Upcoming Planetary Events and Missions

Upcoming Planetary Launches and Events

2009 March 6 - Kepler - Launch of NASA Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Detection Mission
2009 April 24 - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - Launch of Moon Orbiter
2009 September 30 - MESSENGER - Third flyby of Mercury

2010 June - Hayabusa - Return of ISAS Sample Return Mission from Asteroid Itokawa to Earth
2010 July 10 - Rosetta - ESA mission flies by Asteroid 21 Lutetia
2010 October 11 - Deep Impact/EPOXI - Encounters Comet Hartley 2
2010 - Planet-C - Launch of ISAS Venus Orbiter

2011 February 14 - Stardust - Flies by Comet Tempel 1
2011 March 18 - MESSENGER - Goes into orbit around Mercury
2011 September - GRAIL - Launch of NASA Orbiter to the Moon
2011 October - LADEE - Launch of NASA Orbiter to the Moon
2011 Fall - Mars Science Laboratory - Launch of Mars Rover
2011 - Mars Scout Mission - Launch of NASA Scout mission to Mars

2012 June 6 - Transit of Venus - Venus Crosses the Sun's Disk
2012 September - BepiColombo - Launch of ESA and ISAS Orbiter and Lander Missions to Mercury

2014 May-November - Rosetta - ESA mission reaches Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
2014 November - Philae - ESA Rosetta Lander touches down on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
2014 - Mars Sample Return Mission - Launch of NASA sample return mission to Mars

2015 July 14 - New Horizons - NASA mission reaches Pluto and Charon

2231 April 5 - Pluto - is passed by Neptune in distance from the Sun for the next 20 years

4,000,000 - Pioneer 11 - NASA flyby of star Lambda Aquila

Chronology of Future Lunar and Planetary Missions

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Dr. David R. Williams, dave.williams@nasa.gov
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NASA Official: Ed Grayzeck, edwin.j.grayzeck@nasa.gov
Last Updated: 13 January 2009, DRW