Following is a calendar of the scheduled events in space in 2005:
- Jan 8: NASA to launch probe, Deep Impact, to Comet Tempel 1. Due to rendezvous July 4. Will fire metal slug into the comet in bid to assess its structure and mineral content
- Jan 14: European probe Huygens due to descend to Saturn moon Titan, relaying data back via mothership Cassini
- March 2: US to launch DART (Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology) spacecraft, a small experimental robot craft designed to manoeuvre near satellites
- March 25: Launch of CryoSat, a European satellite to measure variations in the thickness of the Earth's continental ice sheets and marine ice cover as part of an assessment of global warming
- May 12: Opening of launch window (till June 3) of flight by US space shuttle Discovery, the first shuttle mission since the loss of Columbia in 2003
- Aug 10: Launch of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, designed to look for evidence of water on Mars
- Oct 26: Europe to launch Venus Express, unmanned mission to Earth's closest neighbour
- (late 2005, date unknown): China expected to launch second manned space mission, Shenzhou VI
