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 another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will land on a droneship positioned in the Pacific Ocean.
Updated: November 27
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will land on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: November 27
A PSLV-XL rocket from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch the Proba-3 spacecraft on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). The pair of spacecraft will separate from the upper stage about 18 minutes after liftoff. The pair will line up with the Sun about 150 m (492 ft) apart to mimic a solar eclipse. This will be ESA’s first payload on a rocket from ISRO since the Proba-1 mission, which launched in 2001.
Updated: November 30
Marking its return to flight, a Vega-C rocket will launch the Sentinel-1C into a sun-synchronous Earth orbit at an altitude of about 700 km (435 mi.). The mission, also referred to as VV25, will deliver the latest satellite that makes up the European Union’s Copernicus fleet, a flagship Earth observation program. The mission is being overseen by Arianespace. Delayed from December 3 due to “the need to conduct further precautionary checks and activities on launcher preparation and finalization.”
Updated: November 27
A SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch the SiriusXM-9 satellite, which will deliver radio services for the SiriusXM service. The satellite, which will eventually be positioned in a geostationary orbit, is based on Maxar’s 1300-class platform. The first-stage booster of the Falcon 9 is scheduled to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: November 27
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch the company’s Blue Ring spacecraft, which is capable of both hosting and deploying multiple payloads. Blue Origin will attempt to land the first stage booster on its sea-based landing platform, ‘Jacklyn.’
Updated: November 20
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch a pair of identical spacecraft on NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission. The two satellites, named Blue and Gold, will make a roughly 11-month journey to Mars where they will then perform about an 11-month science mission while orbiting the Red Planet. Blue and Gold were manufactured by Rocket Lab over about 3.5 years and carry science experiments from the University of California, Berkeley. This launch of the New Glenn rocket will also feature a landing attempt on its landing barge in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from October 13.
Updated: September 11
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.
Updated: October 17
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