2029 in spaceflight
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This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2029.
CNSA Planned to launch the Tianwen-4 Jupiter orbiter and Uranus flyby spacecraft in 2029.
Russia expects to launch the Venera-D Venus Orbiter in 2029.
ESA planned to launch ARIEL Space Telescope and Comet Interceptor Mission in 2029.
Orbital launches
[edit]Date and time (UTC) | Rocket | Flight number | Launch site | LSP | ||||
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Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) |
Operator | Orbit | Function | Decay (UTC) | Outcome | |||
Remarks | ||||||||
June[edit] | ||||||||
Q2 (TBD)[1] | Vega-C | Kourou ELV | Arianespace | |||||
TBA | TBA | Low Earth | TBA | |||||
Small Satellites Mission Service (SSMS) #20 rideshare mission. | ||||||||
Q2 (TBD)[3] | TBA | TBA | TBA | |||||
CO2M-C (Sentinel-7C) | ESA | Low Earth (SSO) | Earth observation | |||||
Third satellite (option) of the Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission.[2] Part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme. | ||||||||
September[edit] | ||||||||
September (TBD)[4][5] | Long March 5 | Wenchang LC-1 | CASC | |||||
Tianwen-4 Jupiter orbiter | CNSA | Jovicentric | Jupiter orbiter | |||||
Tianwen-4 Uranus flyby spacecraft | CNSA | Heliocentric to escape velocity | Uranus flyby | |||||
Dual-launch of a Chinese Jupiter orbiter and Uranus flyby spacecraft. | ||||||||
Q3 (TBD)[1] | Ariane 64 | Kourou ELA-4 | Arianespace | |||||
TBA | TBA | Geosynchronous | TBA | |||||
Multi-Launch Service (MLS) #4 rideshare mission. | ||||||||
Q3 (TBD)[3][6] | Vega-C | Kourou ELV | Arianespace | |||||
CIMR A (Sentinel-11A) | ESA | Low Earth (SSO) | Oceanography | |||||
First of two satellites for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) mission. Part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme. | ||||||||
December[edit] | ||||||||
Q4 (TBD)[1] | Vega-C | Kourou ELV | Arianespace | |||||
TBA | TBA | Low Earth | TBA | |||||
SSMS #21 rideshare mission. | ||||||||
To Be Determined[edit] | ||||||||
2029 (TBD)[7] | Angara A5 / DM-03 | Vostochny Site 1A | Roscosmos | |||||
Venera-D | Roscosmos | Heliocentric | TBA | |||||
2029 (TBD)[8][9] | Angara A5P | Vostochny Site 1A | Roscosmos | |||||
Orel | Roscosmos | Low Earth | Crewed flight test | |||||
2029 (TBD)[10][11] | Ariane 62 | Kourou ELA-4 | Arianespace | |||||
ARIEL | ESA | Sun–Earth L2 | Exoplanetary science | |||||
Comet Interceptor | ESA / JAXA | Sun–Earth L2 | Comet flyby | |||||
JFY2029 (TBD)[12] | Epsilon S | Uchinoura | JAXA | |||||
Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-6 | JAXA | Low Earth | Technology demonstration | |||||
Part of JAXA's Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration Program. | ||||||||
JFY2029 (TBD)[12] | H3 | Tanegashima LA-Y2 | MHI | |||||
IGS-Radar Diversification 1 | CSICE | Low Earth (SSO) | Reconnaissance | |||||
First of a new generation of IGS-Radar satellites. | ||||||||
JFY2029 (TBD)[12] | H3 | Tanegashima LA-Y2 | MHI | |||||
IGS-Optical 10 | CSICE | Low Earth (SSO) | Reconnaissance | |||||
2029 (TBD)[13] | New Glenn | Cape Canaveral LC-36 | Blue Origin | |||||
Blue Moon MK2 | Blue Origin / NASA | Selenocentric (NRHO) | Crewed lunar lander | |||||
Sustaining HLS Crewed Lunar Demo for Artemis 5. | ||||||||
2029 (TBD)[14][15] | Tronador II-250 | Manuel Belgrano Space Center | CONAE | |||||
CONAE | Low Earth | Flight test | ||||||
Maiden flight of Tronador II-250. | ||||||||
2029 (TBD)[6] | Vega-C | Kourou ELV | Arianespace | |||||
CHIME (Sentinel-10) | ESA | Low Earth (SSO) | Earth observation | |||||
Part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme. | ||||||||
2029 (TBD)[6] | Vega-C | Kourou ELV | Arianespace | |||||
LSTM (Sentinel-8) | ESA | Low Earth (SSO) | Earth observation | |||||
Part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme. | ||||||||
2029 (TBD)[16][17] | TBA | Baikonur or Vostochny | Roscosmos | |||||
Ekspress-36 | RSCC | Geosynchronous | Communications | |||||
Replacement for Ekspress-AMU1 at 36° East. | ||||||||
2029 (TBD)[18][19] | Vega-C | Kourou ELV | Arianespace | |||||
Harmony A (Concordia) | ESA | Low Earth (SSO) | Earth observation | |||||
Harmony B (Discordia) | ESA | Low Earth (SSO) | Earth observation | |||||
Tenth Earth Explorers mission. | ||||||||
2029 (TBD)[20] | TBA | TBA | TBA | |||||
Venus Atmosphere Sample Return Mission | MIT | Heliocentric to Venus | Venus sample return | |||||
Third of three MIT missions to Venus to study its atmosphere. | ||||||||
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Suborbital flights
[edit]Date and time (UTC) | Rocket | Flight number | Launch site | LSP | |||
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Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) |
Operator | Orbit | Function | Decay (UTC) | Outcome | ||
Remarks |
Deep-space rendezvous
[edit]
Date (UTC) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
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18 January 2029 | JUICE | Third and final gravity assist at Earth | |
21 April 2029 | OSIRIS-APEX | Rendezvous with asteroid 99942 Apophis[21] | Observation operations begin 8 April |
August 2029 | Psyche | Arrival at asteroid 16 Psyche |
Extravehicular activities (EVAs)
[edit]Start Date/Time | Duration | End Time | Spacecraft | Crew | Remarks |
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Orbital launch statistics
[edit]By country
[edit]For the purposes of this section, the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. For example, Soyuz launches by Arianespace in Kourou are counted under Russia because Soyuz-2 is a Russian rocket.
References
[edit]- ^ "Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite given the shakes". ESA. 10 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ a b "Planned launches". EUMETSAT. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ CNSA Watcher [@CNSAWatcher] (23 December 2023). "Tianwen-4, launching Sept 2029, will journey to Jupiter using Venus & Earth gravity assists. Targeting Jupiter capture by Dec 2035 & a Uranus flyby in March 2045, the mission includes 2 probes, one exploring Jupiter's system and another flying by Uranus" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Jones, Andrew (22 September 2022). "China wants to probe Uranus and Jupiter with 2 spacecraft on one rocket". Space.com. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ a b c Parsonson, Andrew (13 November 2020). "ESA signs a trio of Copernicus contracts worth 1.3 billion euros". SpaceNews. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ^ Forrester, Chris (6 August 2024). "Venera D Mission". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ Katya Pavlushchenko [@katlinengrey] (15 August 2023). "Both the first uncrewed test flight and the first crewed test flight of the planned #Oryol spacecraft are scheduled for 2028, said the chief designer of ROS (it's not a misprint, now they call it ROS instead of ROSS), deputy director of RSC Energia Vladimir Kozhevnikov" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Определен срок полета российского корабля "Орел" с экипажем на МКС" [The scheduled time for the first crewed flight of the Russian spacecraft Orel to the ISS has been determined]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 13 February 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Ariel moves from blueprint to reality". ESA. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ Lakdawalla, Emily (21 June 2019). "ESA to Launch Comet Interceptor Mission in 2028". The Planetary Society. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ a b c "宇宙基本計画⼯程表 (令和5年度改訂)" [Basic Plan on Space Policy (2023 Revision)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Cabinet Office. 22 December 2023. p. 45. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 December 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
- ^ Foust, Jeff (19 May 2023). "NASA selects Blue Origin to develop second Artemis lunar lander". SpaceNews. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
- ^ Mazzini Puga, Luciana (9 June 2023). "Hacia la soberanía espacial: el lanzador de satélites Tronador II estará listo en 2029" [Towards space sovereignty: the Tronador II satellite launcher will be ready in 2029]. Agencia de Noticias Cientificas (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ "Argentina's ambitious plan to launch satellites with its own rocket". natescrest. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ Shulgin, Dmitry (21 January 2021). "Российский "Экспресс" набирает обороты" [Russian "Ekspress" gaining momentum]. RSCC (in Russian). p. 5. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
- ^ Holmes, Mark (15 October 2020). "Russian Space Leaders Split on GEO vs LEO at SatComRus". Via Satellite. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
- ^ "Harmony Mission". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "ESA selects Harmony as tenth Earth Explorer mission". ESA. 22 September 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ^ "Venus Life Finder Mission Study" (PDF). Venus Cloud Life. MIT. 10 December 2021. pp. 42–52. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ^ Lauretta, D. S.; Bierhaus, E. B.; Binzel, R. P.; Bos, B. J. (6 November 2020). OSIRIS-REx at Apophis: Opportunity for an Extended Mission (PDF). Apophis T–9 Years: Knowledge Opportunities for the Science of Planetary Defense.
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