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The Planetary Society WeblogBy Emily Lakdawalla
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2008 |
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August 10: GLAST: renaming |
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| MEETING | August 14-16: Scientific Conference and Educator Workshop: "The Great Planet Debate - Science as Process," Laurel, Maryland meeting website |
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September: Venus Express: End of nominal mission |
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September 5: Rosetta: Asteroid Steins flyby |
| MEETING | September 15-17: Third landing site workshop for the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Doubletree Hotel, Monrovia, CA; landing site websites here and here |
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October 1: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: End of primary science phase; transition to relay phase |
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October 6: MESSENGER: Mercury flyby #2 |
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October (2nd week): Chandrayaan-1: launch (source: Times of India) |
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October 8: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-125 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope |
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| MEETING | October 10-15: 40th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society - meeting website |
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November 10: Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-126 mission to supply the space station and service the Solar Alpha Rotary joints on both ends of truss |
November 18-December 24: Mars solar conjunction |
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| MEETING | December 15-19: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California meeting website |
December 26: Mars equinox (beginning of northern fall) |
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2009 |
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| EVENT | All Year: International Year of Astronomy |
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January: LCROSS: Lunar impact |
| MEETING | January 7-10: 213th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, California |
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January 14: Stardust: Earth flyby |
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January 22: Venus Express: End of extended mission |
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February 12: Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-119 mission to deliver final pair of solar arrays to space station |
| February 13: Dawn: Mars flyby | |
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February 16: Kepler: launch |
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Late February/early March: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and LCROSS: launch |
| MEETING | March 10-14: 40th Meeting of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX (new venue! Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, near IAH.) meeting website |
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May 15: Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-127 mission to deliver final parts of Japanese Kibo module, the Exposed Facility and Experiment Logistics Module Exposed Section |
| MEETING | June 7-11: 214th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Pasadena, California |
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May 15: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-128 mission to carry science and storage racks to the space station |
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August 11: Saturn equinox (beginning of northern spring) |
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September 5: Earth crosses Saturn's ring plane (rings vanish as seen from Earth) |
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September 15: Mars Science Laboratory: launch period opens |
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September 15-20: Saturn solar conjunction |
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September 30: MESSENGER: Mercury flyby #3 |
| October: Phobos Grunt and Yinghuo-1: launch | |
October 13-14: Cassini: distant Rhea, Mimas, and Tethys flybys |
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October 15: Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-129 mission to deliver lots of spare parts to the station, to be stored outside |
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November 2: Cassini: targeted Enceladus flyby (120EN or E7) November 21: Cassini: targeted Enceladus flyby (121EN or E8) |
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November 13: Rosetta: Earth flyby #3 |
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December 10: 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." |
2010 |
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February 11: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-131 mission to deliver science racks to the space station. Unless plans change, this will be Atlantis' last flight. |
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April 8: Space Shuttle Discovery 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 Discovery's last flight. |
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May 31: Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-133 mission to deliver spare parts. Unless plans change, this will be Endeavour's last flight. |
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July 10: Rosetta: Asteroid Lutetia flyby |
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June: Hayabusa: Possible return to Earth? |
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October 11: Deep Impact: Comet 103P/Hartley 2 flyby |
2011 |
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February 14: Stardust: Flyby of comet Tempel 1 |
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March 18: MESSENGER: Mercury orbit insertion |
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March 22: New Horizons: Passes mean orbital distance of Uranus |
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August 11: Juno: Launch period opens |
| October: Dawn: Vesta arrival | |
2012 |
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March 18: MESSENGER: End of nominal mission |
| May: Dawn: Vesta departure | |
2013 |
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December 7: Exomars: Launch period opens |
2014 |
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May: Rosetta: Arrival at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko |
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August 29: New Horizons: Passes mean orbital distance of Neptune |
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June-September: Exomars: Mars landing |
2015 |
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April-August: New Horizons: Pluto/Charon flyby |
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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 | |
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December: Rosetta: End of nominal mission |
2016 |
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August: Juno: Jupiter arrival |
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