Launch Schedule

Rocket Lab's 11th Electron launch for iQPS, carrying the QPS-SAR-19 "YAMATSUMI-II" synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite to a 575 km mid-inclined orbit for iQPS'...

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

Series: QPS-SAR

Oct 28

Cartosat-3A

PSLV

ISRO

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Apr 15

Cartosat-3B

PSLV-XL

ISRO

SLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Dec 10

RISAT-2A

PSLV

ISRO

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Sep 18

IRIDE 2

Vega C

second launch dedicated to the European Space Agency's IRIDE Earth observation constellation.

ELA-1, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Oct 20

BlackSky Gen-3 6

Electron

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

Oct 26

APR 2027

KOMPSAT-6

Vega C

KOMPSAT-6, KARI's X-band SAR Earth observation satellite (successor to KOMPSAT-5), sharing a Vega C ride with ASI's PLATiNO-1 to sun-synchronous orbit.

ELV, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

— with: PLATiNO 1

Oct 19

NOV 2027

PLATiNO 2

Vega C

PLATiNO-2 mission envisages the development of the second satellite based on PLATiNO platform and embarks a Thermal Infrared (TIR) payload, validating PLATiNO...

ELA-1, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Oct 20

INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) is a NASA Earth Venture mission flying three small-satellite atmospheric-science observatories on Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha from the...

INCUS

Alpha

Firefly

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

Oct 23

StriX Launch 16

Electron

Dedicated Rocket Lab Electron launch of a StriX synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for Synspective, a Tokyo-based Earth observation company building a constellation able...

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

Series: Synspective StriX

Oct 28

StriX Launch 15

Electron

Dedicated Rocket Lab Electron launch of a StriX synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for Synspective, a Tokyo-based Earth observation company building a constellation able...

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

Series: Synspective StriX

Oct 28

StriX Launch 14

Electron

Dedicated Rocket Lab Electron launch of a StriX synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for Synspective, a Tokyo-based Earth observation company building a constellation able...

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

Series: Synspective StriX

Oct 28

Q4 2028

ALTIUS

Vega C

ALTIUS (Atmospheric Limb Tracker for Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere) is a satellite mission proposed by the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, developed in...

ELA-1, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana