 11351 Leucus | Target altitude 1000 km |
| June 2028 | Hayabusa2 | Flyby of Earth[52] | Gravity assist |
| 11 November 2028 | Lucy | Flyby of asteroid 21900 Orus | Target altitude 1000 km |
| 18 January 2029 | JUICE | Third and final gravity assist at Earth | |
| 21 April 2029 | OSIRIS-APEX | Rendezvous with asteroid 99942 Apophis[53] | Observation operations begin 8 April |
| August 2029 | Psyche | Arrival at asteroid 16 Psyche | |
| 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[52] | |
| 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 United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea and China plan to return samples from Mars by around 2031 or 2032.
- A joint NASA/ESA project plans to return samples from Mars by 2033.
- Dragonfly is expected to reach Titan in 2036.
Expected maiden flights
[edit]- Siraya – TASA – Taiwan[citation needed]
- Amur – Roscosmos – Russia
- Tianwen 3 – CASC – China
- Tronador II-250 – CONAE – Argentina – 2029[54]
- Yenisei – Roscosmos – Russia
- Long March 9 – CASC – China
- Ariel Space Mission – UK Space Agency – United Kingdom
- KSLV-III – KARI – South Korea
- NGLV - ISRO - India
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