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 mission for the U.S. Space Force. The mission is also referred to as TH-2 . The first stage booster, tail number B1081, launching for a 28th time, will target a landing on the droneship, Of Course I Still Love You.
Updated: October 13
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Bandwagon-5 mission to a mid-inclination low Earth orbit. The mission features 31 separation events, per the SpaceX launch timeline. The first stage booster, tail number B1085, launching for a 19th time, will target a landing on the droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas.
Updated: October 13
An H3 launch vehicle, a rocket developed through a partnership between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), will launch the Martian Moons eXplorer (MMX) mission to survey the Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos. This is set to be the first sample return mission from the Martian sphere of influence with the samples from Phobos expected to return to Earth in fiscal year 2031. The mission is supported by NASA, CNES, DLR, and ESA.
Updated: August 26
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of 27 Starlink V2 Mini optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. The first stage booster, tail number B1063, launching for a 36th time, will target a landing on the droneship, Of Course I Still Love You, positioned in the Pacific Ocean.
Updated: October 13
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch three Hawk satellites for commercial signals intelligence (SIGINT) company, HawkEye 360. The satellites will deploy into a 520 km low Earth orbit at an inclination of 97 from the Equator. This will be the 98th Electron launch.
Updated: October 13
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of 27 Starlink V2 Mini optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. The first stage booster will target a landing on the droneship, Of Course I Still Love You, positioned in the Pacific Ocean.
Updated: October 13
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch a QPS-SAR satellite on behalf of Japanese Earth observation company, iQPS. This is the 10th Electron launch booked by iQPS to fly its synthetic aperture radar satellites.
Updated: October 13
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch a QPS-SAR satellite on behalf of Japanese Earth observation company, iQPS. This is the 11th Electron launch booked by iQPS to fly its synthetic aperture radar satellites.
Updated: October 13
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: April 09
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: August 11
A Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket will launch on mission for a yet unannounced customer. This will be the debut of the Block 2 iteration of the rocket, which features larger liquid oxygen tanks on both the first and second stages, increasing the overall length of the rocket by two meters. Delayed from Summer 2026.
Updated: September 20
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch Türkiye’s first mission to the Moon, dubbed Turkish Lunar Mission 1. The spacecraft has a roughly five-month mission life, with one month spent in Earth orbit performing orbit raising maneuvers and checkouts and a month in the lunar sphere of influence, lowering its orbit and performing additional checkouts.
Updated: October 07
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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