This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2025.
In 2025, NASA's Artemis Program is expected to launch the
Artemis III
Artemis 3 (officially Artemis III) is planned as the first crewed Moon landing mission of the Artemis program and the first crewed flight of the Starship HLS lander. Scheduled for launch in 2025, Artemis 3 is planned to be the second crewed Art ...
mission, which will land astronauts near the
south pole of the Moon
The lunar south pole is the southernmost point on the Moon, at 90°S. It is of special interest to scientists because of the occurrence of water ice in permanently shadowed areas around it. The lunar south pole region features craters that are ...
. It is expected to be the first mission to land humans on the Moon since 1972.
Russia plans to launch the
Spektr-UV
The Spektr-UV, also known as World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV), is a proposed ultraviolet space telescope intended for work in the 115 nm to 315 nm wavelength range. The launch had initially been planned for 2007, but has sinc ...
(World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet), a space telescope that will be developed by multiple nations.
China plans to launch the eXTP X-ray observatory.
China also plans to launch the
''ZhengHe'' asteroid and comet probe.
As of 2021, the mission of the ''
Juno
Juno commonly refers to:
* Juno (mythology), the Roman goddess of marriage and queen of the gods
* ''Juno'' (film), 2007
Juno may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media Fictional characters
*Juno, in the film ''Jenny, Juno''
*Juno, in the ...
'' spacecraft orbiting
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandt ...
is targeted to end no later than September 2025. NASA has stated that the mission could end sooner depending on potential damage from the system's radiation belts during fly-bys of
Europa
Europa may refer to:
Places
* Europe
* Europa (Roman province), a province within the Diocese of Thrace
* Europa (Seville Metro), Seville, Spain; a station on the Seville Metro
* Europa City, Paris, France; a planned development
* Europa Cliff ...
in 2022, and
Io in 2023 and 2024.
Orbital launches
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Suborbital flights
Deep-space rendezvous
Extravehicular activities (EVAs)
Orbital launch statistics
By country
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
Soyuz-2 (GRAU index 14A14) is a modernized version of the Soviet Soyuz rocket. In its basic form, it is a three-stage launch vehicle for placing payloads into low Earth orbit. Compared to the previous versions of the Soyuz, the first-stage b ...
is a Russian rocket.
By rocket
By family
By type
By configuration
By spaceport
By orbit
Notes
References
External links
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