Here's my map of all active and planned Solar System Missions and their destinations as of November 1st 2023.
One more mission has launched in October: The Psyche mission to the metal asteroid of the same name, to arrive in 2029. The Lucy asteroid mission has its first encounter this month with the main belt asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh with a closest approach of 425 km. Meanwhile, Juno has its 56th perijove at Jupiter.
Two missions are coasting to their destinations: The Japanese SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) lunar lander mission, toward orbit insertion in december; and the Indian Aditya-L1 solar observatory, arriving at the L1 Earth-Sun Langrange point in January next year.
The race for the first commercial lunar payload services mission (CLPS) is on between Intuitive Machines IM-1, currently scheduled to launch January 12 2024 on a Falcon 9, and the Astrobotic Peregrine mission with a planned launch December 24 this year on the first Vulcan launch.
Data, images and documentation are available on my space exploration history GitHub repository and the associated website.
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Very nice to include important flybys / insertions of Beppo, Lucy, JUICE and Psyche.
However i see few instances that the dates might not be updated:
E.g. Clipper has an Oct 2024 nominal launch date
PPE+Halo has December one
Dragonfly has been postponed to 2027. SRL - at least to 2030
New Zealands mission name is Venus Life Finder 1, and it will happen in 2025, in the best case scenario
Several missions have finance and other challenges and will definitely not happen in the marked dates, those include Shukrayan, MOM-2, Beresheet-2, Destiny, Espacade and Starship Demo Moon Landing.
The two marked Chinese DART-like missions might be one, in reality.
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