Timeline of spaceflight
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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
Before 1951
1951-1956
1957–1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-2019
2020-2029
Spaceflight after 2029
Statistics (1957-2024)
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Extracted from launch data.[1]
- Failure
- Partial failure
- Success
- Planned
Deep-space rendezvous after 2029
Date (UTC) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
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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
- Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
- Launch vehicle
- List of crewed spacecraft
- Outer space
- Space exploration
- Space launch market competition
- Timeline of private spaceflight
- Timeline of Solar System exploration
- Timeline of space exploration
References
- ^ "Launch log". Jonathans space report. 23 May 2019.
- ^ "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.
External links
- Bergin, Chris. "NASASpaceFlight.com".
- Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now".
- Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)". CelesTrak.[dead link]
- Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches".
- Kyle, Ed. "Space Launch Report". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- McDowell, Jonathan. "GCAT Orbital Launch Log".
- Pietrobon, Steven. "Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive".
- Wade, Mark. "Encyclopedia Astronautica".
- Webb, Brian. "Southwest Space Archive".
- Zak, Anatoly. "Russian Space Web".
- "ISS Calendar". Spaceflight 101.
- "NSSDCA Master Catalog". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
- "Space Calendar". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[dead link]
- "Space Information Center". JAXA.[dead link]
- "Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).