June 5, 2031 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Tiangong Space Station Marks 9th Year of Continuous Human Occupation Today marks 9th full year / starts 10th year of continuous Human occupation of TSS; Shenzhou 14 three-member crew launched ...
July 1, 2031 Asteroid 1998 KY26 NET Jul — Hayabusa 2, Asteroid 1998 KY26 Rendezvous ☆ NET Jul — JAXA Hayabusa 2 mission to rendezvous with asteroid 1998 KY26, after returning samples from (162173) Ryugu ...
July 1, 2031 Jupiter Orbit NET July — JUICE Spacecraft to Insert into Jupiter Orbit NET July — ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) expected to reach Jupiter this month if launched April 2023; will ...
August 12, 2031 Heliocentric Orbit Parker Solar Probe Marks 13th Full Year in Space NASA craft surpasses another full year in space today, having launched Aug 12, 2018; probe came within ~6.16M km of ...
August 20, 2031 243rd Galactic Tick Day Highlighting Galaxy awareness by celebrating the Solar System traveling around Milky Way Galaxy Center every ~225 million Earth years, one ...
January 1, 2032 Naro Space Center, South Jeolla, South Korea Launch Korea Space Launch Vehicle-2 / Moon Lander & Rover South Korea planning to launch Moon lander & rover to look for signs of rare minerals on Moon surface.
July 1, 2032 Jupiter Orbit NET Jul — Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) to Flyby Europa ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) expected to perform flyby of moon Europa this month.
November 12, 2032 Global / Inter-Global Transit of Mercury Mercury to pass directly between Earth and Sun; observers see distant planet as small dot gliding slowly across face of ...
January 1, 2033 Wenchang Space Launch Center, Hainan Island, China (19° N) NET 2033 — Launch Long March 9 Test Flight Tentative date for China to test launch its next-gen rocket intended to carry people and cargo to the Moon.
January 1, 2033 Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia NET 2033 — Launch Luna-31 Roscosmos hoping to launch lander to deliver a heavy lunar rover weighing up to 5,000 kg, capable of mining / ...
January 1, 2033 Ankara, Türkiye NET 2033 — Türkiye Hopes to Have Space Launch Capabilities Türkiye hopes to have space-launch capabilities and more than 20 operational satellites by this date.
March 1, 2033 Jupiter Trojan camp at L5 Lucy to Flyby Asteroids 617 Patroclus and Menoetius NASA Lucy mission to come within 1,000 km of 113-km diameter 617 Patroclus and 104-km diameter Menoetius, p-type binary asteroids; ...
April 1, 2033 Heliocentric Orbit Lucy Spacecraft End of Primary Mission, Continues Orbit Around Sun End of primary mission for NASA Lucy mission, future science and mission plan extension TBD; mission is a twelve-year journey ...
June 5, 2033 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Tiangong Space Station Reaches 10 Years of Continuous Human Occupation Today marks 10th full year / starts 11th year of continuous Human occupation of Tiangong Space Station; Shenzhou 14 three-member ...
December 1, 2034 Ganymede Orbit NET Dec — Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) to Enter Ganymede Orbit ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) expected to achieve Ganymede elliptical orbit insertion this month.
January 1, 2035 Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia NET 2035 — Launch Luna-32 Roscosmos hopes to launch Luna-32 to deliver heavy modules weighing up to 5,000 kg for the construction of the International Lunar ...
January 1, 2035 Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia NET 2035 — Launch Luna-33 Roscosmos hopes to launch Luna-33 orbiter to be used for communication and navigation for Human Moon Missions and lunar base.
January 1, 2035 Moon South Pole NET 2035 — Launch of International Lunar Research Station (ILRS-5) Mission International Lunar Research Station ILRS-5 mission to occur by this date; final mission before human occupation of ILRS will include ...
January 1, 2035 Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India NET 2035 — Launch Soorya / Final Bharatiya Antariksh Space Station Module India planning to launch Soorya for final module completing space station Bharatiya Antariksh in LEO.
January 24, 2035 Comet 311/P PanSTARRS Orbit Tianwen-2 to Rendezvous with Comet 311/P PanSTARRS China asteroid sample return mission, having returned at least 100 grams from Kamo’oalewa (2016 HO3), to rendezvous with and begin ...
December 1, 2035 Ganymede Orbit NET Dec — Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) to Impact Ganymede ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is planned to be deorbited and impact Ganymede at the end of 2035, having ...