schedule of future solar system exploration Options

[Paolo]

I posted this to the NASAspaceflight forum but it actually belongs to this forum.
the schedule comprises a few events that are not yet approved or fully funded (ExoMars launch, Deep Impact 3rd flyby etc.), I have not yet found a schedule of BepiColombo flybys after the recent one-year delay and I have not looked in detail at ESA's Solar Orbiter or NASA's Solar Probe+


June 2012 Discovery 12 selection
6 August 2012 Mars Science Laboratory lands on Mars
26 August 2012 Dawn leaves Vesta
March 2013 MESSENGER end of mission
9 October 2013 Juno Earth flyby
18 November 2013 MAVEN launch
20 January 2014 Rosetta exits from hibernation
summer 2014 Hayabusa 2 launch
August 2014 Rosetta enters orbit around Churyumov-Gerasimenko
10 August 2014 ICE Earth return
September 2014 MAVEN enters orbit around Mars
November 2014 Philae lands on Churyumov-Gerasimenko
February 2015 Dawn enters orbit around Ceres
July 2015 Dawn end of mission
14 July 2015 New Horizons flyby of Pluto
15 August 2015 BepiColombo launch
November 2015 Akatsuki second attempt at entering Venus orbit
December 2015 Rosetta end of mission
January 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter launch
5 July 2016 Juno enters orbit around Jupiter
August 2016 BepiColombo Earth flyby
September 2016 OSIRIS-REx launch
19 October 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter enters orbit around Mars
2017 Solar Orbiter launch
June 2017 Trace Gas Orbiter start of the science mission
September 2017 OSIRIS-REx Earth flyby
15 September 2017 Cassini plunges in the atmosphere of Saturn
16 October 2017 Juno plunges in the atmosphere of Jupiter
2018 Solar Probe Plus launch
April 2018 ExoMars rover launch
June 2018 Hayabusa 2 reaches its target asteroid (162173) 1999JU3
16 October 2018 Deep Impact Earth flyby
14 December 2018 ICE flies by comet Wirtanen
January 2019 ExoMars rover lands on Mars
October 2019 OSIRIS-REx reaches its target asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36
January 2020 Deep Impact flies by asteroid (163249) 2002 GT
December 2020 Hayabusa 2 returns to Earth
27 January 2022 BepiColombo enters orbit around Mercury
September 2023 OSIRIS-REx returns to Earth

[Phil Stooke]

That's a very nice list, very useful. I notice you completely exclude the Moon, and perhaps with good reason since exact dates may be very uncertain. Nevertheless, we can be fairly confident that Chang'E 3 will be sent to land on the Moon in late October 2013. All the other possible flights to the Moon (Luna-Resurs and Luna-Glob, Astrobotic or other GLXP flights, the European lunar lander for the south pole, later Chang'E flights, have uncertain schedules.

Phil

[Paolo]

That's a very nice list, very useful. I notice you completely exclude the Moon

you are right! actually the reason is that the list is adapted from the final volume of my book series on the history of solar system exploration, and so it does not include the Moon...