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InSight
Spacecraft: InSight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport
Chronologies: 2016 payload # ; 2016-A ; 7,8th spacecraft.
Type: Planetary Probe (Mars)
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Sponsor: NASA
Launch: 4 March 2016 at  UT, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, by .
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Source: Jonathan Space Report No.  ; NSSDC 2014-0 ; Spaceflight Now's ;
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Cargo vehicle
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Chronologies: 2016 payload # ; 2016-A ; 7,8th spacecraft.
Type: Cargo vehicle
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Sponsor: China
Launch:  2016 at  UT, from , by a Chang Zheng 7 (1st).
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Mission: “The first launch of the Long March-7 and the cargo spacecraft will be around 2016, to serve the Tiangong-2 space laboratory.”
Source: Jonathan Space Report No.  ; NSSDC 2014-0 ; China Daily's  25 Dec 14, ; Spaceflight Now's ;
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OSIRIS-REx
Spacecraft: Osiris-Rex stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer
Chronologies: 2016 payload # ; 2016-A ; 7,8th spacecraft.
Type: Planetary
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Sponsor: NASA
Launch: 2 September 2016 at  UT, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, by an Atlas V.
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Mission: The $1 billion OSIRIS-REx mission will be send on a two-year voyage to asteroid  Bennu, a near-Earth object scientists say is made of primitive material from the ancient solar system. The probe is due to arrive at Bennu in late 2018. After a close-up survey of the asteroid, scientists will select a sampling site where the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will descend and snag a specimen of rock and dust from Bennu’s surface. OSIRIS-REx will depart Bennu in March 2021 and cruise back to Earth, deploying a landing capsule containing the samples to parachute to touchdown in Utah in September 2023.
Source: Jonathan Space Report No.  ; NSSDC 2014-0 ; Spaceflight Now's 2015 Stories, ;
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Es’hail 2
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Chronologies: 2016 payload # ; 2016-A ; 7,8th spacecraft.
Type: Communications
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Sponsor: Es’hailSat (Qatar)
Launch: Fourth quarter of 2016 at  UT, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's LC-40, by a Falcon 9.
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Notes: In December 2014, SpaceX was selected to launch Es’hail 2 satellite onboard a Falcon 9 in the fourth quarter ofe 2016. Under construction at Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corp., the spacecraft will broadcast television programming across the Middle East and Africa for Es’hailSat, a company founded in 2010 by the government of Qatar.
Source: Jonathan Space Report No.  ; NSSDC 2014-0 ; Spaceflight Now's 2014 Stories, ;
Angara A5 2dn flight test
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Chronologies: 2016 payload # ; 2016-A ; 7,8th spacecraft.
Type: Technology
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Sponsor: Russia
Launch:  2016 at  UT, from , by .
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Source: Jonathan Space Report No.  ; NSSDC 2014-0 ; Spaceflight Now's ; TASS' 14 Jan 14 ;
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Crew Dragon, 1st  Testflight
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Chronologies: 2016 payload # ; 2016-A ; 8,0th spacecraft.
Type: Piloted Spaceship
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Sponsor: SpaceX
Launch: Late 2016 at  UT, from Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A, by a Falcon 9. .
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Source: Jonathan Space Report No.  ; Spaceflight Now's 27 Jan 15, 2015 Stories, ; NSSDC 2016-0 ; ; Gunter's 
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Launch:  2016 at  UT, from , by .
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Source: Jonathan Space Report No.  ; NSSDC 2014-0 ; Spaceflight Now's ;
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