Rocket Launch Schedule

An up-to-date list of all scheduled rocket launches. There are currently 326 planned launches from spaceports worldwide.

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Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Last Update: T-0 is accurate to the second.

Blue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASAโ€™s CLPS program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of payload to the lunar surface. It will land at Mare Crisium in the Crisium Basin and is designed to last 14 days before freezing in the lunar night. Resilience is the second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership "in situ" to the agency.

Last Update: Weather is 90% favorable for launch.

15 Jan, 10:00pm

Seventh test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Last Update: Now targeting Jan 15 at 22:00 UTC

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16 Jan, 6:00am

Maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, consisting of communications array, power systems, and a flight computer affixed to a secondary payload adapter ring, remaining attached to the 2nd stage. This launch will serve as New Glenn's first National Security Space Launch certification flight. Target orbit is 2400 x 19300 km at 30ยฐ inclination.

Last Update: Updated launch weather.

17 Jan, 4:10am

Details TBD.

Updated: Jan 14, 7:00pm UTC

18 Jan, 3:18am

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Updated: Jan 14, 7:00pm UTC

29 Jan, 4:00am

First of two new-generation satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications to the Spanish government, its allies, and various international organizations.

Last Update: NET January 28 EST/29 UTC.

Second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership "in situ" to the agency.

Last Update: NET January 2025.

๐ŸŽฏ Geostationary Transfer Orbit

This is a replacement satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. The constellation will provide India with an alternative to GPS and will be used for military and civilian use. Located at a geosynchronous orbit, the system will be operated by the Indian government.

Last Update: NET mid-January.

Fourth batch of five satellites for the French Kinรฉis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.

Last Update: NET early 2025.

Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) with funding backed by the Shanghai local government. Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites. First launch from the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site's LC-1.

Last Update: NET January.

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Last Update: Rescheduled for January 2025.

๐ŸŽฏ Geostationary Transfer Orbit

QZSS (Quasi Zenith Satellite System) is a Japanese satellite navigation system operating from inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits to achieve optimal high-elevation visibility in urban canyons and mountainous areas. The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation. The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation in inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits.

Last Update: GO for launch.

TBD

Feb 2025

๐ŸŽฏ Sun-Synchronous Orbit

The CSO-3 (Composante Spatiale Optique-3 satellite is the third of three new-generation high-resolution optical imaging satellites for the French military, replacing the Helios 2 spy satellite series.

Last Update: NET February 25.

This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer.

Last Update: NET February 26th

SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies. It also will search for water and organic molecules โ€“ essentials for life as we know it โ€“ in regions where stars are born from gas and dust, known as stellar nurseries, as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. NASAโ€™s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with SPHEREx. It consists of four suitcase-sized satellites, which will focus on the Sunโ€™s outer atmosphere (the corona) and how it generates the solar wind. The spacecraft also will track coronal mass ejections โ€“ large eruptions of solar material that can drive large space weather events near Earth โ€“ to better understand their evolution and develop new techniques for predicting such eruptions.

Last Update: NET February.

Last of five batches of five satellites for the French Kinรฉis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.

Updated: Jan 14, 7:00pm UTC

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Updated: Jan 14, 7:00pm UTC

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Last Update: NET February 28.

WorldView Legion is a constellation of Earth observation satellites built and operated by Maxar. Constellation is planned to consist of 6 satellites in both polar and mid-inclination orbits, providing 30 cm-class resolution.

Last Update: NET early February 2025

Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Last Update: NET March 1.

A pair of Russian optical Earth observation satellites built by the Progress Rocket Space Centre for obtaining stereo images of the Earth's surface, with maximum resolution of 1.2 m in panchromatic mode and a swath width of 32 km.

Last Update: Delayed to 17 March 2025.

Bion-M is the next generation of Russian biological research satellites. While retaining the Vostok/Zenit-derived reentry module of the earlier Bion, the propulsion module has been replace by a Yantar type module, which provides maneuvering capabilities and longer mission support. The mission duration has been increased to up to 6 months by using solar cells for energy generation. The weight of scientific equipment has been increased by 100 kilograms.

Last Update: NET March 25.

TBD

Mar 2025

๐ŸŽฏ Low Earth Orbit
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿš€ 4 Astronauts

SpaceX Crew-10 is the tenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Last Update: NET March 25.

TBD

Mar 2025

Fram2 is the worldโ€™s first astronaut mission to polar orbit. Named after the Norwegian polar research ship Fram, the Crew Dragon spacecraft will launch into a 90ยฐ circular orbit from Florida, making it the first human spaceflight to fly over Earthโ€™s polar regions from low-Earth orbit. A cupola will be installed on the Dragon spacecraft to allow for Earth observation from at an altitude of 425 โ€“ 450 km. During the 3-to-5-day mission, the crew will study green fragments and mauve ribbons of continuous emissions comparable to the phenomenon known as STEVE (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement), persistently measured at an altitude of approximately 400 - 500 km above Earthโ€™s atmosphere, among other studies. The crew will also work with SpaceX to conduct a variety of research to better understand the effects of spaceflight on the human body, which includes capturing the first human x-ray images in space, Just-in-Time training tools, and studying the effects of spaceflight on behavioural health. Chun Wang, an entrepreneur and explorer who co-founded f2pool and stakefish, serves as the mission commander. The vehicle commander will be Jannicke Mikkelsen, a film director, and cinematographer. The vehicle pilot will be Eric Philips, a professional polar adventurer and guide who has completed ski expeditions to the North and South Poles. The final crew member will be mission specialist Rabea Rogge, a robotics researcher from Berlin, currently pursuing her PhD in Norway.

Last Update: NET early 2025.