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This is a list of proposed spacecraft that are planned to focus on the exploration of the Solar System, ordered by date of spacecraft launch.

Planned or scheduled

Mission name Launch date Description Ref(s)
India Aditya-L1 26 August 2023[needs update] Solar observation spacecraft [1][2]
Japan Smart Lander for Investigating Moon 26 August 2023[needs update] Small scale lunar lander [3]
United States Psyche 5 October 2023[needs update] Asteroid orbiter [4]
Japan France Germany MMX September 2024[needs update] Martian moon sample return mission [5][6][7]
United States Europa Clipper 10 October 2024[needs update] Jupiter orbiter, Europa multiple flyby [8][9][10]
European Union Hera October 2024[needs update] Asteroid 65803 Didymos rendezvous [11]
United States Artemis II November 2024[needs update] 4-person lunar flyby [12]
United States VIPER November 2024[needs update] Lunar rover [13][14][15]
Japan DESTINY+ 2024[needs update] Asteroid 3200 Phaethon flyby [16][17]
Japan Tera-hertz Explorer 2025 Mars orbiter and lander [18][19]
China Chang'e 6 May 2024[needs update] Lunar south pole sample return mission [20][21]
China Tianwen-2 May 2025 Asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa sample return, comet 311P/PanSTARRS orbiter [22]
China Chang'e 7 2026 Lunar south pole lander, rover and flying probe [23]
Russia Luna 26 2027 Lunar orbiter [24]
United States Dragonfly June 2027 Titan rotorcraft lander [25][26]
Russia Luna 27 2028 Lunar lander [24]
China Tianwen-3 2028 Mars sample return mission [27]
European Union Japan Comet Interceptor 2029 Flyby of an Oort Cloud comet [28][29][30]
China Tianwen-4 October 2029 Jupiter and Callisto Orbiter, Uranus flyby [31]
Russia Luna 28 2030 Lunar sample return mission [32]

Long-term proposals

Mission name Preliminary launch date estimate Description Ref(s)
Estimated launch date Estimate by Estimate as of
Japan Hakuto-R Mission 2 2023[needs update] ispace 2019 Private lunar lander and rover [33]
India Shukrayaan-1 2024[needs update] SpaceNews 2020 Venus orbiter [34]
India Mars Orbiter Mission 2 2024[needs update] Business Standard 2019 Mars orbiter [35]
United States Europa Lander 2025 SpaceNews 2019 Europa lander [36][37]
Russia Orel spacecraft 2026 RIA Novosti 2018 Uncrewed lunar orbit [38][39]
United States European Union NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return 2026 The Space Review 2020 Mars sample return mission [40]
European Union ExoMars 2028 European Space Agency 2022 Rosalind Franklin, Mars rover [41][42][43]
Russia Venera-D 2029 Russian Space Research Institute 2021 Venus orbiter and lander [44]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Aditya - L1 First Indian mission to study the Sun - ISRO". ISRO. 2016. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  3. ^ "About Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM)". Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  4. ^ "NASA Continues Psyche Asteroid Mission". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  6. ^ Yamakawa, Hiroshi; Le Gall, Jean-Yves; Ehrenfreund, Pascale; Dittus, Hansjörg (October 3, 2018). "Joint Statement with Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and German Aerospace Center (DLR) regarding Martian Moons eXploration" (PDF) (Press release). JAXA. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
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  8. ^ "Europa Clipper". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
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  11. ^ "Industry starts work on Europe's Hera planetary defence mission". ESA. 15 September 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
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  13. ^ "Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER)". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  14. ^ Loff, Sarah (2019-10-23). "New VIPER Lunar Rover to Map Water Ice on the Moon". NASA. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
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  18. ^ Takeshi Kuroda, Yasuko Kasai, Shinichi Nakasuka, Hiroyuki Maezawa, Takayoshi Yamada, Ryohei Takahashi: TEREX-1: A micro-satellite terahertz lander for the exploration of water/oxygen resources on Mars. 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Abstract B0.5-0006-21 (oral), id.223, January 2021.
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  20. ^ China N' Asia Spaceflight [@CNSpaceflight] (24 November 2022). "Update:
    2024 Queqiao-2 data relay
    2025 Chang'e-6 lunar sample return from far side
    2026 Chang'e-7 lunar landing in south pole
    2028 Chang'e-8 basic model of lunar research station"     (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  21. ^ "China aims to launch Chang'e-6 lunar probe around 2024". Xinhua News Agency. 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-05-14. China aims to launch the Chang'e-6 probe to collect samples in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon around 2024, said a space expert on Saturday.
  22. ^ Jones, Andrew (2022-05-18). "China to launch Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling mission in 2025". Space.com. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
  23. ^ Jones, Andrew (5 August 2020). "China is moving ahead with lunar south pole and near-Earth asteroid missions". SpaceNews. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
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  29. ^ "ESA's new mission to intercept a comet". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  30. ^ "Comet Interceptor". www.cometinterceptor.space. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
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  32. ^ @katlinegrey (11 August 2023). "Yuri Borisov: Roscosmos plans to launch #Luna26 in 2027, Luna-27 - in 2028, and Luna-28 - in 2030 or later. After that, the next goal will be a crewed mission to the Moon" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  33. ^ "ispace alters Moon mission timelines for greater response to customer needs". NASASpaceFlight.com. 23 August 2019.
  34. ^ Mehta, Jatan (2020-11-19). "India's Shukrayaan orbiter to study Venus for over four years, launches in 2024". SpaceNews. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  35. ^ "What is Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2019-10-26. ISRO now plans to develop and launch a follow-up mission called Mars Orbiter Mission 2 (MOM-2 or Mangalyaan-2) in 2024.
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  41. ^ "ExoMars 2022". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
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