A regularly updated listing of planned orbital missions from spaceports around the globe. Dates and times are given in Greenwich Mean Time. “NET” stands for no earlier than. “TBD” means to be determined.
See our Launch Log for a listing of completed space missions since 2004.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a classified payload on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office. This is the second NRO mission launched by SpaceX as part of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 contract awarded in August 2020. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1096, flying for a fourth time, will target a landing at Landing Zone 2.
Updated: November 25
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1082, launching for an 18th time, will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’, positioned in the Pacific Ocean.
Updated: December 06
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1083, launching for a 16th time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: December 06
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch the RApid Innovation payload demonstration SatellitE-4 (RAISE-4) spacecraft on behalf of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The single satellite contains eight technology demonstrations by various universities, research institutions and companies in Japan. This is the first dedicated Electron rocket launch for JAXA and the first of two launches planned for the agency’s Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration Program. Delayed from Dec. 4/5 due to poor weather. Delayed from Dec. 6/7. Delayed from Dec. 8/9 to “allow time for additional checkouts.”
Updated: December 08
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1093, launching for an ninth time, will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’, positioned in the Pacific Ocean.
Updated: December 07
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1094, launching for a sixth time, will land on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions’, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: December 07
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1092, launching for a ninth time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: December 07
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch 27 Amazon LEO satellites (formerly Project Kuiper) into a low Earth orbit. The mission, which is referred to as Leo Atlas 4 or LA-04 by Amazon, will the seventh mission to date delivering its broadband internet satellites into orbit.
Updated: December 05
An Arianespace Ariane 6 rocket, contracted by the European Space Agency (ESA), will launch two Galileo First Generation satellites (designated SAT 33 and SAT 34) into a medium Earth orbit at an altitude of 23,222 km (14,429 mi).
Updated: December 03
Commercial company Innospace will launch its first Hanbit-Nano rocket on the Spaceward mission. The two-stage, 21.8-meter-tall (71.5 ft) rocket will carry eight payloads to an altitude of 300 km (186.4 mi) at an inclination of 40 degrees. Five satellites will be deployed and three experimental devices will remain fixed to the upper stage. The vehicle was inspected by the Korea AeroSpace Administration and the Brazilian Air Force.
Updated: December 02
An H3 launch vehicle, a rocket developed through a partnership between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), will launch the Michibiki No. 5, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-5). This will be the eighth launch of an H3 rocket. Delayed from Dec. 6/7 “due to the occurrence of a need to check onboard equipment on the second stage.”
Updated: December 03
An H3 launch vehicle, a rocket developed through a partnership between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), will launch the Michibiki No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7). This will be the ninth launch of an H3 rocket.
Updated: December 01
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will launch an Orion spacecraft on the Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed flight of the program. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will perform a lunar flyby during a roughly 10-day mission that will see their capsule, ‘Integrity’, splash down in the Pacific Ocean.
Updated: December 01
A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch on its second demonstration flight with Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser cargo vehicle for the International Space Station. The Dream Chaser is a lifting body resupply spacecraft that will launch on top of a rocket and land on a runway. This will be the Dream Chaser’s first flight to space. The Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly in the VC4L configuration with four GEM-63XL solid rocket boosters, a long-length payload fairing, and two RL10 engines on the Centaur upper stage. Delayed from August 2022, December 2023, January 2024, April 2024 and September 2024. Delayed from 2025.
Updated: September 16
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. Originally planned as the first post-certification flight with a four-person crew, this will instead be an uncrewed cargo flight to test changes to the vehicle made in the aftermath of the Crewed Flight Test that launched in 2024.
Updated: November 24
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s Dragonfly mission, which consists of a rotorcraft designed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) that will explore Saturn’s icy moon, Titan. The mission was originally selected in 2019 and went through multiple plan iterations across fiscal years 2020 through 2022. It passed its Preliminary Design Review in March 2023 and then its Critical Design Review in April 2025. The mission has a total lifecycle cost of $3.35 billion, of which, $256.6 million was awarded to SpaceX to provide launch services and other mission related costs. The 20-day launch window opens on July 5, 2028.
Updated: April 25
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