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 Spectrum rocket from Isar Aerospace will launch on its second test flight. As of Dec. 22, a payload for this mission hasn’t been announced.
Updated: December 23
A Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) rocket will launch the BlueBird Block 2 mission for AST SpaceMobile. The mission is referred to as BlueBird 6 by the customer and is billed as the first of AST SpaceMobile’s next-generation satellites. The satellite has a phased array antenna that is nearly 2,400 square feet.
Updated: December 22
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the third satellite in the Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation series on behalf of the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence. The satellite will operate in a Sun-synchronous orbit at 620 km (385 mi) in altitude an inclination of 97.8 degrees. These satellites are designed to have a dual Earth observation purpose, serving both civil and military applications. Its planned end of life date is in December 2032. Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number 1081, flying for a 21st time, will return to land for a touchdown at Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Updated: December 17
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, believed to be tail number B1101, launching for its first time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Dec. 19 & 20. Delayed from Dec. 21. Delayed from Dec. 28. Moved from Jan. 3 to unconfirmed date on Dec. 19.
Updated: December 22
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. Delayed from Feb. 5.
Updated: December 22
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a four-person crew to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew-12 flight. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir will command the mission alongside pilot and fellow NASA astronaut, Jack Hathaway. They are joined by mission specialists Sophie Adenot, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and Andrey Fedyaev, a Roscosmos cosmonaut. This will be the second flight for Meir and Fedyaev and the first flight for both Hathaway and Adenot. The quartet will conduct a long-duration mission onboard the ISS. Following stage separation, the first stage booster supporting this mission will return to a landing site adjacent to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Updated: December 19
A Proton-M rocket from Roscosmos will launch the Elektro-L No. 5 weather satellite, which will operate in a geostationary Earth orbit. Delayed from Dec. 15 due to an upper stage issue.
Updated: December 14
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 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: December 22
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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