Timeline of spaceflight

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 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

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 2016 list, and lists for subsequent years, may contain launches which have not yet occurred.

For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line, the officially recognised edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL). The timeline contains all flights which have crossed the edge of space, were intended to do so but failed, or are planned in the near future. Some lists are further divided into orbital launches (sending a payload into orbit, whether successful or not) and suborbital flights (e.g. ballistic missiles, sounding rockets, experimental spacecraft).

Orbital launches by year

25
50
75
100
125
150
1957
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
  •   Failure
  •   Partial failure
  •   Success
  •   Scheduled

Deep space rendezvous post-2018

Date (UTC) Spacecraft Event Remarks
1 January 2019 New Horizons Flyby of 2014 MU69[1]
December 2019 Hayabusa 2 Departure from Ryugu
July 2020 OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-go on Bennu for sampling
December 2020 Hayabusa 2 Sample return to Earth
March 2021 OSIRIS-REx Departure from Bennu
24 September 2023 OSIRIS-REx Sample return to Earth

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NASA's New Horizons Team Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Flyby Target". nasa.gov. NASA. 2015-08-28. Retrieved 2015-09-06.

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