According to Gizmodo, 2023 was a year of “two steps forward, one step back” for spaceflight. The article highlights the highs and lows of the year, including the record number of people in space at the same time on May 25, 2023. 

Here are some other spaceflight events from 2023: 

• Orbiter SN1: Failed shortly after deployment 
• ION-SCV deployers: Carried Cryptosat’s Crypto-2, IAC’s DRAGO-2, Genergo’s Genergo-2, and an undisclosed payload 

In 2023, public and private entities pushed the limits of what’s possible, resulting in both failures and progress.

Starship, the most important rocket currently in development, performed two flights in 2023, both ending in explosions. SpaceX made considerable progress with its megarocket during the calendar year, but the inaugural flight on April 20 was an epic fiasco that served to delay the program by several months

On May 25, 2023, 20 people were in space at the same time, breaking the previous record. The breakdown was 11 people on the ISS, 3 on Tiangong, and 6 on VSS Unity

The record comes as NASA and other space agencies plan more manned missions and commercial companies bring people to space

Here are some upcoming human spaceflight missions: 

• Artemis II The first crewed flight of NASA’s Artemis program, which will return humans to the Moon for long-term scientific exploration. Artemis II is scheduled to launch in 2024. 
• Beresheet2 A privately funded mission that will launch an orbiter and two small landers to the Moon in 2025. 

Here are some other upcoming space missions: 

• JUICE The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, which will launch between April 5 and 25, 2023. The mission will explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons for three years. 
• Luna 25 A Russian space agency mission that will launch to the Moon in July 2023 to test lunar landing technology. 
• Xuntian China’s space telescope, which is expected to launch in late 2023. The telescope will dock with China’s Tiangong space station and will have a view 300 times wider than NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Here are some spaceflight launches from 2023: 

• Psyche NASA launched this orbiter on October 13, 2023 to study the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche. 
• Lucy NASA’s Lucy probe flew by asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh on November 1, 2023, revealing it to be a binary pair. 
• Chandrayaan-3 ISRO’s GSLV-III rocket launched this mission on July 14, 2023. 
• X-37B A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B space plane on its 7th mission to space in December 2023. 

Other spaceflight launches from 2023 include: 

• PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Mission: September 2, 2023 
• PSLV-C56/DS-SAR Mission: July 30, 2023 
• LVM3 M4 / Chandrayaan-3 Mission: July 14, 2023 
• Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX): April 2, 2023 
• LVM3 M3 / OneWeb India-2 Mission: March 26, 2023 
• SSLV-D2/EOS-07 MISSION: February 10, 2023

As of November 29, 2023, there have been 183 successful orbital launches in 2023, which is on pace for roughly 200 by the end of the year. This is a record number of orbital launches, with 135 in 2021 and 179 in 2022. 

SpaceX has launched 92 rockets in 2023, including 86 Falcon 9s, four Falcon Heavies, and two Starships

Here are some other major launches in 2023: 

• Intelsat 40e/TEMPO A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched this satellite on April 7, 2023. The satellite was built by Maxar Technologies, and also carried NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution satellite (TEMPO). 
• Cargo Resupply Mission 27 A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched on March 14, 2023, carrying supplies to the International Space Station. 
• USSF 51 A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched this mission for the U.S. Space Force in March 2023. 
• Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched this spacecraft on its first crewed flight in April 2023.

Yes, India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission launched on July 14, 2023, with the goal of landing a rover on the moon. On August 23, 2023, the Chandrayaan-3 orbiter successfully deployed its Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover, which landed near the moon’s South Pole. This made India the fourth country to successfully soft-land on the moon

In 2019, ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission successfully deployed an orbiter, but its lander and rover were destroyed in a crash.

NASA’s Artemis II mission is scheduled to launch in late 2024 and will send four astronauts around the moon. The mission will include a 10-day flight that culminates in a flyby of the moon. The crew will perform extensive testing in Earth orbit before the Orion spacecraft is boosted into a free-return trajectory around the moon

The Artemis II mission will be the first crewed test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft. The crew includes three Americans and one Canadian: 

• Reid Wiseman 
• Victor Glover 
• Christina Hammock Koch 
• Jeremy Hansen 

Artemis III is the second crewed Artemis mission and is scheduled for December 2025. It will be the first American crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 in December 1972. NASA will send the first humans to explore the region near the lunar South Pole.

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