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 the second of the two-satellite Sentinel-6 series. NASA awarded SpaceX a $94 million firm fixed price contract for the launch in 2022. The Sentinel-6B “will use a radar altimeter to bounce signals off the ocean surface and deliver continuity of ocean topography measurements,” according to NASA. The missions is designed through a partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Organization for the Exploration of Meteorological Studies.
Updated: November 10
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1085, flying for a 12th time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: November 10
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch dozens of CubeSats and other small spacecraft as part of its smallsat rideshare program called Transporter. The rocket will fly the payloads into a Sun-synchronous orbit with deployment beginning nearly 55 minutes after liftoff and concluding about 2.75 hours after launch. The mission will use the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1071, which will make its 30th flight. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1071 will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean
Updated: November 11
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: November 07
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1071, launching for a 30th time, will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’, positioned in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Nov. 13. Delayed from Nov. 19/20.
Updated: November 15
A Soyuz-2-1a rocket from Roscosmos will launch the Soyuz MS-28 mission to the International Space Station for a roughly eight month stay at the orbiting outpost. The mission is led by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Kud’-Sverchkov. He’s joined by flight engineer and fellow cosmonaut Sergei Mikaev and NASA astronaut Christopher Williams. This will be the second spaceflight for Kud’-Sverchkov and the first for both Mikaev and Williams.
Updated: November 11
An Arianespace Vega C rocket will launch the KOMPSAT-7 (KOrea Multi-Purpose SATellite-7) satellite into a Sun-synchronous orbit. The 2,000 kg satellite will provide high-resolution imagery to the government of South Korea. Also referred to as VV28, this will be the sixth flight of a Vega-C rocket.
Updated: November 14
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.
Updated: October 08
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 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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