Upcoming Launches
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Dockings, landings, flybys, orbit insertions and press events: everything that happens after liftoff.
Venus
Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on December 24, 2026. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles.

Earth
NASA’s Europa Clipper will fly by Earth for a second and final gravity assist on its way to Jupiter.

(3548) Eurybates
Flyby of the Trojan asteroid (3548) Eurybates and its satellite Queta by NASA's Lucy mission.

(15094) Polymele
Flyby of the Trojan asteroid (15094) Polymele by NASA's Lucy mission.
Venus
Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on March 17, 2028. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles.

Earth
Fourth flyby of ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission on its way to the Jovian system.

Venus
Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on June 10, 2029. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles.
Venus
Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on September 2, 2030. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles.

Earth
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(11351) Leucus
Flyby of the Trojan asteroid (11351) Leucus by NASA's Lucy mission.


Third and final Earth flyby of NASA's Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids.
