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2018 (MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
- February 9–25 – The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[1]
- April – Unmanned European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft will be launched to Mercury.[2]
- May 5 – Launch of NASA's InSight is scheduled.[importance?]
- June 14 – July 15 – 2018 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Russia.[3]
- July 27 – Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003. It will not be as close as the 2003 opposition.[4]
- October – The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is likely to be launched. It is intended as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which was launched in 1990.[5]
- October – The ESA's Solar Orbiter (SOLO) will be launched to orbit the Sun, aiming to perform close observations of its polar regions.[6]
- November 26 – Landing of InSight on Mars is expected.[7][importance?]
- NASA is expected to conduct the maiden flight of its Space Launch System, the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, which ended in 2011.[8]
- Super computers are projected to reach 1 Exaflop.[9]
- The US missile defense complex in Poland will be operational.[10]
- The London Convention, which prevents sea dumping, expires.[citation needed]
- Researchers and investors in space elevator technology hope to start funding the construction of the first elevator by 2031.[11]
- The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 50 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.[12]
- Expected completion of the Copenhagen City Circle Line.[13]
- NASA's Solar Probe Plus will orbit the Sun.[14]
- Israel will begin to release classified information held in its state archives from the first two decades of its existence.[15]
- JAXA's robotic SELENE-2 lunar mission is expected to be launched in 2018.[16]
In fiction
Television
- In The Simpsons episode, "Holidays of Future Passed", the episode set in December 2018, Bart is a deadbeat dad living in Springfield Elementary (which is now an apartment complex instead of a school) with Principal Skinner as his landlord. Meanwhile, a first pregnant Maggie goes into labor. This is 7 years after the episode was first broadcast in 2011.
References
- ^ "Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics - Next Winter Olympic Games in Korea". Olympic.org. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ^ http://phys.org/news/2016-07-bepicolombo-mission-mercury-track-april.html
- ^ "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ - FIFA.com". Fifa.com. Archived from the original on July 17, 2010. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
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- ^ "James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA". Jwst.nasa.gov. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ^ "Missions - Solar Orbiter - NASA Science". Science.nasa.gov. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ "NASA Reschedules Mars InSight Mission for May 2018". nytimes.com. March 9, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
- ^ "NASA's New Space Launch System Mega Rocket Won't Fly Until 2018". Space.com. December 10, 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ Dorrier, Jason. "The Race to a Billion Billion Operations Per Second: An Exaflop by 2018?". Singularity HUB. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ "US missile defence shield to be in Poland by 2018". neurope.eu. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
- ^ Boyle, A: "Cosmic Log" MSNBC, 10 October 2006
- ^ "Time Capsules: Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument - pinknantucket press". Pinknantucket.com.au. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ^ "Metro City Circle Line - Danish Architecture Centre". Dac.dk. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ^ "Solar Probe Plus - Nasa". Solarprobe.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ^ "State Archives to Stay Classified for 20 More Years, PM Instructs - Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News Source". Haaretz.com. July 28, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/pdf/1838.pdf