Launch Schedule

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1069, launching for a 29th time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Jan. 7. Watch live coverage.

Updated: January 06

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1078, launching for a 25th time, will land on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: January 06

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch Falcon 9 rocket on a rideshare mission called Twilight. Among the payloads that are launching onboard is NASA’s Pandora small satellite, which is designed to characterize the atmospheres of exoplanets and their host stars. The company Exolaunch is responsible for deploying 22 satellites during the mission, including Dcubed-1/Araqys-D1, which will demonstrate on-orbit, 3D printing of a boom. The payloads will be deployed into a dusk-dawn Sun-synchronous orbit. About 7.5 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number 1097, launching for a fifth time, will land back at Landing Zone 4.

Updated: January 07

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), designation C62, on a rideshare mission. The primary payload is the country’s EOS-N1, an Earth observation satellite built by India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and managed by NewSpace India Limited (NSIL). There are also 18 rideshare payloads onboard, including, according to news outlets in India, the Kestrel Initial Demonstrator (KID), which is a 25 kg spacecraft from Spanish startup Orbital Paradigm, that will carry payloads for three customers (Alatyr, Leibniz University Hannover and an undisclosed customer) and test reentry capabilities. This will also be a return to flight for the PSLV rocket. The last flight of this type of rocket, PSLV-C61 on May 18, 2025, saw a mid-flight anomaly, which prevented the EOS-09 satellite from reaching its intended orbit. Delayed from Jan. 9/10.

Updated: January 05

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1085, launching for a 13th time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Moved up from Jan. 14.

Updated: January 05

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: January 05

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

A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket will launch the USSF-87 multi-manifest mission to geosynchronous orbit. The rocket will fly in a VC4L configuration, which means that there will be four solid rocket boosters attached to the first stage and it will sport a 70-foot-long (21.3 m) payload fairing. Among the payloads onboard is the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) system.

Updated: January 07

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