By Gurpreet Singh | October 3, 2025
India’s Gaganyaan mission aims to send astronauts into space, marking a significant milestone in ISRO’s human spaceflight program.
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NASA’s Artemis II mission, scheduled for April 2026, will be the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon since Apollo.
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ISRO’s Chandrayaan-4 mission, planned for 2027, aims to return lunar samples to Earth, continuing India’s lunar exploration efforts.
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ESA’s reusable, uncrewed spaceplane for microgravity experiments in low Earth orbit, launching in 2027.
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Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper will reach Jupiter by April 2030, performing 49 flybys of Europa. This will study properties of Jupiter.
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ESA’s SMILE mission, launching late 2025, studies solar wind interactions with Earth’s magnetosphere causing auroras.
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NASA’s Dragonfly mission, set to launch in July 2028, will send a rotorcraft to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, to study its prebiotic chemistry.
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ISRO’s LVM3 will launch AST SpaceMobile’s massive BlueBird Block-2 satellite, enabling direct-to-smartphone broadband in late 2025.
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NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme mission to study lunar geology and test technologies for future human exploration, launching in 2026.
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ClearSpace-1 which will launch in year 2026, aims to remove space debris by capturing a defunct satellite, promoting safer and sustainable space operations.
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