A regularly updated listing of planned orbital missions from spaceports around the globe. Dates and times are given in Greenwich Mean Time. “NET” stands for no earlier than. “TBD” means to be determined.
See our Launch Log for a listing of completed space missions since 2004.
A SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy rocket (collectively referred to as Starship) will launch from Starbase, Texas, on a suborbital flight. This will be the 10th flight of the integrated launch vehicle. Similarly to Flight 9, SpaceX will not attempt to perform a catch of the Super Heavy booster and instead attempt a controlled splashdown in the Gulf. The Ship upper stage will also target an aquatic ending and will also attempt multiple demonstrations, like deploying eight Starlink simulators and relighting a single Raptor engine during the coast phase of the mission.
Updated: August 15
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch OHB Italia’s NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) spacecraft on a rideshare mission alongside seven other satellites. NAOS is part of the Luxembourg government’s Directorate of Defense’s Luxembourg Earth Observation (LUXEOSys) program and will operate in a 450 km polar low Earth orbit. The satellite was originally scheduled to launch in the second half of 2023 on an Arianespace Vega-C rocket, but the Government of Luxembourg shifted the 382 million euro mission to the Falcon 9 because of the issues with Vega-C. The launch onboard Falcon 9 was then planned for sometime between October 2024 and January 2025. Alongside the main satellite is Dhruva Space’s LEAP-1; Planet’s Pelican-3 and Pelican-4; and Exolaunch’s Acadia-6, FFLY-1, FFLY-2, and FFLY-3. SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1063, launching for a 27th time. A little less than eight minutes after liftoff, B1063 will target a landing back at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4).
Updated: August 18
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1067, launching for a 30th time, will target a landing on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Previously assigned to Falcon 9 booster tail number B1095, launching from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Delayed from Aug. 13. Delayed from Aug. 15. Delayed from Aug. 16. Delayed from Aug. 25.
Updated: August 21
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1095, launching for a second time, will target a landing on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: August 21
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1082, flying for a 15th time, will target a landing on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean. Booster switched from B1063. Delayed from Aug. 20. Delayed from Aug. 22. Delayed from Aug. 24.
Updated: August 21
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little less than 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1077, launching for a 23rd time, will target a landing on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: August 21
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Cygnus spacecraft from Northrop Grumman on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. This will be the 22nd launch of a Cygnus spacecraft and the first launch of a Cygnus XL spacecraft, which is capable of carrying 1,250 kg more cargo than the previous version of the Cygnus spacecraft. The spacecraft is named the S.S. William ‘Willie’ C. McCool. The NG-22 mission was delayed indefinitely after the spacecraft was damaged during transport to Florida.
Updated: August 21
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a rideshare mission carrying two spacecraft for NASA and one for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The primary payload is NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), which will use its 10 science instruments to study the boundary of the Sun’s heliosphere. Along for the ride are NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, designed to observe the ultraviolet light from the Earth’s geocorona, and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1), which will monitor the Sun for key space weather activity. All three spacecraft will be sent toe Lagrange Point 1 (L1), which is about a 1.5 million km from Earth and is positioned in between the Earth and the Sun.
Updated: August 21
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch a pair of identical spacecraft on NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission. The two satellites, named Blue and Gold, will make a roughly 11-month journey to Mars where they will then perform about an 11-month science mission while orbiting the Red Planet. Blue and Gold were manufactured by Rocket Lab over about 3.5 years and carry science experiments from the University of California, Berkeley. This launch of the New Glenn rocket will also feature a landing attempt on its landing barge in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Oct. 13, 2024. Delayed from mid-August.
Updated: August 15
An H3 launch vehicle, a rocket developed through a partnership between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), will launch the first HTV-X cargo resupply vehicle to the International Space Station.
Updated: July 03
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the second of the two-satellite Sentinel-6 series. NASA awarded SpaceX a $94 million firm fixed price contract for the launch in 2022. The Sentinel-6B “will use a radar altimeter to bounce signals off the ocean surface and deliver continuity of ocean topography measurements,” according to NASA. The missions is designed through a partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Organization for the Exploration of Meteorological Studies.
Updated: February 27
A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch on its second demonstration flight with Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser cargo vehicle for the International Space Station. The Dream Chaser is a lifting body resupply spacecraft that will launch on top of a rocket and land on a runway. This will be the Dream Chaser’s first flight to space. The Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly in the VC4L configuration with four GEM-63XL solid rocket boosters, a long-length payload fairing, and two RL10 engines on the Centaur upper stage. Delayed from August 2022, December 2023, January 2024, April 2024 and September 2024.
Updated: May 05
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s Dragonfly mission, which consists of a rotorcraft designed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) that will explore Saturn’s icy moon, Titan. The mission was originally selected in 2019 and went through multiple plan iterations across fiscal years 2020 through 2022. It passed its Preliminary Design Review in March 2023 and then its Critical Design Review in April 2025. The mission has a total lifecycle cost of $3.35 billion, of which, $256.6 million was awarded to SpaceX to provide launch services and other mission related costs. The 20-day launch window opens on July 5, 2028.
Updated: April 25
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