Launch Schedule

ELA-3, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Sep 12

SEP 25

Centispace-1 1S

Kuaizhou 1A

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

Sep 15

SEP 2018

HTV-7

H-2B

JAXA

Tanegashima Space Center
Japan

Kounotori-7 (Wikipedia)

ISS Cargo

Sep 14

OCT 07

SAOCOM-1A

Falcon 9

SAOCOM 1A ships to Vandenberg as Falcon 9 prepares for the first west coast RTLS (NASASpaceflight)

SLC-4E, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

SAOCOM (Wikipedia)

B1048

Earth Observation Satellite

Flight-Proven Booster

Aug 29

OCT 11

08:40 AM

58F

Soyuz MS-10 (Expedition 57/58)

Soyuz-FG

Nick Hague, NASA (Wikipedia)

LC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Aleksey Ovchinin, RSA (Wikipedia)

Crewed

ISS Expedition

Jun 13

OCT 14

Weilai-1

Zhuque-1

Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

United Launch Alliance (ULA)

Sep 07

OCT 17

04:00 AM

72F

AEHF-4

Atlas V

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral
Florida, United States

Lockheed integrates AEHF-4 satellite’s propulsion core and payload module

Sep 17

OCT 19

01:45 AM

78F

BepiColombo

Ariane 5

ELA-3, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Planetary Science

Jul 03

OCT 22

Elektro-L 3

Proton-M

GOSAT-2 Project Site (JAXA)

Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Meteorology Satellite

Jul 05

OCT 29

04:08 AM

GOSAT-2 (Ibuki-2)

H-2A

JAXA

Tanegashima Space Center
Japan

Aug 29

OCT 29

CFOSAT

Long March 2C

Chinese-French Oceanography Satellite (eoPortal)

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

Earth Observation Satellite

Aug 23

OCT 31

12:53 AM

Progress MS-10 (71P)

Soyuz-FG

LC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Jul 19

HySIS

PSLV

ISRO

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Center
India

Aug 28

GSAT-29

GSLV-III

ISRO

SLP, Satish Dhawan Space Center
India

Series: ISRO GSAT

Aug 28

BeiDou-3 M15 & M16 (BD-3)

Long March 3B

Xichang Satellite Launch Center
China

Navigation Satellite

Series: BeiDou-3

Aug 23

Gonets-M 14/15/16

Rockot

133/3, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Russia

Gonets (Wikipedia)

Jul 05

Vector founder: “100 percent” confident in first orbital launch this year (Ars Technica)

Vector-R Orbital Flight 1 (Unicorn 2A & Delfi-PQ 1 PocketQubes)

Vector-R

Vector

Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska
Alaska, United States

Vector planning first orbital launch [Summer 2018] (SpaceNews)

Vector Announces Five Orbital Launch Reservation with Open Cosmos

Test Flight

Vehicle Debut

Sep 14

Haiyang-2B

Long March 4B

Earth Observation Satellite

LC-9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
China

Sep 07

Ionospheric Connection Explorer (Wikipedia)

ICON

Pegasus

Northrop Grumman

Stargazer L-1011
United States

ICON (NASA)

SFN: Pegasus rocket selected to launch ICON satellite

Air Launch

Sep 14

NOV 07

12:47 AM

MetOp-C

Soyuz-2

ELS, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Meteorology Satellite

Polar Orbit

Jul 03

NOV 11

Spaceflight SSO-A (Sun Synch Express)

Falcon 9

SSO-A Mission Prep at Auburn Integration Facility (Spaceflight)

SLC-4E, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

Droneship Landing

Sep 13

NOV 17

CRS NG-10E (Cygnus)

Antares

Northrop Grumman

Pad 0A, Wallops Island
Virginia, United States

ISS Cargo

Jul 13

NOV 27

CRS SpX-16 (Dragon)

Falcon 9

TBD, Cape Canaveral / KSC
Florida, United States

ISS Cargo

Sep 17

Iridium NEXT (Iridium-8, 66-75)

Falcon 9

SLC-4E, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

Polar Orbit

Series: Iridium NEXT

Aug 30

HellasSat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1

Ariane 5

ELA-3, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Aug 27

GSAT-7A

GSLV-II

ISRO

SLP, Satish Dhawan Space Center
India

Series: ISRO GSAT

Aug 28

On its first fully commercial flight of Electron, Rocket Lab will launch several payloads to orbit from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand.

It's Business Time (2x Lemur-2, CICERO-x, IRVINE 01, NABEO)

Electron

Rocket Lab

LC-1, Mahia Peninsula
New Zealand

Rocket Lab set for first operational Electron launch with five payload elements (NASASpaceFlight)

Rocket Lab to Launch First Commercial Mission This Month

It's Business Time at Rocket Lab

Aug 06

GLONASS-M (60)

Soyuz-2

43/4, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Russia

Navigation Satellite

Sep 05

BeiDou-3 M17 & M18 (BD-3)

Long March 3B