Legend: + Targeted For | * No Earlier Than (Tentative) | ** To Be Determined
2010 Launches
Date: March 1
Mission: GOES-P
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta IV
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Complex
37
Launch Time: 6:19 - 7:19 p.m. EST
Description: GOES-P is the latest in a series of meteorological
satellites designed to watch for strom development and weather conditions on
Earth.
Date: April 5 +
Mission: STS-131
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Discovery
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 6:27 a.m. EDT
Description: Space shuttle Discovery will carry a Multi-Purpose
Logistics Module filled with science racks that will be transferred to laboratories
of the International Space Station.
Date: May 14 +
Mission: STS-132
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Atlantis
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 2:28 p.m. EDT
Description: Space shuttle Atlantis mission will carry an integrated
cargo carrier to deliver maintenance and assembly hardware, including spare
parts for space station systems. In addition, the second in a series of new
pressurized components for Russia, a Mini Research Module, will be permanently
attached to the bottom port of the Zarya module.
Date: July 29 +
Mission: STS-134
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 7:51 a.m. EDT
STS-134 Description: Space shuttle Discovery will deliver an EXPRESS Logistics
Carrier-3 (ELC-3) and an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the International
Space Station.
Date: Sept. 16 +
Mission: STS-133
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Discovery
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 11:57 a.m. EDT
STS-133 Description: Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the Express Logistics
Carrier 4 (ELC4), a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MLPM) and critical spare
components to the International Space Station.
Date: Nov. 22 *
Mission: Glory
Launch Vehicle: Orbital Sciences Taurus Rocket
Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base - Launch Pad SLC 576-E
Description: The Glory Mission will help increase our understanding
of the Earth's energy balance by collecting data on the properties of aerosols
and black carbon in the Earth's atmosphere and how the Sun's irradiance affects
the Earth's climate.
Date: **
Mission: Aquarius
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta II 7320
Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base - SLC - 2
Description: The Aquarius mission will provide the first-ever
global maps of salt concentrations in the ocean surface needed to understand
heat transport and storage in the ocean.
2011 Launches
Date: Aug. 5
Mission: Juno
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
Description: The solar-powered Juno spacecraft is to orbit
Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's origins, structure,
atmosphere and magnetosphere.
Date: Aug. **
Mission: NuSTAR
Launch Vehicle: Orbital Pegasus
Launch Site: Kwajalein
Description: NuSTAR will search for black holes, map supernova
explosions, and study the most extreme active galaxies.
Date: Sept. 23
Mission: NPP
Launch Vehicle: ULA Delta II
Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Description: The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
System Preparatory Project (NPP) mission for NASA and NOAA is to measure Earth's
atmospheric and sea surface temperatures, humidity sounding, land and ocean
biological activity and cloud and aerosol properties.
Date: Sept. 8
Mission: GRAIL
Launch Vehicle: ULA Delta II Heavy
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
Description: The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission's primary
science objectives will be to determine the structure of the lunar interior
from crust to core and to advance understanding of the thermal evolution of
the moon.
Date: October *
Mission: Mars Science Laboratory
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Description: The Mars Science Laboratory is a rover that will
assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support
microbial life and to determine the planet's habitability.
Last updated February. 16, 2010