This article lists planned future orbital and suborbital spaceflight launches and events.
For an overview of spaceflight in the near future, see 2020s in spaceflight.
See main article: 2024 in spaceflight, List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2024 and List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2024.
See main article: 2025 in spaceflight, 2026 in spaceflight, 2027 in spaceflight and 2028 in spaceflight.
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Date (UTC) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks | |
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18 April 2028 | Lucy | Flyby of asteroid 11351 Leucus | Target altitude 1000 km | |
June 2028 | Hayabusa2 | Flyby of Earth | Gravity assist | |
11 November 2028 | Lucy | Flyby of asteroid 21900 Orus | Target altitude 1000 km | |
18 January 2029 | JUICE | Third and final gravity assist at Earth | ||
21 April 2029 | OSIRIS-APEX | Rendezvous with asteroid 99942 Apophis[1] | Observation operations begin 8 April | |
August 2029 | Psyche | Arrival at asteroid 16 Psyche | ||
26 December 2030 | Lucy | Third gravity assist at Earth | Target altitude 660 km | |
July 2031 | Hayabusa2 | Arrival at asteroid 1998 KY26[2] | ||
July 2031 | JUICE | Flyby of Ganymede | ||
July 2031 | JUICE | Jupiter orbit insertion | ||
July 2032 | JUICE | Flyby of Europa | ||
2 March 2033 | Lucy | Flyby of binary asteroid 617 Patroclus-Menoetius | Target altitude 1000 km | |
December 2034 | JUICE | Ganymede orbit insertion | Planned first orbit of a moon other than Earth's |