Launch Schedule

Next round of U.S. optical spy satellites to start launching in 2018 (Spaceflight Now)

SLC-6, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

Classified Payload

Jan 15

JAN 21

Jilin-1 Hyperspectral

Long March 11

LA-4 / "Mobile Pad", Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

No Live Video Expected

Jan 09

JAN 24

06:08 PM

Microsat-R

PSLV

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Jan 14

JAN 2019

Beidou-2G8

Long March 3C

LC-3, Xichang Satellite Launch Center
China

NASA Flight Opportunities Program

No Live Video Expected

Jan 09

JAN 2019

NS-10 (Suborbital)

New Shepard

Blue Origin

Launch Pad, Corn Ranch Spaceport
Texas, United States

New Shepard to fly 9 NASA-sponsored Payloads to Space on NS-10

Suborbital

Dec 20

FEB 05

09:01 PM

GSAT-31 & HellasSat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1

Ariane 5

ELA-3, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Series: ISRO GSAT

Jan 12

FEB 09

Crew Dragon Demo-1 (DM-1)

Falcon 9

Falcon 9 will launch the Crew version of their Dragon spacecraft (Dragon 2) to the International Space Station as part of the first demonstration flights of NASA's Commercial...

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

First SpaceX Crew Dragon test flight set for January (SpaceNews)

B1051

Jan 10

02:00 AM

PSN VI (Nusantara Satu) & Spaceflight GTO-1 (w/ SpaceIL Lunar Lander)

Falcon 9

China Great Wall Industry Corp lands Indonesian commercial satellite order (Space News)

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Lunar Lander

Jan 14

FEB 18

RCM (RADARSAT)

Falcon 9

RADARSAT Constellation (CSA)

SLC-4E, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

01/15 16:47 UTC - CBC reports that the February 18 launch date has been postponed. Stay tuned for further updates.

Flight-Proven Booster

Jan 15

FEB 19

10x OneWeb

Soyuz-2

ELS, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Jan 01

FEB 21

EgyptSat-A

Soyuz-2

LC-31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Dec 31

WGS-10

Delta IV

SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Jan 03

Outernet?

Electron

LC-1, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula
New Zealand

Unconfirmed Payload

Jan 13

EMISAT

PSLV

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Jan 12

Cartosat-3 & NEMO-AM

PSLV

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Dec 31

MAR 01

12:42 AM

Soyuz MS-12 (Expedition 59/60)

Soyuz-FG

LC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Christina Koch, NASA

Nick Hague, NASA

Aleksey Ovchinin, RSA

Jan 09

MAR 09

01:50 AM

PRISMA

Vega

ELV, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Jan 10

MAR 16

CRS SpX-17 (Dragon)

Falcon 9

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Jan 09

MAR 26

4x O3b satellites

Soyuz-2

ELS, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Jan 01

LauncherOne Flight 1

LauncherOne

Under development by Virgin Orbit since 2007, LauncherOne is an air launched rocket for small satellite payloads. Having secured launch contracts for several customers, Virgin...

Cosmic Girl, 747-400, Location TBD
Country TBD

Virgin Galactic continues to test LauncherOne engine (Spaceflight Insider)

Dec 18

CST-100 Starliner (Boe-OFT)

Atlas V

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Uncrewed

Jan 07

Arabsat 6A

Falcon Heavy

Manufactured by Lockheed Martin for the Saudi Arabian Arab Satellite Communications Organization, Arabsat 6A will be positioned in geostationary orbit providing television,...

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

Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly on Arabsat's Newest Communications Satellite

Arab Satellite Comunications Organization (Wikipedia)

SpaceX Wins Falcon Heavy Deal for Arabsat 6A (Via Satellite)

Dec 19

RISAT-2BR1

PSLV

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Dec 31

VCLS / ELaNa XX

LauncherOne

NASA Awards Venture Class Launch Services Contracts for CubeSat Satellites (NASA)

Cosmic Girl, 747-400, Location TBD
Country TBD

Air Launch

NASA VCLS

Dec 18

Chinese rocket maker OneSpace secures $44m in funding; Expace prepares for commercial launch (SpaceNews)

OS-M1 Flight 1

OS-M1

OneSpace

TBD, China TBD
China

Jan 01

Eutelsat-7C

Ariane 5

Satellite Profile (Eutelsat)

ELA-3, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Oct 18

Blagovest-14L

Proton-M

LC-81/24, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Jul 02

BlackSky Global 4

Electron

LC-1, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula
New Zealand

Aug 08

Meridian-M 18L

Soyuz-2

LC-43/4, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Russia

Dec 28

RISAT-2B

PSLV

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Aug 28

ICON

Pegasus

Ionospheric Connection Explorer (Wikipedia)

Stargazer L-1011, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

ICON (NASA)

SFN: Pegasus rocket selected to launch ICON satellite

Air Launch

Dec 18

STP

LauncherOne

Virgin Orbit wins first Defense Department launch contract (SpaceNews)

Cosmic Girl, 747-400, Location TBD
Country TBD

Air Launch

Dec 18

GomSpace

LauncherOne

GomSpace signs contract for low-inclination launch on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne (GomSpace)

Cosmic Girl, 747-400, Location TBD
Country TBD

Dec 18

APStar-6D

Long March 3B

TBD, Xichang Satellite Launch Center
China

Dec 31

Zhongxing-18

Long March 3B

TBD, Xichang Satellite Launch Center
China

Jan 08

Gonets-M 14/15/16

Rockot

LC-133/3, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Russia

Gonets (Wikipedia)

Oct 16

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

Launch Pad, Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska
Alaska, United States

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

Vector Announces Five Orbital Launch Reservation with Open Cosmos

Vehicle Debut

Dec 22

Crewed Test Flight 1

New Shepard

Blue Origin

Launch Pad, Corn Ranch Spaceport
Texas, United States

Jan 07

Progress MS-11 (72P)

Soyuz-2

LC-31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Jan 07

APR 17

CRS NG-11E (Cygnus)

Antares

Pad 0A, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Virginia, United States

Nov 30

APR 2019

Chandrayaan-2

GSLV-III

Chandrayaan-2 (Wikipedia)

SLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Jan 12

Meteor-M (2-2)

Soyuz-2

Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome
Russia

Meteorology Satellite

Jan 01

APR 2019

Shijian-20

Long March 5

China's Long March 5 rocket to return to flight in second half of 2018 (GBTIMES)

LP-101, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Return to Flight

Dec 29

MAY 07

CRS SpX-18 (Dragon)

Falcon 9

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Jul 27

EDRS-C/HYLAS-3

Ariane 5

ELA-3, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Oct 18

GSAT-30

Ariane 5

ELA-3, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Series: ISRO GSAT

Aug 28

Eutelsat 5 West B & MEV-1

Proton-M

TBD, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Jan 01

Spektr-RG

Proton-M

TBD, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Space Telescope

Jan 14

Crew Dragon Demo-2 (DM-2)

Falcon 9

NASA Astronaut Doug Hurley (Wikipedia)

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

NASA Astronaut Bob Behnken (Wikipedia)

Commercial Crew on tight but achievable timeline for crewed flights in 2018 (NASASpaceFlight.com)

Jan 12

NROL-111

Minotaur 1

Minotaur rocket launch for NRO expected at Wallops by end of 2018 (Spaceflight Now)

Pad 0B, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Virginia, United States

Classified Payload

Sep 07

CAS-6

Long March 11

TBD, China TBD
China

Sea Launch

Jan 08

Long March 5B Flight 1

Long March 5B

LP-101, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Jan 01

Amos-17

Falcon 9

Pad TBD, Cape Canaveral / KSC TBD
Florida, United States

Jan 08

Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test (Suborbital)

Falcon 9

Pad TBD, Cape Canaveral / KSC TBD
Florida, United States

Suborbital

Jan 08

Intelsat-39

Ariane 5

ELA-3, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Oct 18

AEHF-5

Atlas V

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Sep 07

STP-2 (DSX, Lightsail 2, Formosat-7)

Falcon Heavy

Rideshare mission for U.S. military confirmed as second Falcon Heavy launch (SpaceflightNow)

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

Space Test Program (Wikipedia)

Jan 10

Yamal-601

Proton-M

TBD, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Jan 01

SSMS (POC)

Vega

ELV, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Jan 10

JUL 29

Soyuz MS-13 (Expedition 60/61)

Soyuz-FG

LC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Andrew R. Morgan, NASA

Luca Parmitano, ESA

Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA

Jan 01

JUL 31

Progress MS-12 (73P)

Soyuz-2

LC-31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Jan 01

JUL 2019

HTV-8

H-2B

JAXA

LA-Y2, Tanegashima Space Center
Japan

Jan 08

JUL 2019

SSLV Demo 1

SSLV

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Vehicle Debut

Jan 11

AUG 2019

CST-100 Starliner (Boe-CFT)

Atlas V

NASA Astronaut Nicole Mann (Wikipedia)

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Boeing Astronaut Chris Ferguson (Wikipedia)

NASA Astronaut Eric Boe (Wikipedia)

Jan 07

SEP 12

Soyuz MS-14 (Test Flight)

Soyuz-2

LC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Uncrewed

Jan 01

SEP 2019

GISAT

GSLV-II

GEO Imaging Satellite (Wikipedia)

SLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Dec 31

SEP 2019

Electron's First Wallops Launch (Unknown Payload)

Electron

LC-2, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Virginia, United States

Dec 20

Crew-1

Falcon 9

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

Dec 06

JCSAT-18/Kacific-1

Falcon 9

Pad TBD, Cape Canaveral / KSC TBD
Florida, United States

Jan 03

STP-3 (STPSat-6)

Atlas V

ULA wins competition for $191 million Air Force launch (SpaceNews)

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Sep 05

GPS III SV02 (Magellan)

Delta IV

SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Series: GPS

Dec 28

Cartosat-3A

PSLV

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Jan 12

OCT 18

Soyuz MS-15 (Expedition 61/62)

Soyuz-FG

LC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Jan 01

CRS SpX-19 (Dragon)

Falcon 9

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Apr 03

CRS2 NG-12 (Cygnus)

Antares

Pad 0A, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Virginia, United States

Dec 04

CSG-1 & CHEOPS

Soyuz-2

ELS, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Nov 23

BeiDou-3 M19 & M20 (BD-3)

Long March 3B

TBD, Xichang Satellite Launch Center
China

Series: BeiDou-3

Jan 08

DEC 2019

GPS III SV03 (Columbus)

Falcon 9

Cape Canaveral / KSC TBD
Florida, United States

Series: GPS

Dec 28

DEC 2019

BeiDou-3 M21 & M22 (BD-3)

Long March 3B

TBD, Xichang Satellite Launch Center
China

Series: BeiDou-3

Jan 08

DEC 2019

Firefly Alpha Flight 1

Alpha

Firefly

SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

Vehicle Debut

Dec 23

SAOCOM-1B

Falcon 9

SLC-4E, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

Dec 23

GPS III SV04

Falcon 9

Cape Canaveral / KSC TBD
Florida, United States

Series: GPS

Dec 24

SXM-7

Falcon 9

Cape Canaveral / KSC TBD
Florida, United States

Jan 14

Circle Aerospace 1

Electron

Rocket Lab signs agreement for ten dedicated Electron missions with Circle Aerospace

LC-1, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula
New Zealand

Aug 08

Chang'e 5

Long March 5

LP-101, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Lunar Lander

Lunar Rover

Jan 14

Firefly Aerospace Enters Launch Brokerage Agreement with Spaceflight

Spaceflight Rideshare

Alpha

Firefly

SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

Dec 21

SSLV Demo 2

SSLV

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Dec 31

GiSAT-1

Falcon 9

Cape Canaveral / KSC TBD
Florida, United States

GiSAT-1 (Wikipedia)

Jun 13

SARah 1

Falcon 9

SLC-4E, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

Reconnaissance Satellite

Sep 17

X-37B OTV-6 (AFSPC-7)

Atlas V

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Jan 14

UniSat 7

Vega

ELV, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Sep 28

Ingenio

Vega

ELV, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Mar 05

IGS Optical-7

H-2A

JAXA

LA-Y1, Tanegashima Space Center
Japan

Reconnaissance Satellite

Nov 10

Planet Flock 1

Electron

LC-1, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula
New Zealand

Jan 04

Kleos KSM

Electron

Rocket Lab signs contract to launch first satellites for Kleos Space constellation

LC-1, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula
New Zealand

Sep 20

Bars-M3

Soyuz-2

LC-43/4, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Russia

Reconnaissance Satellite

Dec 28

Neitron

Soyuz-2

LC-43/4, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Russia

Dec 07

Oceansat-3

PSLV

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Oct 14

IRNSS-1J

PSLV

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India