Launch Schedule

Launch vehicle unconfirmed and might change.

LC-9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
China

May 08

MAY 13

04:10 AM

TBD

Long March 2D

Launch vehicle unconfirmed and may change.

LA-4 / Pad 603 (SLS-2), Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

'The Sea God Sees' is Rocket Lab's third mission for Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), an Earth-imaging company from Japan. 'The Sea God Sees’ will launch...

May 08

MAY 17

08:15 AM

"The Sea God Sees"

Electron

Rocket Lab

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

Earth Observation Satellite

May 05

MAY 18

EOS-09 (RISAT-1B)

PSLV

ISRO

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

May 02

MAY 29

05:03 PM

Ax-4

Falcon 9

SpaceX

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

Private crewed mission to the International Space Station.

Crewed

Apr 29

Tianwen 2

Long March 3B

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...

TBD, Xichang Satellite Launch Center
China

Feb 13

Starship Flight 9

Super Heavy / Starship Prototype

SpaceX

Launch Pad, Starbase, Boca Chica
Texas, United States

Flight-Proven Booster

May 08

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

Vehicle Debut

May 04

SatNet LEO Group TBD

Long March 12

Launch vehicle also unconfirmed and may change.

LC-2, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Classified military payload

May 05

JUN 08

Kosmos (Classified Payload)

Angara A5

Russian Military

LC-35/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Russia

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

JUN 2025

G60 Polar Group TBD

Long March 8

LC-1, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Series: Qianfan

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

Apr 25

JUN 2025

NI-SAR

GSLV-II

ISRO

SLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Earth Observation Satellite

Apr 25

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

Apr 02

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)

ViaSat 3 EMEA

Atlas V

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS
Florida, United States

Communications Satellite

Series: ViaSat-3

Oct 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