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: 10146 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.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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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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