| Date Time (UTC) |
Mission/Event | Description | Launch Vehicle | Agency |
| Apr-05-2010 15:51 |
Cassini | Titan flyby T-67 (7,462 km). | NASA | |
| Early-Apr-2010 (TBD) | CryoSat-2 | CryoSat will monitor the thickness of land ice and sea ice and help explain the connection between the melting of the polar ice and the rise in sea levels and how this is contributing to climate change.
Preparing to babysit CryoSat-2
Feb-23-2010 Following last week's announcement that there would be a launch delay, the space head module encasing CryoSat-2 has been removed from the launcher and returned to the integration facilities. Read more. |
Dnepr | ESA |
| Apr-07-2010 05:16 |
Cassini | Dione flyby (503 km). | NASA | |
| Apr-13-2010 14:42 (TBD) |
Picard | Picard is an investigation dedicated to the simultaneous measurement of the absolute total and spectral solar irradiance, the diameter and solar shape, and to the Sun's interior probing by the helioseismology method. These measurements obtained all along the mission will allow to study their variations as a function of the solar activity. | Dnepr | CNES |
| Apr-28-2010 00:11 |
Cassini | Enceladus flyby E-9 (99 km). | NASA | |
| May-17-2010 21:44 |
AKATSUKI | The Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI" (PLANET-C) will enter an elliptical orbit, 300 to 60,000 km away from Venus's surface. This wide variation in distance will enable comprehensive observations of the planet's meteorological phenomena and of its surface, as well as observations of the atmospheric particles escaping from Venus into space. It will also be possible to take close-up photos of Venus, and to observe the storm winds that blow on the Venusian surface, at speeds that reach 100 m a second - 60 times the speed at which Venus rotates. This phenomenon remains the biggest mystery of Venus, as it cannot be explained meteorologically. AKATSUKI will employ infrared light to observe and elucidate the mysteries surrounding the atmosphere under the clouds and the conditions on the planet's surface. In addition, it will confirm the presence of active volcanoes and thunder.
Launch Day of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 17 (H-IIA F17)
Mar-03-2010 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that the launch of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 17 (H-IIA F17) with the Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI" (PLANET-C) onboard was reported to the Space Activities Commission (SAC) as follows. We will also provide orbit injection opportunities for the Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator "IKAROS" and four small payloads manufactured by universities and other institutions using the excessive launch capability of the H-IIA F17. Scheduled date of Launch: May 18 (Tuesday,) 2010 (Japan Standard Time) Launch time: 6:44:14 a.m. (Japan Standard Time) Launch Windows: May 19 (Wed.) through June 3 (Thu.), 2010 *Launch time will be set for each launch day if the launch is delayed. Launch site: Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center |
H-IIA | JAXA |
| May-17-2010 21:44 |
IKAROS | IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) will be the world's first solar powered sail craft employing both photon propulsion and thin film solar power generation during its interplanetary cruise. | H-IIA (Secondary Payload) | JAXA |
| May-18-2010 06:04 |
Cassini | Enceladus flyby E-10 (198 km). | NASA | |
| May-20-2010 03:24 |
Cassini | Titan flyby T-68 (1,400 km). | NASA | |
| Jun-05-2010 02:26 |
Cassini | Titan flyby T-69 (2,044 km). | NASA | |
| Jun-22-2010 01:27 |
Cassini | Titan flyby T-70 (955 km). | NASA | |
| Jun-2010 | HAYABUSA (MUSES-C) | HAYABUSA Sample Return Capsule with fragments of asteroid Itokawa landing. The planned landing site is Woomera, Australia.
Mission Status
Feb-24-2010 Hayabusa, now will pass within Moon's distance. Hayabusa has reached the orbit that will pass through within the Moon's distance this June. The closest distance from the Earth will be 310 thousand kilometers. Hayabusa will stop the engine briefly at the beginning of March to conduct a precise orbit estimation for the subsequent flight. The ion engines aboard are functioning normally. Read more. |
JAXA | |
| Jun-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 2 Fregat-SB | ASC / Roscosmos |
| Jul-10-2010 | Rosetta | Asteroid Lutetia flyby.
Mission Operations Update
Feb-18-2010 Report for Period 30 January to 12 February 2010 After the successful test of the deep space hibernation mode (DSHM), which was covered in the previous reporting period, spacecraft maintenance activities have resumed as planned. Reaction wheel B was re-lubricated on DoY 034, with a run-in phase that lasted till DoY 042. It was subsequently added in the control loop of the spacecraft's attitude & orbit control system, which now operates on all four reaction wheels again. During the reporting period several payload tests were also conducted in preparation of the 12th payload check-out, which is planned for April-May 2010. Read more. |
ESA | |
| Sep-2010 | ASTROSAT | ASTROSAT will be a multi-wavelength astronomy mission in a 650-km, near-equatorial orbit. | PSLV | ISRO |
| 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 3A | 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
Mar-03-2010 As the EPOCh team moves from processing data to writing papers about their results, the DIXI team is ramping up its activities in preparation for the encounter with comet Hartley 2 on November 4. Read More. |
NASA | |
| Nov-22-2010 (NET) | 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. | Taurus XL | 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 |
| Late-2010 | 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 |
| Jan-16-2011 (TBC) | SAC-D / Aquarius | Aquarius is a focused satellite mission to measure global sea surface salinity (SSS). | Delta II 7320-10 | 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
Mar-03-2010 All subsystems are nominal. Stardust's most recent pass was Monday. In the next week, four more passes are scheduled. Testing of software and memory configuration is underway. In May, the team plans to command to the spacecraft's B side and the tests will assure we will have a redundant capability for Encounter. Background sequence SN034 is active, and SN035 is in development. |
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 |
| Jul-2011 | Dawn | Vesta arrival.
Dawn Now Farther than the Sun as It Continues to Vesta
Feb-28-2010 Dawn made steady progress toward Vesta as it thrust for most of February. This month, Dawn controllers began formulating the specific instructions the spacecraft will use for operating at Vesta. They are beginning with the "approach phase," which commences in May 2011 and concludes in August 2011, when Dawn has thrust to the first science orbit from which it will conduct intensive science observations. By the time Dawn actually begins the approach phase, most of the instructions for its year at Vesta will have been prepared. Hubble Space Telescope observed Vesta on February 25 and 28 to collect data that will help refine plans for Dawn's mission. On February 28, the spacecraft was as far from Earth as the Sun is, and it will never again be this close to the planet from which it began its mission. |
NASA | |
| Jul-2011 | Swarm | Swarm is a constellation of three magnetometry satellites that will provide the best ever survey of the geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution. | TBD | ESA |
| 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 |
| Oct-22-2011 (NET) | 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 2011 | ADM-Aeolus | The Atmospheric Dynamics Mission (ADM-Aeolus) will provide global observations of three-dimensional wind fields. | Vega | ESA |
| 2011 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2012 | Luna-Glob 1 | Consists of orbiter, lander and 4 Japanese-built penetrators. | Soyuz Fregat | Roscosmos / JAXA |
| 2012 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 2012 | Chang'e 3 | Lunar soft lander. | Long March 3B | CNSA |
| 2012 | 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 2 Fregat-SB | Roscosmos |
| Jan-2013 | LADEE | The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) will study the tenuous atmosphere of the Moon. | Minotaur-IV+ | NASA |
| Feb-2013 | 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. | TBD | 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 lander/rover (Luna-Glob 2) on the Moon's surface. | GSLV | ISRO / Roscosmos |
| 2013 | Luna-Glob 2 | Landing module and moon rover. A joint orbiter-rover mission with Chandrayaan-2. | Soyuz Fregat | Roscosmos / ISRO |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| May-2014 | Rosetta | Rosetta arrival at Comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. | ESA | |
| May-2014 | GEMS | Among the thousands of X-ray sources observed with prior and current X-ray satellites, only one astrophysical object, the Crab Nebula, has been measured in polarized X-rays. By providing an increase in sensitivity of more than 100 times, the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX mission will detect and measure the polarization of the X-rays emitted by some of the most energetic and enigmatic objects in the cosmos. These include ultra-dense neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes, which are the remains of the dying explosions of very hot, massive stars, and ultra-massive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies. By studying the changes with time and energy of their polarized X-ray emission, the mission will probe the bending of space and the curving of light in regions of extreme gravity near these objects. | TBD | NASA |
| 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. | Taurus-XL | NASA |
| 2014 | Chang'e 4 | Automated sample return. | Long March 5 (CZ-5/E) | CNSA |
| 2014 | Luna-Grunt 1 | Orbiter and a lander. | Soyuz Fregat | Roscosmos |
| 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 | "Discovery-12" 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 |
| 2015 | Luna-Grunt 2 | Moon lander with sample return. | Soyuz Fregat | Roscosmos |
| 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 |
| Apr-2016 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Cosmic Vision M-class #1 | Launch slot 1 for a 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 a 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 | 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 |
| 2020 | Mars Scout-3 | "Mars Scout-3" mission in pre-formulation phase. | TBD | NASA |
| 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 |
| 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 | Mars Scout-4 | "Mars Scout-4" 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 |
| 2030 | TSSM | The Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM) would consist of a NASA orbiter and an ESA lander and research balloon. | TBD | NASA / ESA |
Last Updated Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 19:04 UTC
CryoSat-2 launch:
TBD
Cassini Titan flyby T-67:
24 days, 1 hours, 55 minutes
AKATSUKI launch:
66 days, 7 hours, 48 minutes
