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2029 in spaceflight
The Exoplanet Telescope Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL) is planned to be launched in 2029.
2029 in spaceflight

This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2029.

CNSA Planned to launch the Tianwen-4 Jupiter orbiter and Uranus flyby spacecraft in 2029.

Russia expects to launch the Venera-D Venus Orbiter in 2029.

ESA planned to launch ARIEL Space Telescope and Comet Interceptor Mission in 2029.

Orbital launches

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Date and time (UTC) Rocket Flight number Launch site LSP
Payload
(⚀ = CubeSat) 		Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC) Outcome
Remarks




June

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Q2 (TBD)[1] Europe Vega-C France Kourou ELV France Arianespace
TBA TBA Low Earth TBA  
Small Satellites Mission Service (SSMS) #20 rideshare mission.
Q2 (TBD)[3] TBA TBA TBA
Europe CO2M-C (Sentinel-7C) ESA Low Earth (SSO) Earth observation  
Third satellite (option) of the Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission.[2] Part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme.


September

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September (TBD)[4][5] China Long March 5 China Wenchang LC-1 China CASC
China Tianwen-4 Jupiter orbiter CNSA Jovicentric Jupiter orbiter  
China Tianwen-4 Uranus flyby spacecraft CNSA Heliocentric to escape velocity Uranus flyby  
Dual-launch of a Chinese Jupiter orbiter and Uranus flyby spacecraft.
Q3 (TBD)[1] Europe Ariane 64 France Kourou ELA-4 France Arianespace
TBA TBA Geosynchronous TBA  
Multi-Launch Service (MLS) #4 rideshare mission.
Q3 (TBD)[3][6] Europe Vega-C France Kourou ELV France Arianespace
Europe CIMR A (Sentinel-11A) ESA Low Earth (SSO) Oceanography  
First of two satellites for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) mission. Part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme.


December

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Q4 (TBD)[1] Europe Vega-C France Kourou ELV France Arianespace
TBA TBA Low Earth TBA  
SSMS #21 rideshare mission.

To Be Determined

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2029 (TBD)[7] Russia Angara A5 / DM-03 Russia Vostochny Site 1A Russia Roscosmos
Russia Venera-D Roscosmos Heliocentric TBA  
2029 (TBD)[8][9] Russia Angara A5P Russia Vostochny Site 1A Russia Roscosmos
Russia Orel Roscosmos Low Earth Crewed flight test  
2029 (TBD)[10][11] Europe Ariane 62 France Kourou ELA-4 France Arianespace
Europe ARIEL ESA Sun–Earth L2 Exoplanetary science  
Europe Japan Comet Interceptor ESA / JAXA Sun–Earth L2 Comet flyby  
JFY2029 (TBD)[12] Japan Epsilon S Japan Uchinoura Japan JAXA
Japan Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-6 JAXA Low Earth Technology demonstration  
Part of JAXA's Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration Program.
JFY2029 (TBD)[12] Japan H3 Japan Tanegashima LA-Y2 Japan MHI
Japan IGS-Radar Diversification 1 CSICE Low Earth (SSO) Reconnaissance  
First of a new generation of IGS-Radar satellites.
JFY2029 (TBD)[12] Japan H3 Japan Tanegashima LA-Y2 Japan MHI
Japan IGS-Optical 10 CSICE Low Earth (SSO) Reconnaissance  
2029 (TBD)[13] United States New Glenn United States Cape Canaveral LC-36 United States Blue Origin
United States Blue Moon MK2 Blue Origin / NASA Selenocentric (NRHO) Crewed lunar lander  
Sustaining HLS Crewed Lunar Demo for Artemis 5.
2029 (TBD)[14][15] Argentina Tronador II-250 Argentina Manuel Belgrano Space Center Argentina CONAE
Argentina CONAE Low Earth Flight test  
Maiden flight of Tronador II-250.
2029 (TBD)[6] Europe Vega-C France Kourou ELV France Arianespace
Europe CHIME (Sentinel-10) ESA Low Earth (SSO) Earth observation  
Part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme.
2029 (TBD)[6] Europe Vega-C France Kourou ELV France Arianespace
Europe LSTM (Sentinel-8) ESA Low Earth (SSO) Earth observation  
Part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme.
2029 (TBD)[16][17] Russia TBA Kazakhstan Baikonur or Russia Vostochny Russia Roscosmos
Russia Ekspress-36 RSCC Geosynchronous Communications  
Replacement for Ekspress-AMU1 at 36° East.
2029 (TBD)[18][19] Europe Vega-C France Kourou ELV France Arianespace
Europe Harmony A (Concordia) ESA Low Earth (SSO) Earth observation  
Europe Harmony B (Discordia) ESA Low Earth (SSO) Earth observation  
Tenth Earth Explorers mission.
2029 (TBD)[20] United States TBA United States TBA United States TBA
United States Venus Atmosphere Sample Return Mission MIT Heliocentric to Venus Venus sample return  
Third of three MIT missions to Venus to study its atmosphere.


Suborbital flights

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Date and time (UTC) Rocket Flight number Launch site LSP
Payload
(⚀ = CubeSat) 		Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC) Outcome
Remarks

Deep-space rendezvous

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Date (UTC) Spacecraft Event Remarks
18 January 2029 JUICE Third and final gravity assist at Earth
21 April 2029 OSIRIS-APEX Rendezvous with asteroid 99942 Apophis[21] Observation operations begin 8 April
August 2029 Psyche Arrival at asteroid 16 Psyche

Extravehicular activities (EVAs)

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Start Date/Time Duration End Time Spacecraft Crew Remarks

Orbital launch statistics

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By country

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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.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "All flights opportunities". Arianespace. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite given the shakes". ESA. 10 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Planned launches". EUMETSAT. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  4. ^ CNSA Watcher [@CNSAWatcher] (23 December 2023). "Tianwen-4, launching Sept 2029, will journey to Jupiter using Venus & Earth gravity assists. Targeting Jupiter capture by Dec 2035 & a Uranus flyby in March 2045, the mission includes 2 probes, one exploring Jupiter's system and another flying by Uranus" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ Jones, Andrew (22 September 2022). "China wants to probe Uranus and Jupiter with 2 spacecraft on one rocket". Space.com. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  6. ^ a b c Parsonson, Andrew (13 November 2020). "ESA signs a trio of Copernicus contracts worth 1.3 billion euros". SpaceNews. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  7. ^ Forrester, Chris (6 August 2024). "Venera D Mission". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  8. ^ Katya Pavlushchenko [@katlinengrey] (15 August 2023). "Both the first uncrewed test flight and the first crewed test flight of the planned #Oryol spacecraft are scheduled for 2028, said the chief designer of ROS (it's not a misprint, now they call it ROS instead of ROSS), deputy director of RSC Energia Vladimir Kozhevnikov" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  9. ^ "Определен срок полета российского корабля "Орел" с экипажем на МКС" [The scheduled time for the first crewed flight of the Russian spacecraft Orel to the ISS has been determined]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 13 February 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  10. ^ "Ariel moves from blueprint to reality". ESA. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  11. ^ Lakdawalla, Emily (21 June 2019). "ESA to Launch Comet Interceptor Mission in 2028". The Planetary Society. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  12. ^ a b c "宇宙基本計画⼯程表 (令和５年度改訂)" [Basic Plan on Space Policy (2023 Revision)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Cabinet Office. 22 December 2023. p. 45. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 December 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  13. ^ Foust, Jeff (19 May 2023). "NASA selects Blue Origin to develop second Artemis lunar lander". SpaceNews. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  14. ^ Mazzini Puga, Luciana (9 June 2023). "Hacia la soberanía espacial: el lanzador de satélites Tronador II estará listo en 2029" [Towards space sovereignty: the Tronador II satellite launcher will be ready in 2029]. Agencia de Noticias Cientificas (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  15. ^ "Argentina's ambitious plan to launch satellites with its own rocket". natescrest. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  16. ^ Shulgin, Dmitry (21 January 2021). "Российский "Экспресс" набирает обороты" [Russian "Ekspress" gaining momentum]. RSCC (in Russian). p. 5. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  17. ^ Holmes, Mark (15 October 2020). "Russian Space Leaders Split on GEO vs LEO at SatComRus". Via Satellite. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  18. ^ "Harmony Mission". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  19. ^ "ESA selects Harmony as tenth Earth Explorer mission". ESA. 22 September 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  20. ^ "Venus Life Finder Mission Study" (PDF). Venus Cloud Life. MIT. 10 December 2021. pp. 42–52. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  21. ^ Lauretta, D. S.; Bierhaus, E. B.; Binzel, R. P.; Bos, B. J. (6 November 2020). OSIRIS-REx at Apophis: Opportunity for an Extended Mission (PDF). Apophis T–9 Years: Knowledge Opportunities for the Science of Planetary Defense.
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