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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.
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^ Alamalhoadei, Aria (6 November 2023). "Firefly's Blue Ghost lander represents a big bet on a future lunar economy" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 6 November 2023 .
^ "Firefly Completes Integration Readiness Review of its Blue Ghost Lunar Lander" . Firefly Aerospace . 26 April 2022. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022 .
^ Foust, Jeff (25 April 2024). "NASA planning September launch of Mars smallsat mission on first New Glenn" . SpaceNews . Retrieved 26 April 2024 .
^ "Europa Clipper" . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov . Retrieved 2021-08-23 .
^ Foust, Jeff (10 February 2021). "NASA to use commercial launch vehicle for Europa Clipper" . SpaceNews . Retrieved 14 May 2021 .
^ "Cost growth prompts changes to Europa Clipper instruments" . SpaceNews . 2020-07-10. Retrieved 2020-11-21 . Chodas said that Europa Clipper now has a launch readiness date of 2024, a year later than plans announced last year.
^ "Industry starts work on Europe's Hera planetary defence mission" . ESA . 15 September 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2021 .
^ "Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER)" . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov . Retrieved 2022-08-04 .
^ Loff, Sarah (2019-10-23). "New VIPER Lunar Rover to Map Water Ice on the Moon" . NASA . Retrieved 2019-10-28 .
^ Colaprete, Anthony (17 August 2020). "VIPER: A lunar water reconnaissance mission" (PDF) . NASA . Retrieved 25 August 2020 .
^ Foust, Jeff (31 October 2023). "Rocket Lab plans launch of Venus mission as soon as late 2024" . SpaceNews.com . Retrieved 31 October 2023 .
^ Jones, Andrew (6 November 2023). "Japan's mission to bizarre asteroid Phaethon delayed to 2025" . Space.com . Retrieved 18 December 2023 .
^ 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.
^ Kasai, Yasuko (13 June 2018). "Tera-hertz Explorer, TEREX, Mission" (PDF) . University of Tsukuba . NICT . Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2019 .
^ Jones, Andrew (2022-05-18). "China to launch Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling mission in 2025" . Space.com . Retrieved 2022-07-31 .
^ a b Tingley, Brett (9 January 2024). "Astronauts won't walk on the moon until 2026 after NASA delays next 2 Artemis missions" . Space.com . Retrieved 9 January 2024 .
^ "NASA's Artemis 2 mission set for November 2024" . Phys.org . Agence France-Presse . 7 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023 .
^ "Artemis III Launch - NASA" . Retrieved 2023-12-01 .
^ "MMX - Martian Moons eXploration" . MMX - Martian Moons eXploration . Retrieved 2 June 2024 . The current schedule has a launch date in JFY 2026, followed by Martian orbit insertion in JFY 2027 and the spacecraft will return to Earth in JFY 2031.
^ Jones, Andrew (5 August 2020). "China is moving ahead with lunar south pole and near-Earth asteroid missions" . SpaceNews . Retrieved 28 June 2022 .
^ a b "Ученый сообщил об активном ходе работ по импортозамещению комплектующих "Луны-27" " [The scientist reported on the active progress of work on import substitution of Luna-27 components]. TASS (in Russian). 19 July 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2023 .
^ "Dragonfly" . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov . Retrieved 2021-05-14 .
^ "NASA New Frontiers 5: Third Community Announcement" . NASA Science Mission Directorate . 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2021-05-14 . The launch date for Dragonfly, the fourth mission in the New Frontiers Program, has been delayed to June 2027.
^ "NASA, European Space Agency Unite to Land Europe's Rover on Mars - NASA" . Retrieved 2024-05-17 .
^ Foust, Jeff (2024-04-10). "ESA awards contract to Thales Alenia Space to restart ExoMars" . SpaceNews . Retrieved 2024-04-11 .
^ CNSA Watcher [@CNSAWatcher] (December 23, 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 .
^ Andrew Jones published (2022-09-22). "China wants to probe Uranus and Jupiter with 2 spacecraft on one rocket" . Space.com . Retrieved 2022-09-28 .
^ "Ariel moves from blueprint to reality" . ESA . 12 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020 .
^ "ESA's new mission to intercept a comet" . www.esa.int . Retrieved 2020-01-06 .
^ "Comet Interceptor" . www.cometinterceptor.space . Retrieved 2020-01-06 .
^ "NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study 'Lost Habitable' World of Venus - NASA" . Retrieved 2023-11-30 .
^ Jones, Andrew (2024-03-08). "China targets 2030 for Mars sample return mission, potential landing areas revealed" . SpaceNews . Retrieved 2024-03-13 .
^ "Борисов назвал сроки запуска миссий "Луна-26", "Луна-27" и "Луна-28" " . TACC (in Russian). Retrieved 2 June 2024 .
^ "FY 2025 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST SUMMARY" . NASA. Retrieved 2024-03-19 .
^ Wu, Weiren; Yu, Dengyun; Huang, Jiangchuan; Zong, Qiugang; Wang, Chi; Yu, Guobin; He, Rongwei; Wang, Qian; Kang, Yan; Meng, Linzhi; Wu, Ke; He, Jiansen; Li, Hui (2019-01-09). "Exploring the solar system boundary" . Scientia Sinica Informationis . 49 (1): 1. doi :10.1360/N112018-00273 . ISSN 2095-9486 . S2CID 86476811 .
^ Jones, Andrew (November 19, 2019). "China Considers Voyager-like Mission to Interstellar Space" . Planetary.org . The Planetary Society. Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ "ispace alters Moon mission timelines for greater response to customer needs" . NASASpaceFlight.com . 23 August 2019.
^ "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.
^ "The Space Review: Taking on the challenge of Mars sample return" . www.thespacereview.com . 2020-04-27. Retrieved 2020-05-24 .
^ Kenneth Chang (May 29, 2023). "The United Arab Emirates Is Heading for the Asteroid Belt" . The New York Times .
^ "ISRO discussing possible mission to moon with Japanese agency: S Somanath" . The Economic Times . 2023-03-22. ISSN 0013-0389 . Retrieved 2024-01-16 . Somanath also said there is a good opportunity to launch a mission to explore planet Venus by 2028.
^ Zak, Anatoly (5 March 2021). "New promise for the Venera-D project" . RussianSpaceWeb . Retrieved 7 March 2021 .
^ "In Depth | Europa Lander" . NASA Solar System Exploration . Retrieved 2020-05-24 .
^ "Final fiscal year 2019 budget bill secures $21.5 billion for NASA" . SpaceNews.com . 2019-02-17. Retrieved 2020-05-24 .