This is a list of proposed spacecraft that are planned to focus on the exploration of the Solar System, ordered by date of spacecraft launch.
Mission name | Launch date | Description | Ref(s) |
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Chang'e 6 | May 2024 | Lunar south pole sample return mission | [1][2] |
Blue Ghost M1 | Q3 2024 | Lunar lander | [3][4] |
MMX | September 2024 | Martian moon sample return mission | [5][6][7] |
Europa Clipper | 10 October 2024 | Jupiter orbiter, Europa multiple flyby | [8][9][10] |
Hera | October 2024 | Asteroid 65803 Didymos rendezvous | [11] |
VIPER | November 2024 | Lunar rover | [12][13][14] |
Rocket Lab Venus Probe | 30 December 2024 | Venus atmospheric probe | [15] |
DESTINY+ | 2024 | Asteroid 3200 Phaethon flyby | [16][17] |
Tera-hertz Explorer | 2025 | Mars orbiter and lander | [18][19] |
Tianwen-2 | May 2025 | Asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa sample return, comet 311P/PanSTARRS orbiter | [20] |
Artemis II | September 2025 | 4-person lunar flyby | [21][22] |
Artemis III | September 2026 | 4-person lunar flyby, 2-person lunar landing | [21][23] |
Chang'e 7 | 2026 | Lunar south pole lander, rover and flying probe | [24] |
Luna 26 | 2027 | Lunar orbiter | [25] |
Dragonfly | July 2028 | Titan rotorcraft lander | [26][27] |
Luna 27 | 2028 | Lunar lander | [25] |
Tianwen-3 | 2028 | Mars sample return mission | [28] |
DAVINCI | June 2029 | Venus orbiter and atmospheric probe | [29] |
Tianwen-4 | September 2029 | Jupiter and Callisto Orbiter, Uranus flyby | [30][31] |
Comet Interceptor | 2029 | Flyby of an Oort Cloud comet | [32][33][34] |
VERITAS | 2029 | Venus orbiter | [29] |
Luna 28 | 2030 | Lunar sample return mission | [35] |
Mission name | Preliminary launch date estimate | Description | Ref(s) | ||
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Estimated launch date | Estimate by | Estimate as of | |||
Hakuto-R Mission 2 | 2024 | ispace | 2019 | Private lunar lander and rover | [36] |
Shukrayaan-1 | 2024 | SpaceNews | 2020 | Venus orbiter | [37] |
Mars Orbiter Mission 2 | 2024 | Business Standard | 2019 | Mars orbiter | [38] |
Europa Lander | 2025 | SpaceNews | 2019 | Europa lander | [39][40] |
Orel spacecraft | 2026 | RIA Novosti | 2018 | Uncrewed lunar orbit | [41][42] |
NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return | 2026 | The Space Review | 2020 | Mars sample return mission | [43] |
ExoMars | 2028 | European Space Agency | 2022 | Rosalind Franklin, Mars rover | [44][45][46] |
Venera-D | 2029 | Russian Space Research Institute | 2021 | Venus orbiter and lander | [47] |
China aims to launch the Chang'e-6 probe to collect samples in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon around 2024, said a space expert on Saturday.
Chodas said that Europa Clipper now has a launch readiness date of 2024, a year later than plans announced last year.
The launch date for Dragonfly, the fourth mission in the New Frontiers Program, has been delayed to June 2027.
ISRO now plans to develop and launch a follow-up mission called Mars Orbiter Mission 2 (MOM-2 or Mangalyaan-2) in 2024.
Российский корабль "Федерация" без экипажа на борту впервые может облететь Луну в 2026 году [The Russian Federation spaceship without a crew on board may first fly around the moon in 2026]