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This is a list of proposed spacecraft that are planned to focus on the exploration of the Solar System , ordered by date of
spacecraft launch.
Planned or scheduled missions
^ Alamalhoadei, Aria (6 November 2023).
"Firefly's Blue Ghost lander represents a big bet on a future lunar economy" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 6 November 2023 .
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"Firefly Completes Integration Readiness Review of its Blue Ghost Lunar Lander" .
Firefly Aerospace . 26 April 2022. Archived from
the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022 .
^ Foust, Jeff (25 April 2024).
"NASA planning September launch of Mars smallsat mission on first New Glenn" .
SpaceNews . Retrieved 26 April 2024 .
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"Europa Clipper" . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov . Retrieved 2021-08-23 .
^ Foust, Jeff (10 February 2021).
"NASA to use commercial launch vehicle for Europa Clipper" .
SpaceNews . Retrieved 14 May 2021 .
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"Cost growth prompts changes to Europa Clipper instruments" . SpaceNews . 2020-07-10. Retrieved 2020-11-21 . Chodas said that Europa Clipper now has a launch readiness date of 2024, a year later than plans announced last year.
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"Industry starts work on Europe's Hera planetary defence mission" .
ESA . 15 September 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2021 .
^ Jones, Andrew (6 November 2023).
"Japan's mission to bizarre asteroid Phaethon delayed to 2025" .
Space.com . Retrieved 18 December 2023 .
^ Takeshi Kuroda, Yasuko Kasai, Shinichi Nakasuka, Hiroyuki Maezawa, Takayoshi Yamada, Ryohei Takahashi:
TEREX-1: A micro-satellite terahertz lander for the exploration of water/oxygen resources on Mars . 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Abstract B0.5-0006-21 (oral), id.223, January 2021.
^ Kasai, Yasuko (13 June 2018).
"Tera-hertz Explorer, TEREX, Mission" (PDF) .
University of Tsukuba .
NICT . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 25 November 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2019 .
^ Jones, Andrew (2022-05-18).
"China to launch Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling mission in 2025" . Space.com . Retrieved 2022-07-31 .
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a
b Tingley, Brett (9 January 2024).
"Astronauts won't walk on the moon until 2026 after NASA delays next 2 Artemis missions" .
Space.com . Retrieved 9 January 2024 .
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"NASA's Artemis 2 mission set for November 2024" .
Phys.org .
Agence France-Presse . 7 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023 .
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"Artemis III Launch - NASA" . Retrieved 2023-12-01 .
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"MMX - Martian Moons eXploration" . MMX - Martian Moons eXploration . Retrieved 2 June 2024 . The current schedule has a launch date in JFY 2026, followed by Martian orbit insertion in JFY 2027 and the spacecraft will return to Earth in JFY 2031.
^ Jones, Andrew (5 August 2020).
"China is moving ahead with lunar south pole and near-Earth asteroid missions" .
SpaceNews . Retrieved 28 June 2022 .
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b
"Ученый сообщил об активном ходе работ по импортозамещению комплектующих "Луны-27" " [The scientist reported on the active progress of work on import substitution of Luna-27 components]. TASS (in Russian). 19 July 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2023 .
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"Dragonfly" . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov . Retrieved 2021-05-14 .
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"NASA New Frontiers 5: Third Community Announcement" .
NASA
Science Mission Directorate . 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2021-05-14 . The launch date for Dragonfly, the fourth mission in the New Frontiers Program, has been delayed to June 2027.
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"NASA, European Space Agency Unite to Land Europe's Rover on Mars - NASA" . Retrieved 2024-05-17 .
^ Foust, Jeff (2024-04-10).
"ESA awards contract to Thales Alenia Space to restart ExoMars" . SpaceNews . Retrieved 2024-04-11 .
^ CNSA Watcher [@CNSAWatcher] (23 December 2023).
"Tianwen-4, launching Sept 2029, will journey to Jupiter using Venus & Earth gravity assists. Targeting Jupiter capture by Dec 2035 & a Uranus flyby in March 2045, the mission includes 2 probes, one exploring Jupiter's system and another flying by Uranus" (
Tweet ) – via
Twitter .
^ Andrew Jones published (2022-09-22).
"China wants to probe Uranus and Jupiter with 2 spacecraft on one rocket" . Space.com . Retrieved 2022-09-28 .
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"Ariel moves from blueprint to reality" .
ESA . 12 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020 .
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"ESA's new mission to intercept a comet" . www.esa.int . Retrieved 2020-01-06 .
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"Comet Interceptor" . www.cometinterceptor.space . Retrieved 2020-01-06 .
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"NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study 'Lost Habitable' World of Venus - NASA" . Retrieved 2023-11-30 .
^ Jones, Andrew (2024-03-08).
"China targets 2030 for Mars sample return mission, potential landing areas revealed" . SpaceNews . Retrieved 2024-03-13 .
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"Борисов назвал сроки запуска миссий "Луна-26", "Луна-27" и "Луна-28" " . TACC (in Russian). Retrieved 2 June 2024 .
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"FY 2025 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST SUMMARY" . NASA. Retrieved 2024-03-19 .
^ Foust, Jeff (31 October 2023).
"Rocket Lab plans launch of Venus mission as soon as late 2024" . SpaceNews.com . Retrieved 31 October 2023 .
^ Wu, Weiren; Yu, Dengyun; Huang, Jiangchuan; Zong, Qiugang; Wang, Chi; Yu, Guobin; He, Rongwei; Wang, Qian; Kang, Yan; Meng, Linzhi; Wu, Ke; He, Jiansen; Li, Hui (2019-01-09).
"Exploring the solar system boundary" . Scientia Sinica Informationis . 49 (1): 1.
doi :
10.1360/N112018-00273 .
ISSN
2095-9486 .
S2CID
86476811 .
^ Jones, Andrew (November 19, 2019).
"China Considers Voyager-like Mission to Interstellar Space" . Planetary.org . The Planetary Society. Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
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"ispace alters Moon mission timelines for greater response to customer needs" . NASASpaceFlight.com . 23 August 2019.
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"What is Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan" . Business Standard India . Retrieved 2019-10-26 . ISRO now plans to develop and launch a follow-up mission called Mars Orbiter Mission 2 (MOM-2 or Mangalyaan-2) in 2024.
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"The Space Review: Taking on the challenge of Mars sample return" . www.thespacereview.com . 2020-04-27. Retrieved 2020-05-24 .
^ Kenneth Chang (May 29, 2023).
"The United Arab Emirates Is Heading for the Asteroid Belt" . The New York Times .
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"ISRO discussing possible mission to moon with Japanese agency: S Somanath" . The Economic Times . 2023-03-22.
ISSN
0013-0389 . Retrieved 2024-01-16 . Somanath also said there is a good opportunity to launch a mission to explore planet Venus by 2028.
^ Zak, Anatoly (5 March 2021).
"New promise for the Venera-D project" . RussianSpaceWeb . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ Simon, Amy; Nimmo, Francis; Anderson, Richard C. (7 June 2021).
"Journey to an Ice Giant System: Uranus Orbiter and Probe" . Planetary Mission Concept for the 2023–2032 Planetary Science Decadal Survey . NASA. Retrieved 1 May 2022 .
^ Foust, Jeff (2023-05-03).
"Plutonium availability constrains plans for future planetary missions" . SpaceNews . Retrieved 2023-05-03 .
^ MacKenzie, Shannon M.; Kirby, Karen W.; Greenauer, Peter J.; Neveu, Marc; Gold, Rob; Davila, Alfonso; Lunine, Jonathan I.; Cable, Morgan; Craft, Kate; Eigenbrode, Jennifer; Glein, Christopher; Hofgartner, Jason; Mckay, Christopher; Phillips-Lander, Charity; Waite, Hunter; Burton, Dana; Seifert, Helmut; Boye, Jeff; Brock, Spencer; Chen, Michelle; Coker, Rob; Colonel, Grace; Criss, Tom; Crowley, Doug (14 October 2020).
"Encealdus Orbilander: A Flagship Mission Concept for Astrobiology" . NASA Technical Reports Server . Retrieved 26 April 2024 .