This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.
The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches.
For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line, the FAI-recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL). The timeline contains all the flights which have either crossed the edge of space, were intended to do so but failed, or are planned in the near future. Notable test flights of spaceflight systems may be listed even if they were not planned to reach space. Some lists are further divided into orbital launches (sending a payload into orbit, whether successful or not) and suborbital flights (e.g. ballistic missiles, sounding rockets, experimental spacecraft).
Launch Statistics (1957-2025)
50 100 150 200 250 300 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025- Failure
- Partial failure
- Success
- Planned
Orbital and Suborbital launches by year
Before 1951
1951-1959
- 1951 in spaceflight
- 1952 in spaceflight
- 1953 in spaceflight
- 1954 in spaceflight
- 1955 in spaceflight
- 1956 in spaceflight
- 1957 in spaceflight (First Orbital launch)
- 1958 in spaceflight
- 1959 in spaceflight
1960-1969
- 1960 in spaceflight
- 1961 in spaceflight
- 1962 in spaceflight
- 1963 in spaceflight
- 1964 in spaceflight
- 1965 in spaceflight
- 1966 in spaceflight
- 1967 in spaceflight
- 1968 in spaceflight
- 1969 in spaceflight
1970-1979
- 1970 in spaceflight
- 1971 in spaceflight
- 1972 in spaceflight
- 1973 in spaceflight
- 1974 in spaceflight
- 1975 in spaceflight
- 1976 in spaceflight
- 1977 in spaceflight
- 1978 in spaceflight
- 1979 in spaceflight
1980-1989
- 1980 in spaceflight
- 1981 in spaceflight
- 1982 in spaceflight
- 1983 in spaceflight
- 1984 in spaceflight
- 1985 in spaceflight
- 1986 in spaceflight
- 1987 in spaceflight
- 1988 in spaceflight
- 1989 in spaceflight
1990-1999
- 1990 in spaceflight
- 1991 in spaceflight
- 1992 in spaceflight
- 1993 in spaceflight
- 1994 in spaceflight
- 1995 in spaceflight
- 1996 in spaceflight
- 1997 in spaceflight
- 1998 in spaceflight
- 1999 in spaceflight
2000-2009
- 2000 in spaceflight
- 2001 in spaceflight
- 2002 in spaceflight
- 2003 in spaceflight
- 2004 in spaceflight
- 2005 in spaceflight
- 2006 in spaceflight
- 2007 in spaceflight
- 2008 in spaceflight
- 2009 in spaceflight
2010-2019
- 2010 in spaceflight
- 2011 in spaceflight
- 2012 in spaceflight
- 2013 in spaceflight
- 2014 in spaceflight
- 2015 in spaceflight
- 2016 in spaceflight
- 2017 in spaceflight
- 2018 in spaceflight
- 2019 in spaceflight
2020-2029
- 2020 in spaceflight
- 2021 in spaceflight
- 2022 in spaceflight
- 2023 in spaceflight
- 2024 in spaceflight
- 2025 in spaceflight
- 2026 in spaceflight
- 2027 in spaceflight
- 2028 in spaceflight
- 2029 in spaceflight
Spaceflight after 2029
Deep-space rendezvous after 2029
| Date (UTC) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 December 2030 | Lucy | Third gravity assist at Earth | Target altitude 660 km |
| July 2031 | Hayabusa2 | Arrival at asteroid 1998 KY262 | |
| July 2031 | JUICE | Flyby of Ganymede | |
| July 2031 | JUICE | Jupiter orbit insertion | |
| July 2032 | JUICE | Flyby of Europa | |
| 2 March 2033 | Lucy | Flyby of binary asteroid 617 Patroclus-Menoetius | Target altitude 1000 km |
| December 2034 | JUICE | Ganymede orbit insertion | Planned first orbit of a moon other than Earth's |
See also
- Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
- Launch vehicle
- List of crewed spacecraft
- Outer space
- Space exploration
- Space launch market competition
- Timeline of private spaceflight
- Timeline of Solar System exploration
- Timeline of space exploration
- History of spaceflight
External links
- Bergin, Chris. "NASASpaceFlight.com".
- Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now".
- Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)". CelesTrak.
- 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.
- "Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).
- "Rocket Launch Manifest". Next Spaceflight.
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References
"Statement about the Karman Line | World Air Sports Federation". www.fai.org. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2024. https://www.fai.org/news/statement-about-karman-line ↩
"はやぶさ２、次のミッションは小惑星「１９９８ＫＹ２６」…ＪＡＸＡ". The Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 13 September 2020. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201205174454/https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/20200913-OYT1T50040/ ↩