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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?

2008
MEETING	April 13-18: European Geophysical Union meeting, Vienna, Austria meeting website
	May 12: Cassini: Titan flyby (67TI or T43)
	May 25: Phoenix: Landing
	May 29: Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST): Launch
MEETING	March 27-30: American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly, Fort Lauderdale, FL
	May 28: Cassini: Titan flyby (69TI or T44)
MEETING	June 1-5: Meeting #212 of the American Astronomical Society, St. Louis, MO
	June 8: New Horizons: Passes mean orbital distance of Saturn
MEETING	June 9-13: International Conference on Comparative Planetology: Venus-Earth-Mars, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
	June 25: Mars solstice
	July 1: Cassini: End of primary mission
MEETING	Jne 1-5: 212th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, St. Louis, MO
	July (first week): Chandrayaan-1: launch
MEETING	July 7-11: Titan after Cassini-Huygens, Corpus Christi, Texas meeting website
MEETING	July 28-August 1: Saturn after Cassini-Huygens, Imperial College, London meeting website
	July 31: Cassini: Titan flyby (78TI or T45)
	August 1: Total solar eclipse: visible in Canada and Greenland
	August 4: Cassini: distant Mimas flyby
	August 11: Cassini: targeted Enceladus flyby (80EN or E4)
	August 11: Cassini: distant Mimas flyby
MEETING	August 14-16: Scientific Conference and Educator Workshop: "The Great Planet Debate - Science as Process," Laurel, Maryland meeting website
	September: Venus Express: End of nominal mission
	September 5: Rosetta: Asteroid Steins flyby
	September 17: Cassini: distant Mimas flyby
	September 25: Cassini: distant Tethys flyby
	October 1: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: End of primary science phase; transition to relay phase
	October 2: Cassini: distant Tethys flyby
	October 6: MESSENGER: Mercury flyby #2
	October 9: Cassini: targeted Enceladus flyby (88EN or E5)
	October 24: Cassini: distant Mimas flyby
	October 31: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and LCROSS: launch
	October 31: Cassini: targeted Enceladus flyby (91EN or E6)
	November 3: Cassini: Titan flyby (91TI or T46)
	November 18-December 24: Mars solar conjunction
	November 19: Cassini: Titan flyby (93TI or T47)
	November 24: Cassini: distant Tethys flyby
	December 2: Cassini: distant Enceladus flyby
	December 5: Cassini: Titan flyby (95TI or T48)
MEETING	December 15-19: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California meeting website
	December 21: Cassini: Titan flyby (97TI or T49)
	December 26: Mars equinox (beginning of northern fall)
2009
	January: LCROSS: Lunar impact
MEETING	January 7-10: 213th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, California
	January 14: Stardust: Earth flyby
	January 22: Venus Express: End of extended mission
	February 2: Cassini: distant Rhea flyby
	February 7: Cassini: Titan flyby (102TI or T50)
	February 13: Dawn: Mars flyby
	February 16: Kepler: launch
	March 27: Cassini: Titan flyby (106TI or T51)
	April 4: Cassini: Titan flyby (108TI or T52)
	April 20: Cassini: Titan flyby (109TI or T53)
	May 5: Cassini: Titan flyby (110TI or T54)
	May 21: Cassini: Titan flyby (111TI or T55)
	June 6: Cassini: Titan flyby (112TI or T56)
	June 22: Cassini: Titan flyby (113TI or T57)
MEETING	June 7-11: 214th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Pasadena, California
	July 8: Cassini: Titan flyby (114TI or T58)
	July 11: Cassini: distant Dione flyby
	July 24: Cassini: Titan flyby (115TI or T59)
	July 26: Cassini: distant Tethys flyby
	August 9: Cassini: Titan flyby (116TI or T60)
	August 11: Saturn equinox (beginning of northern spring)
	August 25: Cassini: Titan flyby (117TI or T61)
	September 5: Earth crosses Saturn's ring plane (rings vanish as seen from Earth)
	September 15: Mars Science Laboratory: launch period opens
	September 15-20: Saturn solar conjunction
	September 20: Cassini: distant Dione flyby
	September 30: MESSENGER: Mercury flyby #3
	October: Phobos Grunt and Yinghuo-1: launch
	October 12: Cassini: Titan flyby (119TI or T62)
	October 13-14: Cassini: distant Rhea, Mimas, and Tethys flybys
	November 2: Cassini: targeted Enceladus flyby (120EN or E7) November 21: Cassini: targeted Enceladus flyby (121EN or E8)
	November 13: Rosetta: Earth flyby #3
	November 21: Cassini: distant Rhea flyby
	December 12: Cassini: Titan flyby (122TI or T63)
	December 26: Cassini: distant Tethys flyby
	December 28: Cassini: Titan flyby (123TI or T64)
2010
	July 10: Rosetta: Asteroid Lutetia flyby
	June: Hayabusa: Possible return to Earth?
	October 11: Deep Impact: Comet 103P/Hartley 2 flyby
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
	August 11: Juno: Launch period opens
	October: Dawn: Vesta arrival
2012
	March 18: MESSENGER: End of nominal mission
	May: Dawn: Vesta departure
2013
	December 7: Exomars: Launch period opens
2014
	May: Rosetta: Arrival at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
	August 29: New Horizons: Passes mean orbital distance of Neptune
	June-September: Exomars: Mars landing
2015
	April-August: 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
	August: Juno: Jupiter arrival