This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2023.

Overview

SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and a satellite communications corporation headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the stated goal of ...

plans to conduct a crewed lunar flyby with Yusaku Maezawa using the

Starship A starship, starcraft, or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for interstellar travel, traveling between planetary systems. The term is mostly found in science fiction. Reference to a "star-ship" appears as early as 188 ...

, a crewed spacecraft being developed with partial funding from Maezawa. The flight, dubbed the '' dearMoon project'', will include six to eight artists invited as passengers. The

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(ESA) plans to launch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft, which will explore Jupiter and its large ice-covered moons, following an eight-year transit. ESA also plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the Space RIDER uncrewed spaceplane.

Blue Origin Blue Origin, LLC is an American private spaceflight, privately funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Am ...

plans to launch its first orbital-class launch vehicle,

New Glenn New Glenn is a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle in development by Blue Origin. Named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, design work on the vehicle began in 2012. Illustrations of the vehicle, and the high-level specifications, were initially ...

, which features a reusable first stage.

Orbital launches

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