Launch Schedule

Japan-based company Space One Co. Ltd. will launch its four-stage KAIROS (Kii-based Advanced and Instant Rocket System) with multiple customers’ satellites onboard. This will be the third launch of the rocket following two failed flights in 2024. Onboard the rocket are five satellites: TerraSpace’s TATARA-1, Space Cube LLC’s SC-Sat1a, Hio Gakuen High School’s HErO, ArkEdge Space’s AETS-1 and Taiwan Space Center/National Taiwan University’s NutSat-3. Delayed from Feb. 25 and March 1 due to poor weather.

Updated: March 02

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. The first stage booster, tail number 1080, launching for a 25th time, will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: February 24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. More than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1097, launching for a seventh time, will land on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: March 02

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. More than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1071, launching for a 32nd time, will land on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: March 03

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch EchoStar’s EchoStar 25 satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The direct broadcast satellite is a collaboration between EchoStar and its subsidiary, Dish, as well as Lanteris Space Systems, a subsidiary of Intuitive Machines. More than 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1085, launching for a 14th time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: March 03

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. More than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1088, launching for a 14th time, will land on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: March 03

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. The first stage booster, tail number 1095, launching for a sixth time, will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: March 03

A Spectrum rocket from Isar Aerospace will launch on its second test flight. The two-stage rocket is carrying five CubeSats onboard: CyBEEsat from TU Berlin, TriSat-S from the University of Maribor, Platform 6 from EnduroSat, FramSat-1 from NTNU, and SpaceTeamSat1 from TU Wien Space Team. The sixth and final announced payload is an experiment called “Let it Go” from Dcubed. Exolaunch is responsible for managing payload integration and deployment. Delayed from Jan. 21 due to a pressurization valve issue.

Updated: February 16

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7satellite into low Earth orbit. This is the second satellite in AST SpaceMobile’s next-generation satellite constellation and is designed to support space-based cellular broadband for commercial and government customers. This will be the third launch of a New Glenn rocket to date. As of Jan. 22, Blue Origin hasn’t stated if it intends to attempt a booster recovery on this mission.

Updated: February 26

Firefly Aerospace will launch its Alpha rocket on a return to flight mission following an anomaly seen during Alpha Flight 6. The rocket will carry what the company calls a “test demo” payload. It will also test out new systems that will fully roll out with Firefly’s Block 2 configuration of the rocket on Alpha Flight 8. Delayed from Feb. 18. Delayed from Feb. 27, 28, and March 1/2 “due to high upper-level winds.”

Updated: March 02

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 & 6. Delayed from Feb. 8. Delayed from March 6 due to helium issue with the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.

Updated: February 21

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