2008 in spaceflight

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[edit] Launches

This is a list of spaceflights launched, or scheduled to be launched in 2008, including the next scheduled launch.

Launch Date/Time Rocket Launch
Site
Launch Contractor Payload Operator Orbit Mission/
Function
Re-Entry/
Destruction
Outcome Remarks
5 January, 06:00-11:00 GMT Image:Flag of Canada.svgBlack Brant XII Image:Flag of Norway.svgAndøya Image:Flag of the United States.svgNASA Image:Flag of the United States.svgSCIFER-2 NASA/Cornell/Dartmouth Planned: Sub-orbital Ionospheric research
12 January Image:Flag of India.svgPSLV-CA Image:Flag of India.svgFLP, Sriharikota Image:Flag of India.svgISRO Image:Flag of Israel.svgPolaris (TechSAR) IAI Planned: LEO Radar imaging
15 January, 11:49 GMT Image:Flag of Ukraine.svgZenit-3SL Image:Flag of Norway.svgOcean Odyssey Image:Flag of the United Nations.svgSea Launch Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svgThuraya 3 Thuraya Planned: GEO Comsat
28 January, 00:18 GMT Image:Flag of Russia.svgProton-M Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgBaikonur RFSA Ekspress AM-33 Satellite Communications Organisation Comsat
30 January, 06:33:59 GMT (TBC) Image:Flag of Ukraine.svgDnepr Image:Flag of Russia.svgDombarovsky Image:Flag of Russia.svgISC Kosmatras Image:Flag of Thailand.svgTHEOS Thai Ministry of Science and Technology's Space Agency Planned: SSO Earth Imaging
January (TBC) Image:Flag of Russia.svgKosmos-3M Image:Flag of Russia.svgLC-107, Kapustin Yar Image:Flag of Russia.svgCOSMOS Image:Flag of the United States.svgOrbcomm (S/N TBC) Orbcomm Planned: LEO Comsat
Image:Flag of the United States.svgOrbcomm (S/N TBC) Orbcomm Planned: LEO Comsat
Image:Flag of the United States.svgOrbcomm (S/N TBC) Orbcomm Planned: LEO Comsat
Image:Flag of the United States.svgOrbcomm (S/N TBC) Orbcomm Planned: LEO Comsat
Image:Flag of the United States.svgOrbcomm (S/N TBC) Orbcomm Planned: LEO Comsat
Image:Flag of the United States.svgOrbcomm (S/N TBC) Orbcomm Planned: LEO Comsat
Image:Flag of Russia.svgUGATUSAT Planned: LEO
7 February Soyuz-U LC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome Image:Flag of Russia.svgRFSA Image:Flag of Russia.svgProgress M-63 Image:Flag of Russia.svgRFSA Planned: LEO, Docked to ISS Resupply ISS
NET: 8 February Image:Flag of the United States.svgSpace Shuttle Atlantis Image:Flag of the United States.svgLC-39A, Kennedy Space Center Image:Flag of the United States.svgUSA Image:Flag of the United States.svgSTS-122, 7 astronauts NASA Planned: LEO, Docked to ISS Manned orbital flight ISS assembly flight
Image:Flag of the United Nations.svgColumbus ESA Planned: LEO, attached to ISS ISS component
10 February Image:Flag of Russia.svgProton-M Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgBaikonur ILS Thor-5 Telenor Planned: Geosynchronous Comsat
14 February, 04:00 GMT Image:Flag of India.svgPSLV-C Sriharikota ISRO CartoSat-2A Planned: LEO
OceanSat-2 Planned: LEO
Can X-2 Planned: LEO
AAU Cubsat-2 Planned: LEO
Cute 1.7+APD-2 Planned: LEO
Compass 1 Planned: LEO
Delfi C3[1] Delft University Planned: LEO Technology development
Seeds-2 Planned: LEO
15 February Image:Flag of Japan.svgH-IIA Image:Flag of Japan.svgPad Y, Tanegashima Image:Flag of Japan.svgJAXA Image:Flag of Japan.svgWINDS (Kizuna) JAXA/NICT Planned: GEO Comsat/Technology development
22 February Ariane 5-ES ELA-3, CSG (Kourou) Arianespace ATV-1 "Jules Verne" ESA Planned: LEO, docked to ISS Test spacecraft, resupply ISS Maiden flight of Ariane 5-ES and ATV
26 February, 10:15-14:15 GMT Lockheed Martin Atlas V (411) SLC-3E, Vandenberg AFB United Launch Alliance NRO L-28 NRO Classified
28 February Image:Flag of Russia.svgRokot Image:Flag of Russia.svgPlesetsk Image:Flag of Russia.svgVKS Image:Flag of Russia.svgGONETS-M Planned: LEO Comsat
Image:Flag of Russia.svgGONETS-M Planned: LEO Comsat
Image:Flag of Russia.svgGONETS-M Planned: LEO Comsat
Image:Flag of Russia.svgYubeleiny Planned: LEO Experimental spacecraft
NET: February (TBC) Space Shuttle Endeavour LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center USA STS-123, 7 Astronauts NASA Planned: LEO, Docked to ISS Manned orbital flight ISS assembly flight
JEM Logistics NASA Planned: LEO, attached to ISS ISS component First of three components for the JEM
February (TBC) Long March 2C LC-2, Xichang CNSA HJ-1A Planned: SSO Remote Sensing
HJ-1B Planned: SSO Remote Sensing
NET: February (TBC) Chimera (Minuteman/Minotaur II) LF-06, Vandenberg AFB Orbital Sciences NFIRE 2b target MDA Planned:Sub-orbital NFIRE test
12 March Zenit-3SLB Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgLC-45/1, Baikonur Land Launch AMOS-3 Space Communications Ltd Planned: Geosynchronous Comsat First Land Launch contracted launch, maiden flight of Zenit-3SLB
13 March Delta II (7925-9.5) LC-17, Cape Canaveral US Air Force GPS 2R-19 US Air Force Planned: MEO Navigation
21 March Lockheed Martin Atlas V (421) LC-41, Cape Canaveral ULA ICO G1 ICO Satellite Management Planned: Geosynchronous Mobile communications
27 March Image:Flag of Russia.svgKosmos-3M Image:Flag of Russia.svgPlesetsk SAR-Lupe 4 Kommando Strategische Aufklärung, Bundeswehr Planned: Polar LEO Military reconnaissance
31 March Image:Flag of Europe.svgAriane 5-ECA Image:Flag of France.svgELA-3, CSG (Kourou) Image:Flag of France.svgArianespace Image:Flag of Vietnam.svgVinasat 1 VNPT Planned: GSO Comsat First Vietnamese spacecraft
March (TBC) Image:Flag of Russia.svgProton-M Baikonur ILS Inmarsat 4-F3 Inmarsat Planned: GEO Comsat
March (TBC) Terrier 70 Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
(Wallops Island)
NASA SubTEC-II NASA Planned: Sub-orbital Technology development
March (TBC) SpaceX Falcon 1 Omelek SpaceX RazakSat-1 Malaysian Space Agency Planned:LEO
TBD Various (CalPoly) Planned: LEO Assorted CubeSats
March (TBC) KT-2 CNSA PS-2
1st Quarter (TBC) Dnepr Image:Flag of Russia.svgDombarovsky ISC Kosmotras RapidEye RapidEye AG Planned: LEO Remote sensing
RapidEye RapidEye AG Planned: LEO Remote sensing
RapidEye RapidEye AG Planned: LEO Remote sensing
RapidEye RapidEye AG Planned: LEO Remote sensing
RapidEye RapidEye AG Planned: LEO Remote sensing
1st Quarter (TBC) Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz 2.1b/Fregat Image:Flag of Russia.svgPlesetsk Persona
1st Quarter (TBC) Long March 4B LC-1, Taiyuan CNSA FY-3A Weather satellite
SMMS Technology demonstration
8 April, ~11:00 GMT Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz-FG Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgLC-1, Baikonur Image:Flag of Russia.svgRKA Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz TMA-12, 3 cosmonauts RKA Planned: LEO, Docked to ISS Manned orbital flight ISS Expedition 17
First South Korean in space
9 April Image:Flag of India.svgPSLV-XL ISRO Chandrayaan-1 ISRO Selenocentric Lunar orbiter First Indian lunar spacecraft
Maiden flight of PSLV-XL
14 April Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz-FG/Fregat Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgLC-31, Baikonur Starsem GIOVE-B ESA Planned: MEO Experimental navigation satellite
15 April Pegasus-XL L-1011, Kwajelein Atoll Orbital C/NOFS Planned: LEO Scientific electrodynamics satellite
16 April (TBC) Boeing Delta II (7920) SLC-2W Vandenberg AFB ULA GeoEye 1 (Orbview 5) ORBIMAGE Planned: LEO Earth imaging
24 April, 12:26 GMT Space Shuttle Discovery LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center USA STS-124 NASA Planned: LEO, docked to ISS Manned Orbital Flight ISS assembly flight
JEM Pressurised Module JAXA Planned: LEO, attached to ISS ISS component
25 April, 20:00-00:00 GMT Polaris Kodiak Island US Air Force FTG-04 MDA Planned:Sub-orbital
April (TBC) Long March 3B CNSA Apstar-6B Planned: GEO Comsat
April/May (TBC) GSLV Sriharikota ISRO Healthsat Planned: Geosynchronous
TAUVEX Planned: Geosynchronous
14 May Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz-U Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgLC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome Image:Flag of Russia.svgRKA Image:Flag of Russia.svgProgress M-64 RKA Planned: LEO, Docked to ISS Resupply ISS
15 May Boeing Delta IV-H LC-37B, Cape Canaveral ULA NRO L-26 US National Reconnaissance Office Classified
15 May Image:Flag of Russia.svgRockot/Briz-KM Image:Flag of Russia.svgPlesetsk Eurockot GOCE ESA Planned: LEO Gravity research
16 May Boeing Delta II (7920H) LC-17, Cape Canaveral ULA GLAST NASA Planned: LEO Gamma-ray observatory
Study black holes and subatomic particles
May (TBC) PSLV Sriharikota ISRO Anusat Planned: LEO
X-Sat Planned: LEO
May (TBC) Image:Flag of Russia.svgKosmos-3M Image:Flag of Russia.svgLC-132, Plesetsk Bissat
15 June Delta II 7320 SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB United Launch Alliance Jason-2 NASA Planned: LEO Ocean altimetry
23 June (TBC) ATK ALV X-1 MARS
(Wallops Island)
NASA/ATK Hy-BoLT, SOAREX VI NASA Planned: Sub-orbital Hypersonic boundary layer transition experiment, experimental reentry probes
25 June OSC Minotaur LP-0B, MARS (Wallops Island) OSC TacSat 3 USAF Research Laboratory Planned: LEO Experimental satellite
June (TBC) Atlas V 421 LC-41, Cape Canaveral ULA WGS-2 US Air Force Planned: GEO Comsat
June (TBC) Image:Flag of Russia.svgProton-M Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgBaikonur Ekspress-AM44 Satellite Communicatons Organisation Planned: Geosynchronous orbit Comsat
Ekspress-MD1 Satellite Communicatons Organisation Planned: Geosynchronous orbit Comsat
June (TBC) Image:Flag of Russia.svgTsyklon 3 Image:Flag of Russia.svgPlesetsk Image:Flag of Russia.svgVKS Image:Flag of Russia.svgKoronas-Foton Scientific Satellite Final flight of Tsyklon 3 carrier rocket
2nd Quarter (TBC) SpaceX Falcon 1 Omelek SpaceX DemoSat (TBC) MDA/SpaceX Planned: LEO Test rocket
Explorers Celestis Planned: LEO Space burial Includes remains of Astronaut Gordon Cooper, actor James Doohan, writer John Meredyth Lucas, and Apollo mission planner Mareta West.
15 July Pegasus-XL L-1011, Kwajelein Atoll Orbital IBEX NASA Planned: LEO
16 July Boeing Delta II (7920) LC-17B, Cape Canaveral ULA/NASA STSS Demo 1 MDA Technology research and development
STSS Demo 2 MDA Technology research and development
20 July Delta IV M+ (4,2) LC-37B, Cape Canaveral ULA/NASA GOES-O NOAA Planned: Geostationary Weather satellite
31 July Ariane 5 ECA ELA-3, CSG (Kourou) Arianespace Herschel ESA Planned: Earth/Sun L2 Scientific infrared research
Planck ESA Planned: Earth/Sun L2 Scientific microwave research
July (TBC) Lockheed Martin Atlas V (401) SLC-3W, Vandenberg AFB United Launch Alliance DMSP-5D3 F18 US Air Force Weather satellite
July (TBC) Zenit 3SLB Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgLC-45/1, Baikonur Land Launch Measat 1-R Planned: GEO Comsat
July (TBC) Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz-2.1b/Fregat Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgBaikonur Image:Flag of Russia.svgMeteor M-1 Image:Flag of Russia.svgRKA Planned: SSO Weather satellite
Universitetskiy-Tatyana-2 Planned: SSO
Sterkh-2 Planned: SSO
7 August, 12:24 GMT Space Shuttle Atlantis LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center USA STS-125, 7 Astronauts NASA Planned: LEO Manned Orbital Flight Final Hubble servicing flight
12 August Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz-U Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgLC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome Image:Flag of Russia.svgRKA Image:Flag of Russia.svgProgress M-65 RKA Planned: LEO, Docked to ISS Resupply ISS
August (TBC) Image:Flag of Russia.svgKosmos-3M Image:Flag of Russia.svgPlesetsk SAR-Lupe 5 Kommando Strategische Aufklärung, Bundeswehr Planned: Polar LEO Military reconnaissance
August (TBC) Boeing Delta IV-M SLC-6, Vandenberg AFB ULA NRO L-25 US National Reconnaissance Office Classified
August (TBC) H-IIA Area Y, Tanegashima JAXA GOSAT JAXA Planned: LEO Earth Climate Observation
SDS-1 JAXA Planned: LEO Technology Demonstration
Sohla-1 JAXA Planned: LEO Technology Demonstration
Sprite SAT Tohoku University Planned: LEO Technology Demonstration
Kagayaki Solon Company Planned: LEO Technology Demonstration
PRISM Tokyo University Planned: LEO Technology Demonstration
STARS Kagawa University Planned: LEO Technology Demonstration
KKS-1 Oshima School Planned: LEO Technology Demonstration
10 September Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz-U Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgLC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome Image:Flag of Russia.svgRKA Image:Flag of Russia.svgProgress M-66 RKA Planned: LEO, Docked to ISS Resupply ISS
19 September, 00:08 GMT Space Shuttle Discovery LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center USA STS-126 NASA Planned: LEO, docked to ISS Manned Orbital Flight ISS resupply flight
Leonardo MPLM NASA/ESA Planned: LEO, docked to ISS Resupply ISS Final flight of Leonardo MPLM
September (TBC) Delta IV-M+ (5,4) (9450) LC-37B, Cape Canaveral ULA WGS-3 US Air Force Planned: GEO Comsat
September (TBC) Long March 2F (CZ-2F) Jiuquan CASC Shenzhou 7 CASC Planned: LEO Manned Orbital Flight First planned Chinese EVA
3rd Quarter Ariane 5 CSG (Kourou) Arianespace AMC-21 SES Americom Comsat
13 October Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz-FG Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgLC-1/5, Baikonur Image:Flag of Russia.svgRKA Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz TMA-13 RKA Planned: LEO, docked to ISS Manned orbital flight ISS Expedition 18
28 October Atlas V (401) LC-41, Cape Canaveral ULA LRO NASA Planned: Selenocentric Lunar orbiter
LCROSS NASA Planned: TLI Lunar impacter
October (TBC) Image:Flag of Russia.svgRockot Image:Flag of Russia.svgPlesetsk Eurockot SMOS ESA Planned: SSO Soil research
Proba 2 ESA Planned: SSO Technology demonstration
October (TBC) PSLV Sriharikota ISRO RISAT Planned: LEO
6 November Space Shuttle Endeavour LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center USA STS-119 NASA Planned: LEO, docked to ISS Manned Orbital Flight ISS assembly flight
ITS P6 Truss NASA Planned: LEO, attached to ISS ISS component
26 November Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz-U Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgLC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome Image:Flag of Russia.svgRFSA Image:Flag of Russia.svgProgress M-67 Image:Flag of Russia.svgRFSA Planned: LEO, Docked to ISS Resupply ISS
November (TBC) Minuteman III Vandenberg AFB US Air Force GT-194GM US Air Force Planned: Sub-orbital ICBM test
November (TBC) Zenit-3M/Fregat-SB Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgLC-45/1, Baikonur GOMS-Elektra 2 Planned: GSO Weather satellite
1 December Atlas V 401 LC-41, Cape Canaveral ULA SDO NASA Planned: GEO Solar research
15 December Taurus Vandenberg AFB Orbital Sciences OCO NASA Planned: LEO Earth Sciences
December (TBC) Image:Flag of Europe.svgVega Image:Flag of France.svgELV, CSG (Kourou) Image:Flag of Europe.svgArianespace ESA Planned: LEO Laser research Maiden flight of Vega rocket
Image:Flag of Poland.svgPW-Sat Planned: LEO Solar sail
TBD TBD Planned: LEO Cubesats
4th Quarter Image:Flag of Russia.svgProton Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgBaikonur ILS Ciel-2 Ciel Planned: GEO Comsat First Ciel satellite launch[2]
4th Quarter (TBC) Falcon 9 LC-40, Cape Canaveral SpaceX DemoSat SpaceX/MDA/NASA/US Air Force Test rocket Planned: LEO Maiden flight of Falcon 9
TBD Image:Flag of Russia.svgSoyuz-U Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgBaikonur Cosmodrome Liana Russian Federal Space Agency Radio astronomy
TBD Long March 3B LC-2, Xichang CNSA Chinasat 9 CNSA Planned:GEO Comsat
TBD Long March 2D Jiuquan CNSA Shi Jian 9 CASC Planned: LEO Scientific research
TBD Image:Flag of Russia.svgProton-M Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgBaikonur ILS AMC-14 SES Americom Planned: Geosynchronous Comsat
TBD Image:Flag of Russia.svgKosmos-3M Image:Flag of Russia.svgLC-132,Plesetsk Parus MO RF Planned: LEO Reconnaissance
Sterkh Planned: LEO
Orbcomm-CDS Orbcomm Planned: LEO Boilerplate spacecraft?
TBD Start-1 EROS-C IAI Planned: LEO Imaging satellite
TBD Zenit-3SL Ocean Odyssey Sea Launch Echostar 11 Echostar Planned: GEO Comsat
TBD Zenit-3M/Fregat Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svgBaikonur Image:Flag of Russia.svgRKA RadioAstron RKA
TBD Strela Kondor-E Planned: LEO
TBD Boeing Delta II (7420-10) SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB United Launch Alliance COSMO-3 Italian government, ASI, CONAE[3] SSO Earth imaging/reconnaissance
TBD Zenit 3SL Ocean Odyssey Sea Launch DirecTV-11 DirecTV Planned: GEO Comsat
TBD Boeing Delta II (7920) SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB ULA/NASA STSS ARR US Air Force/NASA Technology research and development
TBD Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svgLong March 3A Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svgLC-2, Xichang Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svgCNSA Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svgBeidou CNSA Planned:MEO Navigation
TBD Ariane 5 ELA-3, CSG (Kourou) Arianespace Superbird 7 Planned: GEO Comsat
Turksat 3A Planned: GEO Comsat
TBD Zenit-3SL Ocean Odyssey Sea Launch Galaxy 18 Planned: GEO Comsat


[edit] Deep Space Rendezvous in 2008

[edit] References

Generic references:
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  1. ^ Delfi-C3 - Home
  2. ^ ILS Proton to launch Ciel-2 satellite to serve North America. Ciel.
  3. ^ Italian Space Agency - About COSMO-Skymed


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