List of proposed Solar System spacecraft

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.

Planned or scheduled
Rosalind Franklin rover of Euro-Russian ExoMars mission
Mission name Launch date Description Ref(s)
CAPSTONE 18 April 2021 Lunar orbiter [1]
DART 22 July 2021 Asteroid 65803 Didymos impactor [2][3]
Luna 25 1 October 2021 First mission of the Luna-Glob Moon exploration programme, lunar south pole lander [4][5][6]
Lucy 16 October 2021 Flyby of six Jupiter trojan asteroids [7][8]
James Webb Space Telescope 31 October 2021 Orbital space telescope [9][10]
Artemis 1 November 2021 Uncrewed lunar orbital test of Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System [11][12]
Aditya-L1 January 2022 Solar observation spacecraft [13][14][15]
SLIM January 2022 Lunar lander [16]
JUICE June 2022 Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa flyby; Ganymede orbiter [17][18][19]
Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter July 2022 Lunar orbiter [20]
Psyche August 2022 Metallic asteroid 16 Psyche orbiter [21][22]
ExoMars 2022 Mars lander and rover [23][24]
Tera-hertz Explorer 2022 Mars lander [25]
VIPER November 2023 Lunar rover [26][27]
Luna 26 13 November 2024 Lunar orbiter [4][5][28][29]
MMX September 2024 Martian moon sample return mission [30][31]
DESTINY+ 2024 Asteroid 3200 Phaethon flyby [32][33]
Europa Clipper 2024 Europa orbiter [34][35][36]
Hera 2024 Asteroid 65803 Didymos rendezvous [37][38]
Luna 27 August 2025 Lunar south pole lander and rover [4][5][28][39]
Dragonfly 2027 Titan rotorcraft lander [40][41][42][43]
Comet Interceptor 2029 Flyby of an Oort Cloud comet [44][45][46]

Long-term proposals
Mission name Preliminary launch date estimate Description Ref(s)
Estimated launch date Estimate by Estimate as of
Peregrine lunar lander July 2021 Astrobotic Technology 2019 Lunar lander [47]
Chang'e 6 2023 Encyclopædia Britannica 2019 Lunar sample return mission [48]
Hakuto-R Mission 2 2023 ispace 2019 Private lunar lander and rover [49]
Shukrayaan-1 2023 Raman Research Institute 2016 Venus orbiter [50][51][52]
Mars Orbiter Mission 2 NET 2024 Business Standard 2020 Mars orbiter [53][54][55]
Chandrayaan-3 2024 India Today 2019 Lunar lander and rover [56][57][58]
Europa Lander 2025 SpaceNews 2019 Europa lander [59][60]
Orel spacecraft 2026 RIA Novosti 2018 Uncrewed lunar orbit [61][62]
2026 The Space Review 2020 Mars sample return mission [63]
Venera-D 2026–2031 Lunar and Planetary Institute 2017 Venus orbiter and lander [64]
M1 2031 RIA Novosti 2019 Crewed lunar landing [65][62]
M2 2032 RIA Novosti 2019 Crewed lunar landing with lunar rover [65]
M3 2033 RIA Novosti 2019 Crewed lunar landing with lunar rover [65]
M4 2034 RIA Novosti 2019 Crewed lunar landing; construction of lunar base [65]
M5 2035 RIA Novosti 2019 Crewed lunar landing; completion of lunar base [65]
After 2040–2045 Nikolai Panichkin, TsNIIMash 2011 Crewed phase of the Russian Mars exploration program [66]

See also

References
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