Space exploration: Space will reach new heights in 2025, with a skyrocketing list of missions to aid the knowledge of the universe, and the surface of the moon as well as faraway moons and the climate of our own planet.
SpaceX is still working on improving the connection across the planet Earth, thanks to its Starlink megaconstellation (and that was confirmed by the 53-satellite-bundled “doubleheader” launch of Group 10-34 27 satellites, along with Group 15-7 26 satellites, June 28, 2025, out of Cape Canaveral, and Vandenberg Space Force Bases in Florida), but the world space community is welcoming a range of groundbreaking missions to witness.
These new projects headed by NASA, ESA, ISRO, JAXA among others will take the boundaries of science and human exploration to newer highs.
Top 10 future space missions to look forward to in 2025
These are the top 10 future space missions to look forward to in 2025 and beyond and they represent the wide range of ambitions that are driving humanity to the stars:
- intuitive Machines IM-3 (PRISM)
Launch Date: 2026
Destination: Moon
Description: Under General NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, Intuitive Machines IM-3 mission will launch scientific experiments and rovers to the moon. The purpose of this mission is to explore geology of the moon and demonstration of the technologies of human travel in the mission of NASA Artemis. There were two previous launches that experienced difficulties in landing.
- ESCAPADE (Escape and plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)
Launch: December 2025
Destination: Mars
Description: NASA is creating ESCAPADE mission with UC Berkeley, which will include two small satellites, namely, Blue, and Gold, that will orbit Mars at different altitudes. They will learn about the plasma and magnetic fields of the planet to know how Mars lost its atmosphere which is an important aspect of determining the habitability of the planet in the past.
- NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR)
Launch Date: 2025
Destination: The Earth Orbit
Description NISAR is a joint project between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that will involve the deployment of a radar satellite to scan the surface of the earth with high accuracy using dual-frequency radar. It will track land movements related to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and environmental changes like deforestation and ice melt.
- Artemis II
Launch : April 2026
Lunar Orbit: Destination
Description: The Artemis II is a crewed mission being the first such Artemis undertaking, during which four astronauts will orbit the Moon in a 10-day mission to certify the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) to land on the lunar surface.
- Gaganyaan-2
Launch Date: 2025 (Test Flights)
Destination: Low Earth orbit
Synopsis: Gaganyaan is the ISRO program to take an Indian to space with an un-crewed test with two test flights in 2025 to test life support, avionics, safety systems as part of India first crewed flight, Gaganyaan-3. These missions are important to make India the fourth country that would send human to space independently.
- Space Rider
Launch Date: 2027
Landing: Low Earth Orbit
Description The Space Rider by ESA is a reusable uncrewed spaceplane due to carry out microgravity experiments in low Earth orbit. It will also examine plant growth, the behavior of materials, and biology, all under the nearly-weightless environment.
- Dragonfly
Launch Date: July 2028
The destination is Titan (Saturn Moon).
Description: Dragonfly NASA is a Titan rotorcraft mission that will survey the surface of Titan, which is proving to be rich in organics, and may then investigate prebiotic chemistry. It will be delayed by many years due to funding and technical reviews.
- Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)
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Destination: The Moon of the Mars (Phobos)
Description JAXA MMX mission is planned to visit the moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos) and will land on Phobos to retrieve samples to bring back to Earth by 2031 and learn how they were formed and the early life on Mars.
9.VERITAS (Venus Emissivity,Radio Science, InSAR, Topography and Spectroscopy)
Launch Date: 2028
Destination: Venus
Description: What NASA proposes to do in VERITAS is to image Venus at high resolution to explore the geology, tectonics and volcanism of the surface with the aim of determining why Venus and the Earth developed in different ways.
- Sentinel-6C
Launch date: November 2030
Destination: Earth orbital radius
Description: Sentinel-6C is a joint NASA-NOAA-ESA-EUMETSAT project, as a continuation of the Sentinel-6 mission named after Michael Freilich; the rocket will quantify the sea level changes across the world, ocean winds, as well as the water vapor to aid in research of climate change.
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