Timeline of spaceflight

1940s 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s 2010 2011 2012 2013

This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both manned and unmanned, 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 2012 list, and lists for subsequent years, may contain launches which have not yet occurred.

For the purpose of this article, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Karman line, the officially recognised edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 mi) AMSL. The timeline contains all flights which have done so, were intended to do so, but failed, or are planned to do so in the not-too-distant future.


Contents

Orbital launch rates

Orbital launches by year
Key
— Total
— Successful
— Unsuccessful
Year

Deep space rendezvous after 2013

Date (UTC) Spacecraft Event Remarks
May 2014 Rosetta Enters orbit of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
November 2014 Philae Landing on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko First soft landing on a comet
February 2015 Dawn Enters orbit of Ceres 1st visit to a dwarf planet
14 July 2015 New Horizons First flyby of Pluto and Charon 2nd visit to a dwarf planet
November 2015[1] Akatsuki Rendezvous with Venus Akatsuki's 2nd flyby of Venus
July 2016 Juno Jovian orbit injection First solar powered Jovian probe (2nd orbiter)

References

  1. ^ "Crippled space probe bound for second chance at Venus". Spaceflight Now. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1111/21akatsuki/. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 

See also

External links
Generic references:
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