Upcoming Space Events:
BepiColombo Mercury Flyby
Last of six Mercury flybys of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission before entering orbit around its destination planet in 2025.
Event Location: Mercury
UTC Event Time: Jan. 9, 2025, midnight
Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/roscosmos-spacewalk-63/
Solar Orbiter Venus Flyby
Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on February 18, 2025. 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.
Event Location: Venus
UTC Event Time: Feb. 18, 2025, midnight
Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/roscosmos-spacewalk-63/
Lucy Main Belt Asteroid (52246) Donaldjohansen Flyby
Flyby of the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohansen asteroid by NASA's Lucy mission.
Event Location: (52246) Donaldjohansen
UTC Event Time: April 20, 2025, midnight
Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/roscosmos-spacewalk-63/
Boeing Starliner-1 Docking
The Starliner-1 spacecraft will dock autonomously to the International Space Station, carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station.
Event Location: International Space Station
UTC Event Time: Aug. 31, 2025, midnight
Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/roscosmos-spacewalk-63/
Boeing Starliner-1 Landing
Following its deorbit burn, the Boeing CST-100 Starliner will reenter the Earth's atmosphere and land at the White Sands Missile Range using its parachutes.
Event Location: White Sands Missile Range
UTC Event Time: Aug. 31, 2025, midnight
Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/roscosmos-spacewalk-63/
Boeing Starliner-1 Undocking
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner will undock from the International Space Station and conduct a deorbit burn as part of its first operational mission. Following the deorbit burn the capsule will renter the Earth's atmosphere and land at the 'White Sands Missile Range' using its parachutes.
Event Location: International Space Station
UTC Event Time: Aug. 31, 2025, midnight
Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/progress-90-cargo-ship-docking/
Juice Venus Flyby
Second flyby of ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission on its way to the Jovian system.
Event Location: Venus
UTC Event Time: Aug. 31, 2025, midnight
Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
HTV-X1 Rendezvous and Capture
NASA TV will live stream the rendezvous and capture of JAXA's HTV-X1 cargo craft to the International Space Station.
Event Location: International Space Station
UTC Event Time: Dec. 31, 2025, midnight
Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
SNC-1 Dream Chaser Berthing
NASA TV will livestream the rendezvous and capture of Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser cargo craft to the International Space Station.
Event Location: International Space Station
UTC Event Time: Dec. 31, 2025, midnight
Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
US EVA-91
NASA astronauts will exit the station’s Quest airlock to complete the removal of a faulty electronics box, called a radio frequency group, from a communications antenna on the starboard truss of the space station. The pair also will collect samples for analysis to understand the ability of microorganisms to survive and reproduce on the exterior of the orbiting laboratory.
Event Location: International Space Station
UTC Event Time: Dec. 31, 2025, midnight
Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg