![]() SpaceX's Starship is scheduled to conduct a crewed lunar flyby in 2023 at the earliest. | |
This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2023.
NASA plans to launch the Artemis 2 mission on the Space Launch System, sending astronauts around the moon on a ten day lunar flyby. SpaceX plans to conduct a crewed lunar flyby with Yusaku Maezawa using the Starship, a crewed spacecraft being developed with partial funding from Maezawa.[1] The flight, dubbed the #dearMoon project, will include six to eight artists invited as passengers.
China will launch Chang'e 7 to explore the lunar south pole.[2] The mission will include an orbiter, a lander, a rover, and a mini-flying probe.
The first Indian crewed spaceflight, Gaganyaan 3, is planned for 2023.[3]
ESA plans to perform an orbital test flight of Space RIDER, an uncrewed spaceplane.[4][5]
Date and time (UTC) | Rocket | Flight number | Launch site | LSP | |||
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Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) |
Operator | Orbit | Function | Decay (UTC) | Outcome | ||
Remarks |
20 June | BepiColombo | Third gravity assist at Mercury | |
21 August | Parker Solar Probe | Sixth gravity assist at Venus | |
24 September | OSIRIS-REx | Sample return to Earth | |
30 December | Juno | 57th perijove | On the day of this perijove, Juno will fly by Io. Orbital period around Jupiter reduced to 35 days.[121][122] |
Start Date/Time | Duration | End Time | Spacecraft | Crew | Remarks |
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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.
Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures |
Remarks |
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Family | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Rocket | Country | Family | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Rocket | Country | Type | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Site | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
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Orbital regime | Launches | Achieved | Not achieved | Accidentally achieved |
Remarks |
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Transatmospheric | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Low Earth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Geosynchronous / transfer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Medium Earth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
High Earth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Heliocentric orbit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Including planetary transfer orbits |
PUNCH is in preliminary design and technology completion phase (Phase B) with an expected launch date of February 2023.
On this contract Ball Aerospace will do the work in Boulder, Colo., and should be finished by January 2023.
The first of two planned sensors will launch in 2023.
The Bion-M2 spacecraft, designed and manufactured by the Progress Rocket Space Center, is expected to be launched from Baikonur atop the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket.
Still early days. The point of the probe is to look for possible life in Venus' atmosphere. Current probe candidates are about 25 kg and have about 6 mins of time in the sweet spot. Photon will act as the relay back to Earth.
The laboratory is working with the Japanese National Space Policy Secretariat and Mitsubishi Electric Company to integrate state-of-the-art sensors on the newest satellites in the QZSS constellation, QZS-6 and QZS-7, which are scheduled for launch in 2023 and 2024, respectively.
Telesat plans to begin launching the first Lightspeed in 2023, with initial satellites launched by Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin on its New Glenn rocket.
Telesat signed a launch contract with Blue Origin in January 2019 for multiple New Glenn missions, any one of which will be able to launch 30 to 35 Telesat LEO satellites, he said. Telesat also has a launch contract with startup Relativity Space, whose Terran 1 vehicle will be able to orbit a single Telesat LEO satellite, Hudson said.