År 2000-2010

Trender:

• The worlds first space tourist (2001)
• China launches its first manned space mission (2003)
• Mars exploration rovers (2004)
• Discovery of the first exoplanet that could contain liquid water (2009)
• Water is discovered on the moon (2009)
• First demonstration of solar-sail technology (2010)
• The longest solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs (2010)

Länkar:

• 2001: The worlds first space tourist – futuretimeline.net
• 2002: The dwarf planet Quaoar is discovered – futuretimeline.net
• 2003: China launches its first manned space mission – futuretimeline.net
• 2003: Space Shuttle Columbia disaster – futuretimeline.net
• 2004: Mars Exploration Rovers – futuretimeline.net
• 2004: Hubble Ultra Deep Field – futuretimeline.net
• 2005: Huygens probe reveals images of Titan’s surface – futuretimeline.net
• 2006: Pluto is demoted to ”dwarf planet” status – futuretimeline.net
• 2009: Kepler searches for Earth-like planets – futuretimeline.net
• 2009: Discovery of the first exoplanet that could contain liquid water – futuretimeline.net
• 2009: Water is discovered on the Moon – futuretimeline.net
• 2009: Mercury is 98% mapped – futuretimeline.net
• 2010: The first demonstration of solar-sail technology – futuretimeline.net
• 2010: The Constellation Program is essentially cancelled – futuretimeline.net
• 2010: The longest solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs – futuretimeline.net

År 2011-2020 

Trender:

• World’s first commercial spaceport (2011)
• The Gaia mission is launched (2013)
• Launch of the Sunjammer solar sail (2014)
• The MAVEN probe arrives at Mars (2014)
  Completion of the International Space Station (2014)
• InSight touches down on Mars (2016)
• The first hotel in space (2016)
• The James Webb telescope is launched (2018)
• New Airbus Glider is set to become the highest-flying winged vehicle ever (2019)
• Putin aims to put russia on mars in 2019 (2019)
• The ExoMars rover touches down on Mars (2019)
• Galileo satellite navigation system is fully operational (2019)
• NASA Unveiled its plan to retrieve the first-ever samples from mars (2020)
• Space Hotel in Orbit by 2020 (2020)
• Giant Magellan telescope goes into operation (2020)
• Mars 2020 rover mission (2020)
• The Euclid Space Telescope (2020)

Länkar:

• 2011: World’s first commercial spaceport – futuretimeline.net
• 2011: The Space Shuttle fleet is retired – futuretimeline.net
• 2012: Mars Science Laboratory explores the Red Planet – futuretimeline.net
• 2013: China’s first unmanned Moon landing – futuretimeline.net
• 2013: China’s Tiangong-2 space station module is launched – futuretimeline.net
• 2013: The Gaia mission is launched – futuretimeline.net
• 2013: Solar flares are disrupting the Earth’s magnetosphere – futuretimeline.net
• 2013: Comet ISON makes an appearance – futuretimeline.net
• 2014: Rosetta deploys its lander on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – futuretimeline.net
• 2014: Launch of the Sunjammer solar sail – futuretimeline.net
• 2014: A comet is passing extremely close to Mars – futuretimeline.net
• 2014: The first test flight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft – futuretimeline.net
• 2014: India’s first Mars mission – futuretimeline.net
• 2014: The MAVEN probe arrives at Mars – futuretimeline.net
• 2014: Completion of the International Space Station – futuretimeline.net
• 2015: Dawn arrives at Ceres – futuretimeline.net
• 2015: New Horizons arrives at Pluto – futuretimeline.net
• 2015: Voyager I enters the heliopause – futuretimeline.net
• 2016: InSight touches down on Mars – futuretimeline.net
• 2016: India’s first manned space flight – futuretimeline.net
• 2016: The Juno probe arrives at Jupiter – futuretimeline.net
• 2016: India launches its second unmanned lunar probe – futuretimeline.net
• 2016: The first hotel in space – futuretimeline.net
• 2016: Completion of the i5K project – futuretimeline.net
• 2017: The Cheops satellite is deployed to study exoplanets – futuretimeline.net
• 2017: The first test flight of NASA’s Space Launch System – futuretimeline.net
• 2017: China launches an unmanned sample return mission to the Moon – futuretimeline.net
• 2017: Launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) – futuretimeline.net
• 2018: India Is Preparing to Land on The Moon For The First Time in The Country’s History – sciencealert.com
• 2018: World’s Most Powerful Telescope Set to Launch in 2018 – sciencealert.com
• 2018: A Solar Storm Is About to Strike Earth, So Here’s What You Need to Know – sciencealert.com
• 2018: Our Top 13 Predictions For Science in 2018 – sciencealert.com
• 2018: 7 of The Most Epic Space Events You Should Get Ready For in 2018 – sciencealert.com
• 2018: The James Webb telescope is launched – futuretimeline.net
• 2018: The first manned flights from Russia’s new spaceport – futuretimeline.net
• 2019: This New Airbus Glider Is Set to Become The Highest-Flying Winged Vehicle Ever – sciencealert.com
• 2019: Want to Train to Go to Space? The UK Is Building a $150 Million Training Facility- sciencealert.com
• 2019: For The First Time in a Decade, Mercury Is About to Transit The Sun – sciencealert.com
• 2019: This Startup Wants to Make Meteor Showers For Rich People, Which Is a Very Bad Not Good Idea – sciencealert.com
• 2019: Putin Aims to Put Russia on Mars in 2019 in What Could Start a New Space Race – sciencealert.com
• 2019: The ExoMars rover touches down on Mars – futuretimeline.net
• 2019: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to be Launched Spring 2019 – nasa.gov 
• 2019: Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system is fully operational – futuretimeline.net
• 2019: The first mission to a gas giant using solar sail propulsion – futuretimeline.net
• 2019: The ExoMars rover touches down on Mars – futuretimeline.net
• 2019: The first manned outpost beyond the Moon begins assembly – futuretimeline.net
• 2020: NASA Just Unveiled Its Plan to Retrieve The First-Ever Samples From Mars – sciencealert.com
• 2020: France Just Announced Plans to Help India Land on Mars For The First Time – sciencealert.com
• 2020: Two Aerospace Companies Just Teamed Up to Put an Inflatable Space Hotel in Orbit by 2020 – sciencealert.com
• 2020: This New Technique Will Help NASA Search For Martian Life in 2020 – sciencealert.com
• 2020: Moon Express Is on Track to Start Harvesting The Moon by 2020 – sciencealert.com
• 2020: Soar above Mars’ ravines and canyons in this fascinating Esa video – wired.co.uk
• 2020: Nasa hopes to put the ISS in private hands in the mid 2020s – wired.co.uk
• 2020: Ligo and its hunt for gravitational waves in monster black holes – wired.co.uk
• 2020: Launch of ExoMars rover delayed until 2020 – wired.co.uk
• 2020: Nasa has finished designing its sensor-packed Mars 2020 rover – wired.co.uk
• 2020: China unveils the rover it’s sending to Mars in 2020 – wired.co.uk
• 2020: Giant Magellan Telescope goes into operation – gmto.org
• 2020: Venera-D space probe to reaches Venus – russianspaceweb.com
• 2020: Mars 2020 rover mission – futuretimeline.net
• 2020: BepiColombo arrives in orbit around Mercury – futuretimeline.net
• 2020: The Euclid Space Telescope reveals new insights into dark matter and dark energy – futuretimeline.net
• 2020: The European Extremely Large Telescope is operational – content.time.com
• 2020: China Wants To Land Probe On Dark Side Of The Moon By 2020 – techtimes.com

År 2021-2030

Trender:

• The ”First Luxury Hotel in Space” (2021)
• Two Space Hotels Could Open as Early as 2021 (2021)
• Fully reusable, single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft (2021)
• Elon Musk plan for colonising Mars (2021)
• Synoptic survey telescope begins full operations (2022)
• Mars sample return mission (2023)
• First manned mission to Mars (2024)
  NASA predicts alien life could be found by 2025 (2025)
• DARPA’s Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation goes into operation (2027)
• European Space agency announces plans to build a ”moon village” by 2030 (2030)
• Orbital space junk is becoming a major problem for space flight (2030)

Länkar:

• 2021: The ”First Luxury Hotel in Space” Has Started Taking Booking Reservations – sciencealert.com
• 2021: The United Nations Just Announced Its First Ever Space Mission – sciencealert.com
• 2021: Astronomers Have a New Explanation For The ’Alien Megastructure’ Star – sciencealert.com
• 2021: Private Mars flyby in 2021 needs NASA’s help, say experts – cbsnews.com
• 2021: Two Space Hotels Could Open as Early as 2021 – futurism.com
• 2021: The maiden flight of Ariane 6 – futuretimeline.net
• 2021: Fully reusable, single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft – futuretimeline.net
• 2021: Manned exploration of near-Earth asteroids – futuretimeline.net
• 2021: Here’s Elon Musk’s Spectacular Plan For Colonising Mars – sciencealert.com
• 2022: NASA Scientists Say We Could Colonise The Moon by 2022… For Just $10 Billion – sciencealert.com
• 2022: Elon Musk revises SpaceX Mars plans, hopes for flights in 2022 – cbsnews.com
• 2022: Earth Dodges Asteroid Threat – cbsnews.com
• 2022: Last Chance to See Jupiter This Close Until 2022 – cbsnews.com
• 2022: China’s first space station is complete – futuretimeline.net
• 2022: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope begins full operations – lsst.org
• 2022: ESA and NASA will try to divert an asteroid out of its orbit. – spectrum.ieee.org
• 2023: Mars sample return mission – exploration.esa.int
• 2023: Asteroid sample return mission – futuretimeline.net
• 2024: NASA Is Planning an Asteroid Deflection Test Mission in Case The Unthinkable Happens – sciencealert.com
• 2024: First manned mission to Mars – cnbc.com
• 2024: Completion of the Square Kilometre Array – futuretimeline.net
• 2024: The first probe to fly into the Sun’s outer atmosphere – futuretimeline.net
• 2025: Thursday briefing: SpaceX has test-fired its new Falcon Heavy rocket – wired.co.uk
• 2025: Thor, Ariel and Xipe battle it out for ESA’s 2025 mission – wired.co.uk
• 2025: Elon Musk reveals plans for a ’cargo route’ to Mars – wired.co.uk
• 2025: The Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) conducts its life-searching mission – futuretimeline.net
• 2025: NASA predicts alien life could be found by 2025 – cbsnews.com
• 2025: Manned missions to the Moon – futuretimeline.net
• 2025: Contact with the Voyager probes is lost – futuretimeline.net
• 2026: Mars Science Laboratory is shutting down – futuretimeline.net
• 2027: The Europa Clipper arrives in orbit – futuretimeline.net
• 2027: DARPA’s Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) goes into operation – wired.com
• 2028: The International Space Station is decommissioned – futuretimeline.net
• 2030: European Space Agency Announces Plans to Build a ’Moon Village’ by 2030 – sciencealert.com
• 2030: Europe will send humans back to the moon by 2030, ESA says – wired.co.uk
• 2030: Orbital space junk is becoming a major problem for space flight – futuretimeline.net
• 2030: Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) reaches the Jovian system – futuretimeline.net
• 2030: Full weather modeling is perfected – futuretimeline.net

År 2031-2040

Trender:

• Manned mission to Mars (2033)
• Mining operations in the main asteroid belt (2033)
• Detailed probing and mapping of the Kuiper Belt (2036)

Länkar:

• 2032: China’s space station is deorbited – futuretimeline.net
• 2032: Here’s where to watch the supermoon eclipse online – wired.com
• 2033: Supermoon eclipse will be the last until 2033 – wired.co.uk
• 2033: Manned mission to Mars – futuretimeline.net
• 2033: Mining operations in the main asteroid belt – futuretimeline.net
• 2036: Detailed probing and mapping of the Kuiper Belt is underway – futuretimeline.net

År 2041-2050

Trender:

Orbital solar power (2041)

Länkar:

• 2041: Orbital solar power is commercially feasible – futuretimeline.net
• 2047: Unmanned probe to 2060 Chiron – futuretimeline.net
• 2048: The near-Earth asteroid 2007 VK184 makes a close pass – futuretimeline.net