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.jpg) The SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule is expected to complete its first uncrewed test flight in 2017. | |
| Orbital launches | |
|---|---|
| First | 5 January |
| Last | 22 February |
| Total | 11 |
| Successes | 10 |
| Failures | 1 |
| Catalogued | 11 |
| Rockets | |
| Maiden flights | |
| Retirements | |
Notable spaceflight activities in 2017 will include the maiden flight of the SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule, with a goal to restore capabilities for human spaceflight from the USA, as mandated by NASA's Commercial Crew Development program.[1] U.S. crewed flights have been halted since the Space Shuttle retirement in 2011. However, the first test flight of the Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and debut missions with astronauts on board the new vessels have been pushed to 2018.[1]
The much-delayed Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from the refurbished Launch Complex 39 pad A at Kennedy Space Center in the second quarter. India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III is scheduled to make its maiden orbital flight. The Chinese small-lift Naga-L is also scheduled for its maiden flight, whereas the maiden flight of the Japanese SS-520, a sounding rocket modified for orbital flight, failed in January. The venerable Russian Soyuz-U is slated for retirement after her 786th mission in February.
China will launch its Chang'e 5 lunar sample return mission in the second half of the year from its newly inaugurated Wenchang launch facility on Hainan Island, on top of its new heavy lifting Long March 5. The mission will be the first lunar sample return in over 40 years, since Luna 24 by the USSR in 1976.
After a record-breaking 13-year mission observing Saturn, its rings and moons, the Cassini space probe will be deliberately destroyed by plunging into Saturn's atmosphere, a maneuver currently scheduled for September 15, 2017.
Orbital launches
Suborbital flights
| Date and time (UTC) | Rocket | Flight number | Launch site | LSP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) |
Operator | Orbit | Function | Decay (UTC) | Outcome | ||
| Remarks | |||||||
| 27 January 13:45:00 |
 Black Brant IX
|
 Poker Flat Research Range
|
NASA
| ||||
| PolarNOx
|
Virginia Tech | Suborbital | Thermosphere research | 27 January | Successful | ||
| Apogee: 283 kilometres (176 mi).[27] | |||||||
| 4 February 8:30:00 |
MRBM
|
Pacific Missile Range Facility
|
MDA
| ||||
| SFTM-01 Target
|
MDA | Suborbital | Radar target | 4 February | Successful | ||
| Ballistic missile target for interception[28] | |||||||
| 4 February ~8:30:00 |
SM-3
|
USS John Paul Jones, Kauai
|
MDA
| ||||
| SFTM-01 Interceptor
|
MDA | Suborbital | Test flight | 4 February | Successful | ||
| Ballistic missile interceptor[29] | |||||||
| 9 February 7:38:59 |
Minuteman-III
|
Vandenberg Air Force Base LF-10
|
US Air Force
| ||||
| US Air Force | Suborbital | Test flight | 9 February | Successful | |||
| 16 February | UGM-133 Trident II
|
USS Ohio (SSGN-726), Pacific Missile Range Facility
|
US Navy
| ||||
| US Navy | Suborbital | Missile test | 9 February | Successful | |||
| Follow-on Commander's Evaluation Test 53 | |||||||
| 16 February | UGM-133 Trident II
|
USS Ohio (SSGN-726), Pacific Missile Range Facility
|
US Navy
| ||||
| US Navy | Suborbital | Missile test | 9 February | Successful | |||
| Follow-on Commander's Evaluation Test 53 | |||||||
| 16 February | UGM-133 Trident II
|
USS Ohio (SSGN-726), Pacific Missile Range Facility
|
US Navy
| ||||
| US Navy | Suborbital | Missile test | 9 February | Successful | |||
| Follow-on Commander's Evaluation Test 53 | |||||||
| 16 February | UGM-133 Trident II
|
USS Ohio (SSGN-726), Pacific Missile Range Facility
|
US Navy
| ||||
| US Navy | Suborbital | Missile test | 9 February | Successful | |||
| Follow-on Commander's Evaluation Test 53 | |||||||
| 22 February 10:14:00 |
Black Brant IX
|
Poker Flat Research Range
|
NASA
| ||||
| ISINGLASS
|
Dartmouth College | Suborbital | Ionosphere research | 22 February | Successful | ||
| [30] | |||||||
Deep space rendezvous
| Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 February | Juno | 4th perijove of Jupiter | A decision was made to cancel a period reduction maneuver and remain in a 53-day orbit for the remainder of the mission over engine concerns.[31] |
| 27 March | Juno | 5th perijove of Jupiter | |
| 22 April 2017[32] | Cassini | 127th flyby of Titan | Closest approach: 979 kilometres (608 mi). |
| 15 September 2017 | Cassini | Atmospheric entry into Saturn | |
| 23 September 2017 | OSIRIS-REx | Flyby of Earth | Gravity Assist |
Extra-Vehicular Activities (EVAs)
| Start Date/Time | Duration | End Time | Spacecraft | Crew | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 January 12:23 |
6 hours 31 minutes |
18:54 | Expedition 50 ISS Quest |
The crew completed the installation of new batteries on the Station’s power channel 3A, and then executed a series of tasks to get ahead for the next EVA. Kimbrough collected photos of the AMS-02, then they removed a broken light on the S3 truss and routed ethernet cables on the Z1 truss. | |
| 13 January 11:22 |
5 hours 58 minutes |
17:20 | Expedition 50 ISS Quest |
The crew completed the installation of new batteries on the Station's power channel 1A, and then exucuted a series of get ahead tasks. First they installed a new camera on the Mobile Transporter Relay Assembly, then Pesquet replaced a Worksite Interface Adapter on Canadarm-2 and collected photos of Z1 truss and S0 truss, meanwhile Kimbrough removed 2 handrails from the Destiny module. Then they picked up a bundle of covers and brought them to the Tranquillity module where will be installed when Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 will be moved from Node 3 to Node 2. When removed, the PMA’s Common Berthing Mechanism will be covered up to protect it from the space environment. |
Orbital launch summary
By country
For the purposes of this section, the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. For example, Soyuz launches by Arianespace in Kourou are counted under Russia because Soyuz-2 is a Russian rocket.
| Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 China |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
 Europe |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
 India |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
 Japan |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
 Russia |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Includes 1 Soyuz launch from Kourou | |
 United States |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| World | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | ||
By rocket
By family
| Family | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariane | Europe |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Atlas | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Falcon | United States |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| H-II | Japan |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kuaizhou | China |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Long March | China |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| R-7 | Russia |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| S-Series | Japan |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| SLV | India |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
By type
| Rocket | Country | Family | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariane 5 | Europe |
Ariane | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Atlas V | United States |
Atlas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Falcon 9 | United States |
Falcon | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kuaizhou | China |
Kuaizhou | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| PSLV | India |
SLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| H-IIA | Japan |
H-II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Long March 3 | China |
Long March | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| SS-520 | Japan |
S-Series | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Soyuz | Russia |
R-7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
By configuration
| Rocket | Country | Type | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariane 5 ECA | Europe |
Ariane 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Atlas V 401 | United States |
Atlas V | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Falcon 9 Full Thrust | United States |
Falcon 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| H-IIA 204 | Japan |
H-IIA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| KZ-1A | China |
Kuaizhou | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Long March 3B | China |
Long March 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| PSLV-XL | India |
PSLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| SS-520-4 | Japan |
S-Series | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Soyuz 2.1b or STB | Russia |
Soyuz-2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Soyuz-U | Russia |
Soyuz | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Final flight |
By spaceport
| Site | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baikonur |  Kazakhstan |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cape Canaveral | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Jiuquan | China |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kennedy | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kourou |  France |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Satish Dhawan | India |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tanegashima | Japan |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Uchinoura | Japan |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Vandenberg | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Xichang | China |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
By orbit
| Orbital regime | Launches | Achieved | Not Achieved | Accidentally Achieved |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transatmospheric | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Low Earth | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | Including 2 to ISS |
| Geosynchronous/transfer | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Medium Earth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Earth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
References
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- Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now".
- Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)". CelesTrak.[dead link]
- Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches".
- Kyle, Ed. "Space Launch Report". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- McDowell, Jonathan. "GCAT Orbital Launch Log".
- Pietrobon, Steven. "Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive".
- Wade, Mark. "Encyclopedia Astronautica".
- Webb, Brian. "Southwest Space Archive".
- Zak, Anatoly. "Russian Space Web".
- "ISS Calendar". Spaceflight 101.
- "NSSDCA Master Catalog". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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- "Space Information Center". JAXA.[dead link]
- "Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).
Footnotes
- ^ a b c Smith, Heather (6 January 2017). "NASA awards four more commercial crew missions". Spaceflight Insider. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "SS-520 4号機実験結果について" (Press release) (in Japanese). JAXA. 15 January 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
- ^ SS-520 4号機実験の実施について (in Japanese). JAXA. 8 December 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
{{cite web}}: Invalid|script-title=: missing prefix (help) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao Clark, Stephen (8 February 2017). "Launch schedule". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ Peter B. de Selding [@pbdes] (28 October 2016). "CFO says SES-10 tentatively set for January launch on SpaceX Falcon 9" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Masunaga, Samantha (30 August 2016). "SpaceX signs first customer for launch of a reused rocket". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Pietrobon, Steven (5 February 2017). "Russian Launch Manifest". Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Building on its 2016 successes, Arianespace looks to the future with confidence at the service of its customers" (Press release). Arianespace. 4 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "The Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR Mission". NASA. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
Previously scheduled for a December 2016 launch on SpaceX-12, NICER will now fly to the International Space Station with two other payloads on SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)-11, in the Dragon vehicle's unpressurized Trunk.
- ^ a b Klotz, Irene (16 November 2016). "NASA, Russia Set Flights for Trimmed-Down Space Station Crew". space.com. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
- ^ Clark, Stephen (30 August 2016). "SES agrees to launch satellite on 'flight-proven' Falcon 9 rocket". Spaceflight Now.
Intelsat, one of the world's largest geostationary satellite operators alongside SES, has one launch reserved on a newly-built Falcon 9 rocket in the first quarter of 2017, when the Intelsat 35e satellite will launch from Cape Canaveral.
- ^ a b Foust, Jeff [@jeff_foust] (25 January 2017). "In talk on COSMIC-2, NOAA says Falcon Heavy demo launch scheduled for 2nd Q; STP-2 mission (with COSMIC-2) planned for Sept. 30" (Tweet). Retrieved 26 January 2017 – via Twitter.
- ^ a b c de Selding, Peter B. "Iridium subcontracts ride share aboard SpaceX Falcon 9". Space Intel Report. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ "Satellites". Es'hailSat. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Upcoming launches". SES S.A. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Angola's first satellite will be placed in orbit in 3rd quarter of 2017".
- ^ Krebs, Gunter. "NROL launches". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-01/22/c_136004958.htm
- ^ Showkat Kallol, Asif; Husain, Ishtiaq (30 January 2017). "Thales to use SpaceX's Falcon 9 to launch". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ http://team-hakuto.jp/5467/?lang=en
- ^ "Arianespace selected by Airbus Defence and Space to launch EDRS-C satellite". Arianespace. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ^ de Selding, Peter B. (3 November 2016). "Inmarsat, juggling two launches, says SpaceX to return to flight in December". SpaceNews.
With Inmarsat 5 F4, we're well up in the queue — I think we are number five or six. We have confidence that it will be a modest delay, and a high degree of confidence that we'll have 5-F4 up quite quickly in the new year.
- ^ Mike Gruss (18 May 2016). "NRO discloses previously unannounced launch contract for SpaceX". Space News.
- ^ a b c d Krebs, Gunter. "H-2A". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
- ^ Krebs, Gunter. "Gonets-M". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
- ^ "Manifest". Eurockot. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- ^ Koehler, Keith (27 January 2017). NASA Sounding Rocket Successfully Launches into Alaskan Night. NASA.
{{cite web}}: Invalid|script-title=: missing prefix (help) - ^ US, Japan Successfully Conduct First SM-3 Block IIA Intercept Test. Missile Defense Agency. 4 February 2017.
{{cite web}}: Invalid|script-title=: missing prefix (help) - ^ US, Japan Successfully Conduct First SM-3 Block IIA Intercept Test. Missile Defense Agency. 4 February 2017.
{{cite web}}: Invalid|script-title=: missing prefix (help) - ^ Koehler, Keith (22 February 2017). One Down, 3 to Go … Sounding Rocket Flies in Alaska to Study Auroras. NASA.
{{cite web}}: Invalid|script-title=: missing prefix (help) - ^ https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-juno-mission-to-remain-in-current-orbit-at-jupiter
- ^ "Cassini Solstice Mission: Saturn Tour Dates: 2017". saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
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| Selected NEOs | ||
| Exoplanets | ||
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| Space exploration |
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