This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2023.
Overview
SpaceX plans to conduct a crewed lunar flyby with
Yusaku Maezawa
is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector. He founded Start Today in 1998 and launched the online fashion retail website Zozotown in 2004, now Japan's largest. Most recently, Maezawa introduced a custom-fit apparel brand ZOZO and ...
using the
Starship, a crewed spacecraft being developed with partial funding from Maezawa.
The flight, dubbed the ''
dearMoon project
The ''dearMoon'' project is a lunar tourism mission and art project conceived and financed by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. It will make use of a SpaceX Starship spacecraft on a private spaceflight flying a single circumlunar trajectory ...
'', will include six to eight artists invited as passengers.
The
European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch the
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft in development by the European Space Agency (ESA) with Airbus Defence and Space as the main contractor. The mission will study three of Jupiter's Galilean moons: Ganymede, ...
(JUICE) spacecraft, which will explore
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth t ...
and its large ice-covered moons, following an eight-year transit.
ESA also plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the
Space RIDER
The Space Rider (Space Reusable Integrated Demonstrator for Europe Return) is a planned uncrewed orbital lifting body spaceplane aiming to provide the European Space Agency (ESA) with affordable and routine access to space. – Japa
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