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

The 2024 list and lists for subsequent years contain planned launches, but statistics 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). The timeline contains all flights which have crossed the edge of space, were intended to do so but failed, or are planned in the near future. Significant 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

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Before 1951

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1951-1959

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1960-1969

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1970-1979

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1980-1989

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1990-1999

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2000-2009

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2010-2019

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2020-2029

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Spaceflight after 2029

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Launch Statistics (1957-2024)

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

Extracted from launch data.[1]

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  •   Failure
  •   Partial failure
  •   Success
  •   Planned

Deep-space rendezvous after 2029

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Date (UTC) Spacecraft Event Remarks
26 December 2030 Lucy Third gravity assist at Earth Target altitude 660 km
July 2031 Hayabusa2 Arrival at asteroid 1998 KY26[2]
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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Launch log". Jonathans space report. 23 May 2019.
  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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