Launch Schedule

SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB
California, United States

B1075

Droneship Landing

Series: SpaceX Starlink

May 22

MAY 24

05:19 PM

Starlink (12-22)

Falcon 9

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS
Florida, United States

Series: SpaceX Starlink

May 20

MAY 25

04:14 PM

Starlink (17-1)

Falcon 9

SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB
California, United States

Series: SpaceX Starlink

May 20

MAY 27

11:30 PM

Starship Flight 9

Super Heavy / Starship Prototype

The booster, Booster 14-2, previously flew on Flight 7 and is set to perform a landing burn in the Gulf of Mexico instead of returning to the launch tower for a catch.

Launch Pad, Starbase, Boca Chica
Texas, United States

Flight-Proven Booster

“Full Stream Ahead”, will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a launch window that opens on May 28th, 2025 UTC. The mission will launch the next of...

May 21

MAY 28

01:30 AM

Full Stream Ahead

Electron

Rocket Lab

Pad TBD, Rocket Lab Launch Complex, Mahia Peninsula
New Zealand

Earth Observation Satellite

May 22

MAY 28

Tianwen 2

Long March 3B

CASC

LC-2, Xichang Satellite Launch Center
China

Near-Earth asteroid sample return mission. The samples are planned to be returned from asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa in 2027-2028, with the spacecraft set to continue afterward to...

May 20

JUN 08

01:11 PM

Ax-4

Falcon 9

Private crewed mission to the International Space Station.

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
Florida, United States

Crewed

May 21

JUN 08

Kosmos (Classified Payload)

Angara A5

Russian Military

LC-35/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Russia

Classified military payload

Classified Payload

Mar 03

JUN 23

04:33 PM

GOSAT-GW

H-IIA

JAXA

LA-Y1, Tanegashima Space Center
Japan

The final (50th) launch of the H-IIA rocket will be for the GOSAT-GW Earth observation satellite, which will observe greenhouse gases and water cycle measurements.

May 07

First launch for Gilmour Space and their Eris rocket, and will be the first orbital launch attempt from an Australian company. Bowen Orbital Spaceport is the first licensed...

Debut Flight

Eris

Gilmour Space

Launch Pad, Bowen Orbital Spaceport
Australia

No Live Video Expected

Vehicle Debut

May 21

G60 Polar Group TBD

Long March 8

CASC

LC-1, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Series: Qianfan

Unconfirmed Payload

Apr 25

The NASA/ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite will map the elevation of Earth's land and ice masses 4 to 6 times a month.

NI-SAR

GSLV-II

ISRO

SLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Earth Observation Satellite

Apr 25

Launch vehicle also unconfirmed and may change.

SatNet LEO Group TBD

Long March 12

CASC

LC-2, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Unconfirmed Payload

May 21

ESCAPADE (or ESCApe And Plasma Acceleration And Dynamics Explorer) are twin spacecraft designed by Rocket Lab and will be sent to Mars. The Spacecraft have been called Blue and...

ESCAPADE

New Glenn

Blue Origin

LC-36, Cape Canaveral SFS
Florida, United States

Blue Origin enlarges New Glenn’s payload fairing, preparing to debut upgraded New Shepard (SpaceNews)

Mars Orbiter

May 15

Uncrewed orbital test flight of the GaganYaan crew capsule.

GaganYaan Demo Flight 1

LVM-3

ISRO

SLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Uncrewed

Feb 09

Scramjet-powered hypersonic suborbital vehicle developed by Australian company Hypersonix. The vehicle is capable of reaching speeds of up to Mach 7 and will be launched on a...

DART AE

Electron

Rocket Lab

Pad 0C (Rocket Lab LC-2), Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Virginia, United States

Mar 28

United Launch Alliance (ULA)

USSF-106

Vulcan

LC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS
Florida, United States

Navigation Satellite

Dec 26

United Launch Alliance (ULA)

USSF-87

Vulcan

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS
Florida, United States

Dec 26

launching a radar satellite into a Sun-Synchronous Orbit to provide weather updates day and night

Sentinel-1D Mission

Vega C

Arianespace

ELA-1, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Planetary Science

Jan 12

CNES-airbus defence of four satellites to launch to Sun-Synchronous Orbit to map the world in 3d

CO3D

Vega C

Arianespace

ELA-1, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Planetary Science

Jan 12

JUL 03

Progress MS-31

Soyuz-2

Roscosmos

LC-31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

92nd Progress cargo delivery to the International Space Station (92P)

ISS Cargo

Dec 26

JUL 20

Bion-M no. 2

Soyuz-2

Roscosmos

LC-31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Bion-M is a new generation of Russian space capsule intended for biological research and capable of returning living organisms to Earth from orbit. The 'M' letter stands for...

Apr 29

JUL 24

Ionosfera-M n° 3 & 4

Soyuz-2

Roscosmos

Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome
Russia

Final two satellites for the constellation of the Russian space weather monitoring system called "Ionozond". The constellation consists of four spacecraft; the first two were...

Earth Observation Satellite

Mar 30

JUL 2025

Crew-11

Falcon 9