Launch Schedule

A SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch a batch of 24 satellites into low Earth orbit for Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet service. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster, tail number B1091, launching for a second time, is expected to land on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Oct. 3/4. Delayed from Oct. 6/7. Delayed from Oct. 8/9.

Updated: October 08

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1095, launching for a third time, will land on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: October 06

A SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy rocket (collectively referred to as Starship) will launch from Starbase, Texas, on a suborbital flight. This will be the 11th flight of the integrated launch vehicle. Similarly to Flight 10, SpaceX will not attempt to perform a catch of the Super Heavy booster (B15), which will be flying for a second time and reusing 24 of its 33 Raptor engines. Following hot staging, B15 will perform a controlled splashdown in the Gulf using “a unique landing burn engine configuration planned to be used on the next generation Super Heavy.” The Ship upper stage (S38) will target an aquatic ending in the Indian Ocean following “a dynamic banking maneuver” designed to “mimic the path a ship will take on future flights returning to Starbase.” The Ship will also perform multiple demonstrations, like deploying eight Starlink simulators and relighting a single Raptor engine during the coast phase of the mission.

Updated: September 30

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for Japan-based satellite data and analytics company, Symspective. This will be the seventh StriX satellite launched onboard an Electron rocket out of a total of 27 booked launches. The satellite will be deployed into an orbit at 583 km (362 mi) in altitude at an inclination of 42 degrees about 50 minutes after liftoff from New Zealand.

Updated: October 07

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the second batch of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites to low Earth orbit. The shorthand for this mission is T1TL-C. A $1.8 billion contract was awarded across York Space Systems, Lockheed Martin Space and Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems to establish a constellation of 126 “optically-interconnected space vehicles.” These 21 satellites were from Lockheed Martin. The Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1093, launching for a seventh time, will land on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: October 01

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1067, launching for a 31st time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: October 06

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1088, launching for an 11th time, will land on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: October 08

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1077, launching for a 24th time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.

Updated: October 08

United Launch Alliance will launch its Atlas 5 rocket in a 551 configuration to support the launch of Viasat’s ViaSat-3 Flight 2 satellite. The 6-ton spacecraft is designed to provide download speeds of more than 100 Mbps and operates using a Ka-band frequency. The satellite is built by Viasat on Boeing’s 702MP+ platform.

Updated: September 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1075, launching for a 21st time, will land on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: October 06

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: August 29

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. Delayed from Sept. 29.

Updated: September 16

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

An Ariane 6 rocket from Ariancespace, mission designation VA265, will launch the Sentinel-1D satellite into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 693 km (431 mi). Sentinel-1D is part of the Earth observation component of the European Union’s Space Programme.

Updated: October 06

An H3 launch vehicle, a rocket developed through a partnership between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), will launch the Michibiki No. 5, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-5). This will be the eighth launch of an H3 rocket.

Updated: October 08

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. Delayed from 2025.

Updated: September 16

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