we're exploring the world's beyond our pale blue dot in more detail than ever before.
fascinating upcoming space missions both planned and proposed are you a fiend for facts are you constantly curious then.
we'll be starting with destinations closest to home working our way out to the far-flung corners of the solar system and beyond, for now.
future space missions timeline
The china space station in 2021
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| The china space station in 2021 |
low earth orbit the international space station is currently alone up there not including satellites and the Hubble telescope but it will soon have a neighbor the china national space administration has ambitious plans to start launching modules for their own space station in 2021.
it will be china's third after Tiangong one and two the intention is that unlike its two predecessors this one will be permanent the cnsa will use the long march 5b Rocket to launch materials into orbit it's thought that the space station will be able to aid future manned moon missions for china who already made lunar history when genre 4 became the first spacecraft to soft-land on the far side of the moon in 2019.
Russia starts preparing to leave ISS
NASA future space missions
Artemis program NASA
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| Artemis program NASA |
The last time humans set foot on the moon themselves was back in 1972 NASA is heading back however in the 2020s the Artemis program will kick off with an uncrewed test flight in November 2021 and aims to land astronauts on lunar soil by 2024 including the first woman while it's not necessarily part of the Artemis program Nasa is also planning to build the lunar gateway a space station in lunar orbit the construction of which will also begin in 2024 it might not be useful for the first Artemis astronauts but it's sure to be an invaluable tool for lunar exploration in the late 2020s 2030s and beyond both programs involve global cooperation from leading space agencies.
James Webb telescope
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| james webb telescope |
while it'll be fascinating to further explore the moon nothing beats peering into the far reaches of space launched in 1990 the Hubble telescope is still operational but it's set to be succeeded by the new and improved James Webb telescope rather than orbiting earth like Hubble however it will orbit the sun while keeping pace with our home planet from roughly 1 million miles away, unfortunately, the James Webb telescope has been plagued by delays and its original budget has ballooned to over 10 billion dollars be that as it may it's set to launch in October 2021.
The telescope will function in a much wider spectrum of light than Hubble largely focusing on infrared this means it'll be able to capture low light stars like red dwarf stars and observe entire galaxies previously hidden from view of course one of the principal goals of space exploration. is also to search for signs of extraterrestrial life in September 2020.
India future space missions
future space missions of isro
Shukrayaan 1 MISSION
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| INDIA Shukrayaan-1 MISSION |
Search for signs of extraterrestrial life in September 2020. researchers claimed to have detected a biosignature in venus's atmosphere in the form of phosphine gas that makes the Indian space research organization's proposed orbiter Shukrayaan 1 especially exciting with a proposed launch date of 2024 the orbiter would study the composition of venus's atmosphere meanwhile Russia is planning their own mission to our hellish sister planet Venera d would consist of a lander and orbiter and launch as early as 2026.
future space missions to mars
MARS MISSION
Is it possible for humans to live on Mars?
Nasa is also looking into proposals including the atmospheric probe Davinci and the surface mapping spacecraft veritas an even better place to look for signs of life though might be mars if there was once life there we're closer than ever to finding it in February 2021 NASA's perseverance rover touched down in Jezreel crater which was once a lake to search for signs of extraterrestrial life it was a big month for mars also seeing the arrival of the United Arab emirates orbiter hop and china's spacecraft Tianwen won which will deploy its own rover perseverance or Percy is also carrying a small autonomous helicopter ingenuity to scout the martian landscape excitingly the rover will leave behind samples for a possible retrieval mission that could launch as early as 2026.
such a mission would need to consist of a lander fetch rover and ascent rocket concepts are still being considered but hopes are high that we could one-day study martian samples in person perseverance will soon be joined by Rosalind franklin previously known as the exomars rover named after an English chemist it's being developed for a joint mission between the European space agency and Russia's ros cosmos which is building both the launcher and the lander originally slated to launch in July of 2020 it's now set to launch sometime in 2022.
the solar-powered rover is heading to oxia planum
a large plane full of clay deposits that were once rich in the water there it too will search for signs of past Martian life mind you while sending rovers to mars is nice to imagine.
Martion Moon eXploration
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| martian moon exploration |
while most of our interest in space exploration revolves around our moon and mars also has two intriguing moons of its own Phobos and Deimos they haven't gotten much attention to date but a Japanese aerospace exploration agency mission to launch in 2024 will change that by august 2025 the martian moons exploration probe or MMX will have reached and landed on Phobos it will also perform a flyby of Deimos the smaller moon before its mission ends and the probe returns with samples to earth.
It's aiming to find out how mars' moons were formed.
NASA LUCY MISSION
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| NASA LUCY MISSION |
The little guys beyond mars lies the asteroid belt that divides the inner and outer planets in 2022. The spacecraft psyche will set off on a four-year voyage to one of the solar system's weirdest asteroids 16 psyches this asteroid is believed by scientists to be the exposed core of a proto-planet that was once on its way to becoming a true planet before a collision broke it up the information psyche collects will hopefully teach us about how planets form another NASA mission lucy will go.
JUICE MISSION
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| ESA juice mission |
Further afield studying asteroids in the main belt and also close to Jupiter's orbit speaking of Jupiter there's a lot to be learned from the gas giant's largest moons in 2022 the European space agency's juice mission will launch for a closer look.
The Jupiter icy moons explorer or juice will take seven years to reach its destination arriving at the jovian system in late 2029 it's going to do flybys of Callisto Europa and Ganymede all of which may host subsurface oceans and have the potential for alien life in 2032 juice will go into orbit around Ganymede.
NASA's Europa Clipper
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| NASA's Europa Clipper |
Becoming the first man-made probe to orbit an alien moon when it runs out of fuel around two years later it will crash into the surface in the meantime NASA's Europa Clipper will reach Europa in 2030 to investigate the moon's habitability and identify a landing site for their proposed Europa lander a hop skip and a jump
of about 400 million miles past Jupiter and we're at Saturn one of the most promising bodies in the solar system for supporting life is Saturn's largest moon titan with its liquid methane lakes to date however we've been working with limited knowledge based on the findings of a handful of missions in 2027.
NASA dragonfly spacecraft
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| NASA dragonfly spacecraft |
NASA is looking to launch the dragonfly spacecraft a robotic rotorcraft that will explore titan's surface dragonfly should finally be able to tell us whether titan might be able to support human life or even alien life more effectively than the inner planets but even if all goes to plan it's still not going to arrive at titan until 2036 so we've got a long wait ahead.
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