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By Emily Lakdawalla

Future Space Events of Note

This is a list of future space events that I'm planning to keep an eye on. I list space and major mission events going out several years, but meetings only for the upcoming year. Have any suggestions for additions?

2009
	October 9 04:31 PDT: LCROSS: Lunar impact
MEETING	October 12-16: 60yh International Astronautical Congress, Daejeon, South Korea. IAC 2009 website
	October 12: Cassini: Titan flyby (119TI or T62)
	October 13-14: Cassini: distant Rhea, Mimas, and Tethys flybys
MEETING	October 28-29: Venus Exploration and Analysis Group (VEXAG) meeting, Irvine, California. VEXAG website
	November 2: Cassini: targeted Enceladus flyby (120EN or E7) November 21: Cassini: targeted Enceladus flyby (121EN or E8)
	November 12: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-129 mission to deliver lots of spare parts to the station, to be stored outside
	November 13: Rosetta: Earth flyby #3
MEETING	November 16-19: Lunar Exploration and Analysis Group (LEAG) meeting, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. LEAG website
	November 21: Cassini: distant Rhea flyby
	December 7: WISE: launch
	December 12: Cassini: Titan flyby (122TI or T63)
MEETING	December 14-18: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California AGU meeting website
	December 26: Cassini: distant Tethys flyby
	December 28: Cassini: Titan flyby (123TI or T64)
2010
	February 3: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): Launch
	February 4: Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-130 mission to deliver final connecting node, Node 3, and "the Cupola, a robotic control station with six windows around its sides and another in the center that provides a 360-degree view around the station."
MEETING	March 1-5: 41st Meeting of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX (Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, near IAH.) meeting website
MEETING	March 17-18: Meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), Monrovia, California. MEPAG website
	March 18: Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-131 mission to deliver science racks to the space station. Unless plans change, this will be Discovery's last flight.
	May: Venus Climate Orbiter/PLANET-C: Launch
MEETING	May 2-7: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. EGU 2010 website
	May 14: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-132 mission to deliver spare parts and a Russian Mini Research Module to the space station. Unless plans change, this will be Atlantis' last flight.
	June: Hayabusa: Possible return to Earth?
MEETING	July: Third MSL Landing Site Engineering Assessment Workshop
	July 10: Rosetta: Asteroid Lutetia flyby
MEETING	July 18-25: 8th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space research (COSPAR), Bremen, Germany meeting website
	July 29: Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-133 mission to deliver spare parts. Unless plans change, this will be Endeavour's last flight.
MEETING	September: Fourth MSL Landing Site Community Workshop
MEETING	October 3-8: 42nd annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (Pasadena, California)
	October 11: Deep Impact: Comet 103P/Hartley 2 flyby
	December: Venus Climate Orbiter/PLANET-C: Venus arrival
MEETING	December 13-17: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California AGU meeting website
2011
	February 14: Stardust: Flyby of comet Tempel 1
	March 18: MESSENGER: Mercury orbit insertion
	March 22: New Horizons: Passes mean orbital distance of Uranus
	July: Dawn: Vesta arrival
	August 11: Juno: Launch period opens
	October: Mars Science Laboratory: launch period opens
	October: Phobos Grunt and Yinghuo-1: launch
MEETING	October: 43nd annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (Nantes, France; joint with EPSC?)
2012
	March 18: MESSENGER: End of nominal mission
	July: Dawn: Vesta departure
2013
	December?: MAVEN: Launch period opens
2014
	May: Rosetta: Arrival at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
	August 10: International Cometary Explorer: Return to Earth
	August 29: New Horizons: Passes mean orbital distance of Neptune
	June-September: Exomars: Mars landing
2015
	January-July: New Horizons: Pluto/Charon flyby
	August: New Horizons: Kuiper belt object targeting maneuver (will set up future Kuiper belt object flyby TBD)
	February: Dawn: Ceres arrival
	July: Dawn: End of nominal mission
	December: Rosetta: End of nominal mission
2016
	???: Venera-D launch
	August: Juno: Jupiter arrival
2017
2018
	April: Exomars: Launch period opens