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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 {{CURRENTYEAR}} 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 {{convert|100|km|abbr=off}} above mean sea level (AMSL).{{Cite web |date=2018-11-30 |title=Statement about the Karman Line {{!}} World Air Sports Federation |url=https://www.fai.org/news/statement-about-karman-line |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=www.fai.org |language=en}} 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).

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Launch Statistics (1957-2025)

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Orbital and Suborbital launches by year

=Before 1951=

=1951-1959=

=1960-1969=

=1970-1979=

=1980-1989=

=1990-1999=

=2000-2009=

=2010-2019=

=2020-2029=

=Spaceflight after 2029=

Deep-space rendezvous after 2029

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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 KY26{{cite news |date=September 13, 2020 |title=はやぶさ２、次のミッションは小惑星「１９９８ＫＹ２６」…ＪＡＸＡ |url=https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/20200913-OYT1T50040/ |language=ja |newspaper=The Yomiuri Shimbun |access-date=2020-09-14 |archive-date=5 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205174454/https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/20200913-OYT1T50040/ |url-status=dead }}

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July 2031

| JUICE

| Flyby of Ganymede

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July 2031

| JUICE

| Jupiter orbit insertion

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July 2032

| JUICE

| Flyby of Europa

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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

References

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External links

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