Timeline of spaceflight

This is the timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Owing to its large size, the timeline is split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.

The 2024 list and lists for subsequent years contain planned launches, but statistics only include past launches.

For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line, the FAI-recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL). The timeline contains all flights which have crossed the edge of space, were intended to do so but failed, or are planned in the near future. Significant test flights of spaceflight systems may be listed even if they were not planned to reach space. Some lists are further divided into orbital launches (sending a payload into orbit, whether successful or not) and suborbital flights (e.g. ballistic missiles, sounding rockets, experimental spacecraft).

Orbital and Suborbital launches by year

Before 1951

Spaceflight before 1951

1951-1959

1951 in spaceflight
1952 in spaceflight
1953 in spaceflight
1954 in spaceflight
1955 in spaceflight
1956 in spaceflight
1957 in spaceflight (First Orbital launch)
1958 in spaceflight
1959 in spaceflight

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999

2000-2009

2010-2019

2020-2029

Spaceflight after 2029

List of planned future spaceflight launches

Launch Statistics (1957-2024)

Number of successful and unsuccessful orbital launches by country of launch. See or edit source data.

Extracted from launch data.^[1]

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2025

Failure
Partial failure
Success
Planned

Deep-space rendezvous after 2029

Date (UTC)	Spacecraft	Event	Remarks
26 December 2030	Lucy	Third gravity assist at Earth	Target altitude 660 km
July 2031	Hayabusa2	Arrival at asteroid 1998 KY26^[2]
July 2031	JUICE	Flyby of Ganymede
July 2031	JUICE	Jupiter orbit insertion
July 2032	JUICE	Flyby of Europa
2 March 2033	Lucy	Flyby of binary asteroid 617 Patroclus-Menoetius	Target altitude 1000 km
December 2034	JUICE	Ganymede orbit insertion	Planned first orbit of a moon other than Earth's

References

^ "Launch log". Jonathans space report. 23 May 2019.
^ "はやぶさ２、次のミッションは小惑星「１９９８ＫＹ２６」…ＪＡＸＡ". The Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 13 September 2020. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

External links

Bergin, Chris. "NASASpaceFlight.com".
Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now".
Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)". CelesTrak.^{[dead link‍]}
Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches".
Kyle, Ed. "Space Launch Report". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
McDowell, Jonathan. "GCAT Orbital Launch Log".
Pietrobon, Steven. "Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive".
Wade, Mark. "Encyclopedia Astronautica".
Webb, Brian. "Southwest Space Archive".
Zak, Anatoly. "Russian Space Web".
"ISS Calendar". Spaceflight 101.
"NSSDCA Master Catalog". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
"Space Calendar". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.^{[dead link‍]}
"Space Information Center". JAXA.^{[dead link‍]}
"Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).

Generic references:

Spaceflight portal

[1] "Launch log". Jonathans space report. 23 May 2019.

[Yomiuri20200913-2] "はやぶさ２、次のミッションは小惑星「１９９８ＫＹ２６」…ＪＡＸＡ". The Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 13 September 2020. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

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