Flashcards: Future spaceflights

Tiangong-3 (Chinese: 天宫三号; pinyin: Tiāngōng sānhào; literally: "Heavenly Palace 3") will be a Chinese space station module, part of the Tiangong space station program.

CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) is a planned European space telescope for the study of the formation of extrasolar planets.

Soyuz MS-02 is a Soyuz spaceflight that was planned for a 23 September 2016 launch, but because of technical difficulties it launched on 19 October 2016.

Chandrayaan-2 (Sanskrit: चन्द्रयान-२; Sanskrit: [ t͡ʃʌnd̪ɾʌːjaːn d̪ʋi]; lit: Moon-vehicle ) is India's second lunar exploration mission after Chandrayaan-1.

The Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission (also known as the Europa Clipper) is an interplanetary mission in development by NASA comprising an orbiter and a lander.

Solar Orbiter (SolO) is a planned Sun-observing satellite, under development by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a planned space telescope for NASA's Explorers program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method.

The Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics (ATHENA) is a planned X-ray telescope of the European Space Agency.

HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe was the first rocket and spacecraft combination built by Copenhagen Suborbitals, a Danish organization attempting to perform the first amateur suborbital manned spaceflight.

Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE) is a proposed space telescope for NASA's Explorer program to observe circumstellar protoplanetary and debris discs and study planet formation around nearby (within 100 parsecs) stars of spectral classes M to B.

Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+, previously NASA Solar Probe, is a planned robotic spacecraft to probe the outer corona of the Sun.

BepiColombo is a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) to the planet Mercury.

The Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station is a proposed orbital space station intended for commercial clients.

Skylon is a design for a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane by the British company Reaction Engines Limited (REL), using SABRE, a combined-cycle, air-breathing rocket propulsion system, potentially reusable for 200 flights.

Tianzhou 1 is the planned debut mission of the Tianzhou-class unmanned cargo spacecraft.

Cygnus CRS OA-11, also known as OrbitalATK CRS Flight 11, is the twelfth planned flight of the Orbital ATK' unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its eleventh flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Astrobotic Technology is an American privately held company that is developing space robotics technology for planetary missions.

The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a planned small X-ray telescope satellite under development by China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the French Space Agency (CNES), to be launched in 2021.

Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG) is a planned research satellite that will be used to study the Van Allen belts.

The Emirates Mars Mission or Hope Mars Mission (Arabic: مسبار الأمل‎‎) is a space exploration program to Mars, set to be launched by the United Arab Emirates.

Cygnus CRS OA-10E, also known as Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 10E, is the eleventh planned flight of the Orbital ATK' unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its tenth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cygnus CRS OA-7, also known as Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 7, is the eighth planned flight of the Orbital ATK unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its seventh flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cygnus CRS OA-8E, also known as Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 8E, is the ninth planned flight of the Orbital ATK unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its eighth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cygnus CRS OA-9E, also known as Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 9E, is the tenth planned flight of the Orbital ATK unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its ninth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Hispasat Advanced Generation 1 (Hispasat AG1), also designated Hispasat 36W-1, is a planned Spanish communications satellite which will be part of Hispasat.

OpenLuna is a program for the exploration of the Moon, based on open source ideologies.

The Hope (Arabic: مسبار الأمل‎‎) spacecraft orbiter is a planned 2020 unmanned mission to Mars by the United Arab Emirates to study the Martian atmosphere and climate.

Omran Sharaf is the Project Manager of the United Arab Emirates' first Mission to Mars (Hope) and the Director of the Programs Management Department at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre.

The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a future infrared space observatory that was recommended in 2010 by United States National Research Council Decadal Survey committee as the top priority for the next decade of astronomy.

ADM-Aeolus, or, in full, Atmospheric Dynamics Mission Aeolus, is an Earth observation satellite built by the European Space Agency that is due for launch in 2017.

Aalto-1 is a Finnish research nanosatellite, created by students of Helsinki's Aalto University.