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FEBRUARY 18:
> Planned landing of the Mars 2020 Rover and drone helicopter Mission on the Red Planet.
The rover will collect samples that will be returned to Earth by a future Mars mission ( perhaps in 2026).

MARCH:
> OSIRIS-REx Departure from asteroid Bennu, carrying samples back to Earth.

JULY 22:
> Falcon 9; planned launch of DART from Vandenberg. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test will impact the Didymos asteroid moon in October 2022, to test deflection of an asteroid.

> Planned launch on the 1st ULA Vulcan Centaur of the Astrobotic Peregrine lunar lander to the moon. It was one of the former Google Lunar X PRIZE contenders.

AUGUST 11:
> BepiColombo Venus gravity assist enroute to Mercury.

OCTOBER 01:
> BepiColombo Mercury gravity assist.

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER:
> Planned launch on an Atlas 5-401 of NASA's Lucy flyby mission to 7 asteroids.

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> The UAE Mars Hope will enter orbit around the Red Planet.

- Planned launch on a Vega rocket of ESA's e.Deorbit active space debris removal spacecraft from Kourou ELA-1.

% Planned first test flight of the UK's Reaction Engines SABRE engine on the unmanned Nacelle Test Vehicle.
2 Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engines will power the future Skylon space plane.

+ India plans to launch its first crewed spacecraft 'Gaganyaan' into orbit on a GSLV Mk 3 rocket.

% Blue Origin plans to launch a BE-4 + BE-3 powered New Glenn orbital rocket from Cape Canaveral SLC-36.

% Planned first flight of the SpaceX Starship.

=* Planned launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on an Ariane 5 ECA from Kourou ELA-3 to the L2 Lagrange point.

> Moon Express plans to launch the first commercial lunar sample- return mission.