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2018 (MMXVIII) will be a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium, the 18th year of 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.
  • March – NASA plans to launch the exoplanet-seeking TESS mission.
  • March 9–18 – The 2018 Winter Paralympics are scheduled to take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
  • May 5 – Launch of NASA's InSight is scheduled.
  • June 14 – July 15 – 2018 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Russia.
  • July 27 – Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003. It will not be as close as the 2003 opposition.
  • October – Unmanned European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft will be launched to Mercury.
  • 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.
  • October – The ESA's Solar Orbiter (SOLO) will be launched to orbit the Sun, aiming to perform close observations of its polar regions.
  • November 26 – Landing of InSight on Mars is expected.
  • NASA is expected to conduct the maiden flight of its Space Launch System, the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, which ended in 2011.
  • Super computers are projected to reach 1 Exaflop.
  • The U.S. missile defense complex in Poland will be operational.
  • The London Convention, which prevents sea dumping, expires.
  • The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 50 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.
  • Expected completion of the Copenhagen City Circle Line.
  • NASA's Solar Probe Plus will orbit the Sun.
  • Israel will begin to release classified information held in its state archives from the first two decades of its existence.
  • JAXA's robotic SELENE-2 lunar mission is expected to be launched in 2018.

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