Find out what's up in the night sky this month with our visible planets guide and skywatching forecast. Baikonur; Launch Schedule; Soyuz Launch Schedule in Baikonur in 2020. Also scheduled to launch in October (from Spaceflight Now): Nov. 11-12: The Northern Taurid meteor shower peaks. Dates are subject to change. Check out our "On This Day in Space" video show here, postponed from March 6 due to technical problems with the rocket. }

Delayed from mid-2020 after Boeing decision to refly the Orbital Flight Test. Generally, our Baikonur tours last for 6-5 days and the launch itself is the final and the most important part of our program.
Sept. 6: The waning, gibbous moon will make a close approach to the Red Planet in the early morning sky. It will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at 10:26 a.m. EDT (1426 GMT). Connect with friends faster than ever with the new Facebook app.

July 30: NASA's Mars 2020 rover launches to the Red Planet! return false; An Arianespace Soyuz rocket will launch the second Composante Spatiale Optique (CSO-2) military reconnaissance satellite for the French space agency CNES and DGA, the French defense procurement agency. July 17: The waning crescent moon will be in conjunction with Venus, the "morning star," at 3:27 a.m. EDT (0727 GMT). Aug. 26: A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch a classified spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. Also scheduled to launch in August (from Spaceflight Now): Sept. 1: Asteroid 2011 ES4 will make a close flyby of Earth, passing by at a safe distance of 0.0005 AU, or 46,000 miles (75,000 kilometers). Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Georgia teen apologizes for plot to kill black churchgoers and is sentenced to time in juvenile detention, Workers who lost jobs because of COVID-19 find new careers in these fields. It will launch from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on a Japanese H-2A rocket, at 4:51 p.m. EDT (2051 GMT). VIP Baikonur tour 6 days (5 nights) – 5050 Euro per pax (VIP-group up to 12 pax, individual program, “Sputnik” hotel accommodation, full board, flights are included)). Look for the pair above the eastern horizon before dawn. Look for the trio near the southwestern horizon just after sunset. July 15: The U.S. Air Force will use a Minotaur 4 rocket to launch a classified spy satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The mission will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. . Nov. 30: A penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible from the Americas, Australia and Asia. It will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will be in conjunction with Mars at 12:46 a.m. EDT (0446 GMT). Watch it live. Look for the trio in the evening sky. Around the same time, Jupiter will also make its closest approach to Earth.

If you have the right equipment and a sky dark enough to see it, now is the best time all year to look!

Nov. 30: The full moon of November, known as the "Beaver Moon," occurs at 4:30 a.m. EST (0930 GMT). It will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at 5:27 p.m. EDT (2127 GMT). Aug. 3: The full moon of August, known as the "Sturgeon Moon," occurs at 11:59 a.m. EDT (1559 GMT). Pay your attention to our other aerospace programs: Try a real Zero Gravity onboard Ilyushin-76 flying laboratory of the Cosmonaut Training Center! Oct. 31: This month has two full moons, which means we'll have a "Blue Moon" on Halloween. Every year more than 20 rocket launches are carried out from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

July 23: China plans to launch an orbiter and a small rover to Mars. Aug. 17: An Arianespace Vega rocket will launch on the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) proof-of-concept mission carrying 42 microsatellites, nanosatellites and cubesats. It will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, during a 2-hour launch window that opens at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT). Find below the details of manned and unmanned Baikonur space launch schedule. Follow Space.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.

Oct. 31: Uranus is at opposition. It will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at 5:27 p.m. EDT (2127 GMT). }); else $(objectID).collapse('show'); Please note launches may be postponed due to weather conditions. Look for the trio in the evening sky. July 25: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the SAOCOM 1B Earth observation satellite for Argentina. Watch NASA webcasts and other live launch coverage on our "Watch Live" page, and see our night sky webcasts here. Documents are accepted up to March 25, 2020.

The moon's shadow will take a similar path to the one it did for the "Great South American Eclipse" of July 2, 2019. Watch it live. It will be in conjunction with Mars at 3:38 p.m. EDT (1938 GMT). Preliminary space launches program for 2020: April 09, 2020 — Soyuz MS-16; April 25, 2020 — Progress MS-14 (unmanned launch) July 23, 2020 — Progress MS-15 (unmanned launch) October 14, 2020 — Soyuz MS-17; Baikonur tours — 2021 launches schedule. This happens about once a year, when Jupiter's position is almost directly opposite the sun in the sky. This is the best time of year to view the planet, as it is at its biggest and brightest. It will lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Look for the glowing Red Planet above the eastern horizon after sunset.