2025 in spaceflight

2025 in spaceflight
Illustration of NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), scheduled to be launched in 2025.
Orbital launches
First4 January
Last10 January
Total6
Successes6
Failures0
Partial failures0
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Spaceflight in 2025 promises to follow the 2020s trend of record breaking orbital launches (with at least 300 expected) and increased developments in lunar, Mars and low-earth orbit exploration.

ESA plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in the third quarter of the year.[1]

China plans to launch the Tianwen-2 (ZhengHe) asteroid sample-return and comet probe.[2]

SpaceX expects to perform an in-space propellant transfer demonstration using two docked Starships in 2025—a critical milestone that will allow SpaceX to refuel their Starship HLS vehicle for an uncrewed lunar landing demonstration in the following year.[3]

Kuiper Systems, Amazon’s satellite internet subsidiary, plans to ramp up launches for its constellation of over 3,000 satellites. The launches will occur on Falcon 9, Ariane 6, Vulcan Centaur and New Glenn launch vehicles.[4]

Vast plans to launch the first ever commercial space station in 2025.[5]

Blue Origin plans to launch their MK1 Lunar Lander as a "pathfinder" mission in 2025.[6]

  1. ^ Richards, Bella (26 August 2023). "ESA's Space Rider likely to launch third quarter of 2025, program manager says". NASASpaceFlight. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  2. ^ Jones, Andrew (26 June 2023). "China conducts parachute tests for asteroid sample return mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  3. ^ Berger, Eric (11 June 2024). "As NASA watches Starship closely, here's what the agency wants to see next". Ars Technica. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  4. ^ Rivera, Mikayla (17 January 2024). "Project Kuiper: Amazon's Satellite Internet Provider". SatelliteInternet.com. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Vast Space Station To Use SpaceX Starlink Laser Comms | Aviation Week Network". aviationweek.com. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  6. ^ Foust, Jeff (8 March 2024). "Blue Origin aims to launch first lunar lander in 2025". SpaceNews. Retrieved 13 May 2024.

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