Upcoming Planetary Events and Missions

Upcoming Planetary Launches and Events

2011 December31 - GRAIL-A - Goes into lunar orbit

2012 January 1 - GRAIL-B - Goes into lunar orbit
2012 May 22 - Dawn - Leaves asteroid Vesta, heads for asteroid 1 Ceres
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

2013 March - LADEE - Launch of NASA Orbiter to the Moon
2013 November - MAVEN - Launch of Mars Orbiter

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 February 1 - Dawn - Goes into orbit around asteroid 1 Ceres
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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Last Updated: 01 December 2011, DRW