schedule of future solar system exploration |
schedule of future solar system exploration |
Apr 20 2012, 09:37 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
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 |
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Apr 20 2012, 03:36 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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.
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Apr 20 2012, 03:56 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Thanks, Paolo, for this summary. I'd add to it that NH Pluto approach observations begin January 2015 (LORRI will first be able to resolve Pluto in, I think, February 2015); the entire data set won't be on Earth until April 2016.
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Apr 20 2012, 08:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
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... |
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Sep 12 2012, 06:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
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Sep 12 2012, 08:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2917 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Any chance to get a .PDF version, Paolo?
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Sep 15 2012, 05:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
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Sep 15 2012, 08:25 PM
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I imported the list to Google Docs Spreadsheet (better formatting, also fixed some typos). Needless to say, all credit goes to Paolo.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key...TTJFSmVhZEo5U1E (This is the editable version. If you think something is not accurate, feel free to edit. If you think something's missing, go ahead and add what's missing) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key...ZVFCejhSNHdkQWc (This version is NOT editable. I made a copy of the editable version as a precaution, in case someone deletes the file, or somehow screws it up) |
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Dec 31 2012, 03:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
just a quick reminder of what's in store for solar system exploration in 2013:
four launches: LADEE (currently planned for 12 August), Chang'e 3 (second half of 2013, the first attempted lunar soft landing in 37 years!), MAVEN (window opens 18 November) and Mangalyaan (November) one flyby: Juno flies by Earth on 9 October one end of mission: MESSENGER in March (I have not yet heard of a further mission extension) with my best wishes for a lucky 13 to everyone in the forum! |
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Dec 31 2012, 06:40 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Many thanks for a very useful list! And best wishes to all for what indeed looks like a very interesting year coming up.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Dec 31 2012, 09:24 PM
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I notice that we lose both Cassini and Juno within a few weeks of each other in the fall of 2017.
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Jan 1 2013, 07:57 AM
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Predictions of end of mission that far ahead should be taken with a grain of salt, IMHO. Who knows what will happened to bring it closer or farther for both spacecraft, whether in the outer solar system or on Earth.
Happy New Year BTW! |
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Jan 1 2013, 10:54 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Happy New Year to all as well!!!!
Re EOM for Cassini & Juno: It's possible that Cassini may get an extension, mostly because it's RTG-powered; presumably the prime considerations will be available power remaining, bus & payload health, and estimated remaining fuel for the ACS & main engines. Juno will probably go as advertised since it is solar-powered & the Jovian radiation environment will cause significant deterioration of its own power generation capability over time. In both cases, EOM must occur while the spacecraft are controllable in order to preclude the possibility (however remote) of either of them impacting a moon of interest for future detailed studies of organic chemistry & thus possibly introducing terrestrial contamination since, as orbiters, neither was sterilized to planetary protection standards for landers. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 1 2013, 11:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
plus, Cassini and Juno will be taking more or less the same measurements (radio tracking for solid core probing and microwave radiometry) at the same time on both gas giants
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Jan 1 2013, 07:15 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: 5-September 12 Member No.: 6635 |
Yeah. While i'm fully aware of all the issues involved: It's too bad they cant be put into a parking orbit for retrivial by future space exploration archeologist.
On a related issue i've been looking into the possibility of MSL taking images or videos of the Viking Orbiters. I've uncovered this discussion on UMSF from 7-8 years ago which suggest at least one of the orbiters may still be in orbit. Would it be possible for MSL to be programmed to return appropriate evening and morning images looking for objects in orbit? If so would it be possible to indentify the orbiter? We could "practice" on the existing 3 active orbiters ... Probably sounds crazy but it might be a good use of extended down periods like the present. |
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