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

China National Space Administration The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is a government agency of the People's Republic of China headquartered in Haidian District, Haidian, Beijing, responsible for civil space administration and international space cooperation. These ...

(CNSA) plans to launch

Tianwen-4 ''Tianwen-4'' (), formerly known as ''Gan De'' (), is a planned Chinese interplanetary mission to study the Jovian system, possibly sharing a launch with a spacecraft which will make a flyby of Uranus. Overview The goals of the planned ''Tia ...

, a Jupiter orbiter and Uranus flyby mission, in 2029.

ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 23-member international organization devoted to space exploration. With its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around 2,547 people globally as of 2023, ESA was founded in 1975 in the context of European ...

plans to launch the

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space telescope and the

Comet Interceptor The ''Comet Interceptor'' is a robotic spacecraft mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) planned for launch in 2029. The spacecraft will be "parked" at the Lagrangian point, Sun-Earth L2 point and wait for up to three years for a long-p ...

mission in 2029.

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 Soyuz2 (; GRAU index: 14A14) is a Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicle and the seventh major iteration of the Soyuz rocket family. Compared to its predecessors, Soyuz-2 features significant upgrades, including improved engines and ...

is a Russian rocket.

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