| Date Time (UTC) |
Mission/Event | Description | Launch Vehicle | Agency |
| Sep-24-2010 18:45 |
Cassini | Titan flyby (8,175 km) -- T-72: During this high altitude flyby (8,175 kilometers at closest approach), VIMS will map an equatorial region of the trailing hemisphere known as Belet at a resolution of 5 kilometers per pixel. This mosaic will complement the mosaics that will be obtained during T-66 and T-67. Then VIMS will perform a global mapping of Titan looking for clouds at northern mid-latitudes and near the poles. ISS will ride along with VIMS throughout. | NASA | |
| Oct-2010 | Chang'e 2 | Chang'e-2's main mission is to obtain clearer and more detailed image data from the lunar surface and lunar polar areas. The CCD camera it will carry is of much higher resolution compared to Chang'e-1. | Long March 3C | CNSA |
| Nov-04-2010 | EPOXI | The Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization and Deep Impact Extended Investigation (EPOXI) will do a flyby of comet Hartley 2, which has never been explored.
Mission Status
Jun-28-2010 This past weekend, our spacecraft flew past Earth. Closest approach was at approximately 22:04 UTC on 27 Jun at a geocentric distance of 0.000246 AU or approximately 36,860 km. The purpose of this flyby was to retarget the spacecraft onto its final trajectory to comet 103P/Hartley 2. Data are expected beginning later today that will be analyzed to determine how accurately we achieved our goal but our general experience is that nearly all the maneuvers with this spacecraft, both simple thruster maneuvers in deep space and gravity assists, have all gone with high precision. The new orbit, which will change slightly but not much due to subsequent maneuvers to optimize the flyby, has an orbital period of about 14 months, with perihelia near Earth's orbit. The details of the flyby of comet Hartley 2 will be set up in subsequent maneuvers, but the nominal distance of closest approach is 700 km at several minutes before 14:00 UTC on 4 November. Meanwhile, the science team and the operations team are busy studying the planned observations at encounter to ensure that everything will execute properly and return the scientific results that we are aiming for. Observations of the comet will begin on 5 September, 2 months prior to closest approach, and continue through 25 November, 3 weeks after closest approach. A routine recalibration of the instruments after the flyby will be the last scientific activity on this mission. Since all of the observations are pre-programmed, with simple commands from the ground to start long sequences, everything must be thoroughly tested on simulators on the ground (we have such testbeds both at JPL and at Ball Aerospace) to wring out all the little things that can go wrong. The science team is also working very hard to obtain the best possible calibration of the instruments, which will enable us to obtain higher quality data at Hartley 2 than we were able to obtain at comet Tempel 1 and also to recalibrate the data from comet Tempel 1. |
NASA | |
| Nov-11-2010 13:45 |
Cassini | Titan flyby (7,921 km) -- T-73: CAPS and CIRS share this flyby. | NASA | |
| Nov-19-2010 (NET) | NanoSail-D | One objective of the NanoSail-D project is to demonstrate the capability to pack and deploy a large sail structure from a highly compacted volume. This demonstration can be applied to deploy future communication antennas, sensor arrays or thin film solar arrays to power the spacecraft. NanoSail-D will be deployed 645 kilometers up after it's launched this fall aboard a Minotaur IV rocket, part of the payload aboard the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT. The relatively low-deployment altitude means drag from Earth's atmosphere may dominate any propulsive power it gains from the sun, but the project represents a small first step toward eventually deploying solar sails at much higher altitudes. | Minotaur IV (Secondary Payload) | NASA |
| Nov-22-2010 10:09 |
Glory | Glory is a remote-sensing Earth-orbiting observatory designed to achieve two separate mission objectives. One is to collect data on the chemical, microphysical, and optical properties, and spatial and temporal distributions of aerosols. The other is to continue collection of total solar irradiance data for the long-term climate record.
Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report
Aug-27-2010 The Taurus rocket is in Orbital Sciences Hangar 1555 located on north Vandenberg Air Force Base where integration and testing of the vehicle's flight hardware components continue. The Vehicle Verification Test, a test milestone in Taurus processing, was conducted on Aug. 25 and was fully successful. Testing is under way on the first half of the payload fairing that arrived at Vandenberg on Aug. 17. Stage 2 telemetry testing continues and is expected to conclude today. Testing of the Taurus flight computer has been completed. Stages 1, 2 and 3 are currently scheduled to be mated together during the second week of September. On Stage 0, mechanical work and thermal blanket installation are continuing. The Glory spacecraft currently is scheduled to arrive at Vandenberg on or about Oct. 13 to begin processing for launch. |
Taurus XL | NASA |
| Nov-30-2010 11:58 |
Cassini | Enceladus flyby (51 km) -- E-12: On this flyby, paired with one on April 28, Cassini Radio Science tracks Enceladus through a close flyby to determine the nature of the interior right under the hot spot. | NASA | |
| Nov-2010 | RadioAstron (Spektr-R) | RadioAstron project is an international collaborative mission to launch a free flying satellite carrying a 10-meter radio telescope in high apogee orbit around the Earth. The aim of the mission is to use the space telescope to conduct interferometer observations in conjunction with the global ground radio telescope network in order to obtain images, coordinates, motions and evolution of angular structure of different radio emitting objects in the Universe with the extraordinary high angular resolution.
RadioAstron Status
Jan-01-2010 The RadioAstron spacecraft is undergoing the final assembly and tests in the Lavochkin Association. The launch is preliminary planned to happen in June 2010 from Baikonur (Kazakhstan). The Zenit-2 rocket and Fregat-SB booster will be used. Building of the tracking station in Pushchino on the basis of the 22-meter antennae is finished, tests are undergoing. The hard disc based RadioAstron data recording (RDR) system and the RadioAstron software correlator located in Astro Space Center are built and tested successfully -- interferometric fringes are found. Ground-based VLBI tests with RadioAstron observing modes involving RDR and RadioAstron software correlator will continue. Meanwhile international teams of scientists led by the Mission are preparing the fringe search and early science programs. Documents describing these programs as well as announcements of opportunities for observing with the RadioAstron spacecraft are to be announced at a later point. |
Zenit-3SLBF Fregat-SB | ASC / Roscosmos |
| Dec-21-2010 01:12 |
Cassini | Enceladus flyby (51 km) -- E-13: The Cassini spacecraft makes a 50-kilometer pass over the north pole of Enceladus. The fields and particles instruments will be trying to "sniff" anything coming from the moon. | NASA | |
| Dec-2010 (TBC) | LARES and 9 Cubesats | Inaugural launch and maiden flight of ESA's new small launcher Vega, from Europe's Spaceport (CSG), French Guiana. LARES is a laser relativity satellite for the study of the Earth gravitational field and general relativity measurements. Cubesats: UNICubeSAT (Italy), est@r (Italy), AtmoCube (Italy), Swisscube (Switzerland), Xatcobeo (Spain), Robusta (France), OUFTI-1 (Belgium), PWsat (Poland) and Goliat (Romania). | Vega | ESA / Various |
| Jan-11-2011 04:57 |
Cassini | Rhea flyby (201 km) -- R-3. | NASA | |
| Feb-15-2011 04:42 |
Stardust-NExT | New Exploration of Tempel 1 (NExT) mission will reuse NASA's Stardust spacecraft to revisit comet Tempel 1. This investigation will provide the first look at the changes to a comet nucleus produced after its close approach to the sun.
Mission Status
Aug-25-2010 All subsystems are nominal. Thermal engineers continue to closely monitor all component temperatures, as the spacecraft is less than 1 AU (approximately 90,000,000 miles) from the Sun. Propulsion engineering reports that daily fuel consumption is approximately 4.3 grams per day, and indicates smooth and efficient thruster control. The team is currently focused on testing of the Encounter sequence, and is working to detail the attitude profile through the February 2011 encounter. |
NASA | |
| Feb-18-2011 16:04 |
Cassini | Titan flyby (3640 km) -- T-74. | NASA | |
| Mar-18-2011 11:31 |
MESSENGER | MESSENGER Mercury orbit insertion. | NASA | |
| Mar-31-2011 | LISA Pathfinder | LISA Pathfinder (also known as SMART-2, for 'Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology') aims to test several technologies critical for the subsequent joint ESA/NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. The LISA mission is one proposed for ESA's Cosmic Vision Program.
Magnetic moment testing of LISA Pathfinder flight-model units
Nov-10-2009 Flight-model units for the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft are undergoing a series of tests to determine their magnetic characteristics. The purpose of the tests is to ensure that the stringent magnetic cleanliness requirements of the LISA Pathfinder mission will be met. Read more. |
Vega | ESA / NASA |
| 2Q-2011 (NET) | Lightsail-1 | LightSail-1 -- the first of The Planetary Society's three spacecraft -- will demonstrate that sunlight alone can propel a spacecraft in Earth orbit. | TBD (Secondary Payload) | The Planetary Society |
| Apr-19-2011 05:10 |
Cassini | Titan flyby (9996 km) -- T-75. | NASA | |
| Apr-2011 | SAC-D / Aquarius | Aquarius is a focused satellite mission to measure global sea surface salinity (SSS). | Delta II 7320-10 | NASA |
| May-08-2011 22:52 |
Cassini | Titan flyby (1862 km) -- T-76. | NASA | |
| Jun-18-2011 19:54 |
Cassini | Helene flyby (1807 km). | NASA | |
| Jun-20-2011 18:40 |
Cassini | Titan flyby (1383 km) -- T-77. | NASA | |
| Jul-2011 | Dawn | Vesta arrival.
New Software Installed in Main Computer
Jul-30-2010 The spacecraft has now accomplished so much thrusting that it has accelerated by more than 10,000 mph over the course of the mission. As it continues to recede from the sun, it has passed 2.0 astronomical units, or twice Earth's average distance from the sun. The week of July 19 was designated for coasting. Mission controllers used this time to operate each of the science instruments and proved all of them are in excellent health. A minor bug was corrected in the software in the cameras. Engineers also stored two copies of the new version of the software for the spacecraft's main computer in the spacecraft's backup computer. The operations team successfully tested the procedures they will use for refining sequences of commands when Dawn is completing its approach to the first science orbit around Vesta in August 2011. |
NASA | |
| Aug-05-2011 | Juno | The mission proposes to place a spacecraft in a polar orbit around Jupiter to investigate the existence of an ice-rock core; determine the amount of global water and ammonia present in the atmosphere; study convection and deep wind profiles in the atmosphere; investigate the origin of the jovian magnetic field; and explore the polar magnetosphere. | Atlas V 551 | NASA |
| Sep-08-2011 | GRAIL | The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail. The mission also will answer longstanding questions about Earth's moon and provide scientists a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system formed. | Delta II 2920-10 | NASA |
| Sep-12-2011 02:49 |
Cassini | Titan flyby (5941 km) -- T-78. | NASA | |
| Oct-01-2011 13:54 |
Cassini | Enceladus flyby (49 km) -- E-14. | NASA | |
| Oct-19-2011 09:23 |
Cassini | Enceladus flyby (1208 km) -- E-15. | NASA | |
| Nov-06-2011 04:59 |
Cassini | Enceladus flyby (49 km) -- E-16. | NASA | |
| Nov-08-2011 | Phobos-Grunt | This mission's objectives are to collect soil samples from Phobos, a satellite of Mars and to bring the samples back to Earth for comprehensive scientific research into Phobos, Mars and Martian space. | Zenit-3F Fregat | Roscosmos |
| Nov-08-2011 | Yinghuo-1 | The main scientific objectives include: (1) detailed investigation of the plasma environment and magnetic field; (2) study of Martian ion escape processes and possible mechanisms; (3) ionosphere occultation measurements between Yinghou-1 and Phobos-Grunt focusing on the sub-solar and midnight regions; and (4) observation of sand storms. | Zenit Fregat (Secondary Payload) | CNSA |
| Nov-25-2011- Dec-18-2011 |
MSL Curiosity | Twice as long and three times as heavy as the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity will collect martian soil samples and rock cores and analyze them for organic compounds and environmental conditions that could have supported microbial life now or in the past. | Atlas V 541 | NASA |
| Dec-12-2011 09:38 |
Cassini | Dione flyby (199 km) -- D-3. | NASA | |
| Dec-13-2011 20:07 |
Cassini | Titan flyby (3763 km) -- T-79. | NASA | |
| 2011 | ADM-Aeolus | The Atmospheric Dynamics Mission (ADM-Aeolus) will provide global observations of three-dimensional wind fields. | Vega | ESA |
| 2011 | ASTROSAT | ASTROSAT will be a multi-wavelength astronomy mission in a 650-km, near-equatorial orbit. | PSLV | ISRO |
| Feb-03-2012 (TBC) | NuSTAR | NuSTAR will be the first focusing hard X-ray telescope in orbit. Its design eliminates high detector backgrounds, allows true imaging, and permits the use of compact high performance detectors. | Pegasus XL | NASA |
| 1Q-2012 | Gaia | Gaia is a global space astrometry mission. Its goal is to make the largest, most precise map of our Galaxy by surveying an unprecedented number of stars - more than a thousand million.
First Gaia mirrors completed
Jan-11-2010 The Gaia project recently passed another major milestone with the completion of one-third of the nine payload mirrors. Final acceptance for the M5 and two M4 mirrors was granted by Delivery Review Boards conducted at the premises of Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS) in Liege, Belgium, towards the end of 2009. Read more. |
Soyuz-STB/Fregat | ESA |
| Early-2012 | Swarm | Swarm is a constellation of three magnetometry satellites that will provide the best ever survey of the geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution. | Rockot | ESA |
| May-31-2012 | RBSP | The Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission will determine how varying inputs of solar energy form or change populations of relativistic electrons and ions in the Earth's radiation belts. | Atlas V | NASA |
| Jun-2012 | Proba-3 | Proba-3 will demonstrate the technologies required for formation flying of multiple spacecraft. An instrument to observe the solar corona will complement the demonstration. | Vega | ESA |
| Jul-2012 | Dawn | Vesta departure. | NASA | |
| Mid-2012 | SELENE-2 | SELENE-2 is a proposed Japanese moon lander as a successor to the SELENE (Kaguya) moon orbiter. | H-IIA | JAXA |
| Oct-2012 | Microscope | Microscope (MICRO-Satellite a trainee Compensee pour l'Observation du Principe d'Equivalence) is the third microsatellite of the CNES Myriade series. The main scientific objective is testing of the Equivalence Principle with a 100 times better accuracy than realised with experiments on Earth. | Dnepr | CNES |
| Dec-01-2012 | IRIS | The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission will use a solar telescope and spectrograph to explore the solar chromospheres. This is a crucial region for understanding energy transport into the solar wind and an archetype for stellar atmospheres. Recent discoveries have shown the chromosphere is significantly more dynamic and structured than previously thought. The unique instrument capabilities, coupled with state of the art 3-D modeling, will explore this dynamic region in detail. The mission will greatly extend the scientific output of existing heliophysics spacecraft that follow the effects of energy release processes from the sun to Earth. | Pegasus XL | NASA |
| 2012 | Spektr-RG | "Spektr-Rentgen-Gamma" (Spectrum-X-Gamma) will help scientists to discover 100 thousands of various galaxies and help solve the mystery of the dark matter. | Soyuz Fregat | Roscosmos |
| 2012 (NET) | HAYABUSA-2 | JAXA is now considering a mission named Hayabusa-2 This is a similar mission as Hayabusa that will return samples of surface from an asteroid to the earth. Target asteroid, however, is different. Asteroid Itokawa explored by Hayabusa is rock-rich S-type one. Asteroid that Hayabusa-2 will visit at is a C-type asteroid. The asteroid currently considered as a target of Hayabusa-2 is Asteroid 1999 JU3. C-type asteroids are also rocky, but it is thought that their rocks contain much more organic matters. Hayabusa-2 will challenge very interesting objectives: what are original organic matters existed in the solar system?; and how they are related to life? | TBD | JAXA |
| Feb-2013 | OCO-2 | The Orbiting Carbon Observatory Replacement (OCO-2) is a NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder Project (ESSP) mission designed to make precise, time-dependent global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from an Earth orbiting satellite. On February 24, 2009, OCO failed to reach orbit. | Taurus XL 3110 | NASA |
| Mar-07-2013 (NET) | LADEE | The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) will study the tenuous atmosphere of the Moon. | Minotaur-IV+ | NASA |
| Mar-2013 | EarthCARE | EarthCARE (Earth, Clouds, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer) is a joint European-Japanese mission, which is to address the need for a better understanding of the interactions between cloud, radiative and aerosol processes that play a role in climate regulation. | TBD | ESA / JAXA |
| Q1-2013 | Chandrayaan-2 | The Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission involves a lunar orbiting spacecraft and a Russian lander/rover on the Moon's surface. | GSLV | ISRO / Roscosmos |
| Jul-2013 | GPM Core | Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) will measure global precipitation, a key climate factor. Its science objectives are: to improve ongoing efforts to predict climate by providing near-global measurement of precipitation, its distribution, and physical processes; to improve the accuracy of weather and precipitation forecasts through more accurate measurement of rain rates and latent heating; and to provide more frequent and complete sampling of the Earth's precipitation. | H-IIA | NASA / JAXA |
| Mid-2013 | Jason-3 | The Jason-3 operational oceanographic mission involves a quadripartite collaboration between the two meteorological organisations EUMETSAT and NOAA, acting as the leaders of the programme, and CNES and NASA. Covering all ice-free ocean surfaces, Jason-3 will ensure the continuity of high precision ocean topography measurements beyond TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2, which are now operational in orbit. Moreover, Jason-3 will offer the same measurement accuracy as Jason-2, including near coastal zones as well as lakes and rivers. | TBD | CNES / NASA |
| Late-2013 (NET) | ESMO | The European Student Moon Orbiter (ESMO) is planned to be the first European student mission to the Moon. | TBD (Secondary Payload) | ESA |
| Nov-18-2013 | MAVEN | The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) will explore the planet's upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind. | EELV | NASA |
| 2013 | GOLD | The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission of opportunity is an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph that will fly on a geostationary satellite to measure densities and temperatures in the thermosphere and ionosphere. | TBD | NASA |
| 2013 | Taranis | The general objective of the Taranis mission is to study magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere coupling via transient processes. At the beginning of the project proposal, the transient processes considered were essentially sprites and their associated phenomena, hence the name Taranis (Tool for the Analysis of RAdiation from lightNIng and Sprites). | TBD | CNES |
| 2013 | SPRINT-A | SPRINT-A is a telescope in a 480 kilometers high Earth orbit to observe Venus, Mars and Jupiter. | Epsilon | JAXA |
| 2013 (NET) | VSOP-2 / ASTRO-G | The mission will focus on observations in the millimeter wave-band that enables the imaging of objects directly with the best resolution. This will allow studies of fields where extreme space physical conditions are encountered, including the elucidation of "the scale of the accretion disk and jet generation and acceleration region surrounding the active galactic nuclei black holes." | H-IIA | JAXA |
| 2013 | Luna-Glob | Russian lunar orbiter. | Soyuz Fregat | Roscosmos |
| 2013 (NET) | World Space Observatory (Spektr-UF) | The aim of the World Space Observatory/Ultraviolet - WSO/UV mission is to study the Universe in the 100 - 320 nm ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths range, which is beyond the reach of ground-based instruments. WSO-UV is a major international collaboration involving researchers from 16 countries with Russia playing the leading role. | Zenit-3M Fregat-SB | Roscosmos |
| 2013 | Chang'e 3 | Lunar soft lander. | Long March 3B | CNSA |
| TBD | PROBA-V | PROBA-V (Project for On-Board Autonomy - Vegetation) will carry a vegetation multispectral sensor to monitor vegetation cover. | TBD | ESA |
| Feb-2014 | ASTRO-H | Science payloads consists of Hard X-ray Telescope, Soft X-ray Telscope (spectrometer and imager), and a Soft Gamma-ray detector. | H-IIA | JAXA |
| Apr-2014 | GEMS | GEMS will use an X-ray telescope to explore the shape of space that has been distorted by a spinning black hole's gravity, and probe the structure and effects of the formidable magnetic field around magnetars, dead stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's. | TBD | NASA |
| May-2014 | Rosetta | Rosetta arrival at Comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Flyby of asteroid (21) Lutetia Jul-14-2010 Report for Period 5 July to 10 July 2010 On 10 July 2010 (DOY 191) at 15:44:57 UTC, Rosetta successfully flew past asteroid (21) Lutetia at a distance of 3160 km and with a relative speed of 15 km/s. The spectacular flyby manoeuvre was conducted as planned with the spacecraft autonomously tracking the asteroid. Read more. |
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| Jun-2014 | JWST | The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope. It will have an 18-segment, 6.5-meter primary mirror and will reside in an L2 Lissajous orbit. | Ariane 5 ECA | NASA / ESA / CSA |
| Jul-2014 | BepiColombo | ESA's Cornerstone mission to Mercury, it will endure extreme temperatures to bring us new images and data about composition and history of the least explored planet in the inner Solar System. BepiColombo consists of two orbiters. Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) will observe the surface and interior, built by ESA. Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) will observe the magnetic field and the magnetosphere, built by JAXA. | Soyuz Fregat | ESA / JAXA |
| Oct-15-2014 | MMS | Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) consist of four identical spacecraft flying in formation studying the solar magnetosphere. | Atlas V | NASA |
| Nov-2014 | Rosetta | Philae landing on Comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. | ESA | |
| Nov-2014 | GPM-LIO | Global Precipitation Monitor Low-Inclination Orbiter (GPM-LIO) will measure global precipitation, a key climate factor. Its science objectives are: to improve ongoing efforts to predict climate by providing near-global measurement of precipitation, its distribution, and physical processes; to improve the accuracy of weather and precipitation forecasts through more accurate measurement of rain rates and latent heating; and to provide more frequent and complete sampling of the Earth's precipitation. | TBD | NASA |
| 2014 | Hayabusa 2 | The target body of Hayabusa-2 is a C-type asteroid, considered to contain more organic or hydrated materials than S-type asteroids like Itokawa. | H-2A or H-2B | JAXA |
| 2014 | Chang'e 4 | Automated sample return. | Long March 5 (CZ-5/E) | CNSA |
| Feb-2015 | Dawn | Ceres arrival. | NASA | |
| May-29-2015 | SMAP | The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission will enable global soil moisture mapping with unprecedented resolution, sensitivity, area coverage, and revisit. SMAP draws heavily upon the heritage of the Hydrosphere State (Hydros) mission which was cancelled due to budget constraints in late 2005. | Minotaur IV | NASA |
| May-2015 | Discovery-12 | A Discovery Program mission in pre-formulation phase. | TBD | NASA |
| Jul-14-2015 11:59 |
New Horizons | New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission arrival at Pluto. | NASA | |
| Oct-2015 | GOES-R | GOES-R series is being developed to replace GOES N/O/P series of satellites. | Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) | NASA / NOAA |
| 2015 | MoonLITE | The Moon Lightweight Interior and Telecoms Experiment (MoonLITE), is a proposed British space mission with NASA cooperation to explore the Moon. | TBD | BNSC |
| 2015 (NET) | SAFIR | The Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory (SAFIR) is a large cryogenic space-based telescope optimized for observations in the mid-infrared to submillimeter wavelength range. | TBD | NASA |
| Feb-2016 | ICESat-II | The ICESat-II mission is to deploy an ICESat follow-on satellite to continue the assessment of polar ice changes. ICESat-II is also expected to measure vegetation canopy heights, allowing estimates of biomass and carbon in aboveground vegetation in conjunction with related missions. | TBD | NASA |
| 2016 | ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and EDL Demonstrator | The first mission within the ESA-NASA ExoMars Programme, scheduled to arrive at Mars in 2016, consists of an Orbiter plus an Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM). The main objectives of this mission are to search for evidence of methane, and other trace gases, in the Martian atmosphere and to test key technologies in preparation for ESA's contribution to a 2020 international mission. | Atlas V 421 | ESA / NASA |
| 2016 | Earth Explorer 7 | Three missions undergoing feasibility studies; BIOMASS, CoReH2O and PREMIER. One will be selected in 2011. | TBD | ESA |
| 2016 | Millimetron | The goal of the project is to construct space observatory operating in millimeter, sub-millimeter and infrared wavelength ranges using 12-m cryogenic telescope in a single-dish mode and as an interferometer with the space-ground and space-space baselines (the later after the launch of the second identical space telescope). The observatory will provide possibility to conduct astronomical observations with super high sensitivity (down to nanoJansky level) in a single dish mode, and observations with super high angular resolution in an interferometric mode. | Proton | ASC / Roscosmos |
| 2016 | Venera-D | Venus lander planned to survive from 2 months to 1 year on the surface. | Soyuz Fregat | Roscosmos |
| 2016 | Mars-NET | The mission will carry 10 15-kilogram landers and three 55-kilogram penetrators to be deployed around the surface of Mars for a long-duration studies of the Red Planet. | Soyuz Fregat | Roscosmos |
| Feb-2017 | GOES-S | GOES-S series is being developed to replace GOES N/O/P series of satellites. | Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) | NASA / NOAA |
| Apr-2017 | JDEM | The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) will make precise measurements of the expansion rate of the universe to understand how this rate has changed with time. These measurements will yield vital clues about the nature of dark energy. | TBD | NASA / DoE |
| Oct-16-2017 | Juno | Jupiter impact. | NASA | |
| 2017 | SIM Lite | SIM Lite (Space Interferometry Mission Lite) will determine the positions and distances of stars several hundred times more accurately than any previous program. This accuracy will allow SIM to determine the distances to stars throughout the galaxy and to probe nearby stars for Earth-sized planets. | Atlas V 531 | NASA |
| 2017 | New Frontiers 3 | Three missions currently in assessment phase: SAGE, Osiris-Rex and MoonRise. The final project to be selected in mid-2011. | TBD | NASA |
| 2017 | Discovery-13 | A Discovery Program mission in pre-formulation phase. | TBD | NASA |
| 2017 | Cosmic Vision M-class #1 | Launch slot 1 for ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 M-class mission. The M-class missions currently in assessment phase are PLATO, Solar Orbiter and SPICA. Down-selection in mid-2011. | TBD | ESA |
| Aug-2018 | Solar Probe+ | Solar Probe+ will fly into one of the last unexplored regions of the solar system, the Sun's atmosphere or corona, for the first time. Approaching as close as 3 RS above the Sun's surface, Solar Probe+ will employ a combination of in-situ measurements and imaging to achieve the mission's primary scientific goal: to understand how the Sun's corona is heated and how the solar wind is accelerated. | Atlas V 551 | NASA |
| 2018 | Earth Explorer 8 | ESA's Earth Observation Programme mission launch slot. | TBD | ESA |
| 2018 | SELENE-3 | SELENE-3 moon mission in formulation phase. | TBD | JAXA |
| 2018 | Cosmic Vision M-class #2 | Launch slot 2 for ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 M-class mission. The M-class missions currently in assessment phase are PLATO, Solar Orbiter and SPICA. Down-selection in mid-2011. | TBD | ESA |
| 2018 | OSIRIS | OSIRIS is a Russian space optical interferometer project. The goal of the project is to measure parallaxes, coordinates and proper motions of stars with an accuracy of few microarcseconds. | TBD | Roscosmos |
| 2018 | Mars 2018 NASA Rover | "Mars 2018 NASA Rover" mission under study. To be launched together with ESA's ExoMars Programme Rover. | TBD | NASA / ESA |
| 2018 | ExoMars Programme Rover | The ExoMars Rover provides key mission capabilities: surface mobility, subsurface drilling and automatic sample collection, processing, and distribution to instruments. It hosts a suite of analytical instruments dedicated to exobiology and geochemistry research. The 2018 mission is a NASA-led mission and includes two rovers, one European and the other American. Both rovers will be transported in the same aeroshell and will be delivered to the same site on Mars. | TBD | NASA / ESA |
| 2018 (NET) | ILN | International Lunar Network (ILN), aims to provide an organizing theme for all landed science missions in the 2010s by involving each landed station as a node in a network of geophysical stations (Nodes I, II, III & IV). | TBD | NASA |
| 2020 | LISA | Detecting gravitational waves is the goal of ESA's future LISA mission. LISA will search for gravitational radiation from astronomical sources, testing the fundamental theories of gravitation. ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 L-class mission concept. | TBD | ESA / NASA |
| 2020 | Discovery-14 | A Discovery Program mission in pre-formulation phase. | TBD | NASA |
| 2020 | JEO | The Jupiter Europa Orbiter's (JEO) main focus is to explore Europa to investigate its habitability. While the primary focus of JEO is to orbit Europa, the science return encompasses the entire Jovian system, especially as is relevant to Europa's potential habitability. JEO uniquely includes flybys of Io and Europa, and includes flybys of Ganymede and Callisto, along with about 2.5 years observing Jupiter's atmosphere, magnetosphere, and rings. | TBD | NASA |
| 2020 | JGO | Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (JGO) will focus on its three science sub-goals: How did the Jupiter system form?; How does the Jupiter system work?; and Does the Jupiter system harbor a habitable world? ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 L-class mission concept. | TBD | ESA |
| 2021 | IXO | In July 2008, the International X-ray Observatory (IXO) was announced to the astronomical community. IXO is a joint X-ray observatory with participation from ESA, NASA and JAXA. This mission supersedes the Constellation-X and XEUS mission concepts. ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 L-class mission concept. | Atlas V 551 or Ariane V | NASA / ESA / JAXA |
| 2022 | Mars Lander 2022 | "Mars Lander 2022" mission in pre-formulation phase. | TBD | NASA |
| 2022 | Lunar-7 | "Lunar-7" mission in pre-formulation phase. NASA's Lunar Quest Program is a multi-element program consisting of flight missions, instruments for lunar missions of opportunity, as well as research and analysis efforts. An additional component of the program is the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), managed by the Ames Research Center. Marshall has program management responsibility for the Lunar Quest Program providing overall mission management oversight. | TBD | NASA |
| 2023 | Discovery-15 | A Discovery Program mission in pre-formulation phase. | TBD | NASA |
| 2024 | Mars Orbiter 2024 | "Mars Orbiter 2024" mission in pre-formulation phase. | TBD | NASA |
| 2025 | Lunar-8 | "Lunar-8" mission in pre-formulation phase. NASA's Lunar Quest Program is a multi-element program consisting of flight missions, instruments for lunar missions of opportunity, as well as research and analysis efforts. An additional component of the program is the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), managed by the Ames Research Center. Marshall has program management responsibility for the Lunar Quest Program providing overall mission management oversight. | TBD | NASA |
| 2026 | Discovery-16 | A Discovery Program mission in pre-formulation phase. | TBD | NASA |
| 2028 | Mars Lander 2028 | "Mars Lander 2028" mission in pre-formulation phase. | TBD | NASA |
| 2028 | Lunar-9 | "Lunar-9" mission in pre-formulation phase. NASA's Lunar Quest Program is a multi-element program consisting of flight missions, instruments for lunar missions of opportunity, as well as research and analysis efforts. An additional component of the program is the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), managed by the Ames Research Center. Marshall has program management responsibility for the Lunar Quest Program providing overall mission management oversight. | TBD | NASA |
| 2029 | Discovery-17 | A Discovery Program mission in pre-formulation phase. | TBD | NASA |
| 2030 | TSSM | The Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM) would consist of a NASA orbiter and an ESA lander and research balloon. | TBD | NASA / ESA |
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Cassini Titan flyby (T-72):
21 days, 16 hours, 0 minutes
EPOXI comet Hartley 2 flyby:
62 days
Cassini Titan flyby (T-73):
69 days, 11 hours, 0 minutes
