Rocket Launch Schedule
An up-to-date list of all scheduled rocket launches. There are currently 339 planned launches from spaceports worldwide.
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12 Dec, 7:20am
UTC
Details TBD.
Last Update: Rescheduled for December 12 per new NOTAMs.
12 Dec, 7:33pm
UTC
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Launch time is to the second.
14 Dec, 1:04am
UTC
GPS-IIIA (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known as "tranche") of GPS III satellites.
Last Update: Updated T-0.
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Second flight of the KAIROS launch vehicle. 5 satellites for testing various technologies will be on board: * TATARA-1 * PARUS-T1A * SC-Sat1 * ISHIKI
Updated: Dec 12, 1:00am UTC
14 Dec, 6:00pm
UTC
Possibly CZ-2D launch with PIESAT-2 05-08; details TBD.
Updated: Dec 12, 1:00am UTC
15 Dec, 12:00am
UTC
A batch of Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group. The constellation will eventually consists of 13000 satellites.
Updated: Dec 12, 1:00am UTC
15 Dec, 8:58pm
UTC
Seventh and eighth of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.
Last Update: Delayed to December 15 per marine navigation warnings.
Sixth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
Last Update: Targeting NET December 16.
17 Dec, 2:00pm
UTC
Synthetic aperture radar satellites for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.
Last Update: Updated launch pad.
18 Dec, 3:38am
UTC
Four Astranis MicroGEO communications satellite inserted in a custom geostationary orbit, from where they conduct on-orbit maneuvers to reach their individual slots.
Last Update: NET December 18 UTC (launch window per https://www.cadenaois.org/vpublic_anspdetail.jsp?view=15#).
21 Dec, 1:26am
UTC
Thuraya 4-NGS is a communication satellite being built by Airbus Defense and Space for the UAE based Yahsat. Based on the all-electric Airbus Eurostar-Neo Platform, Thuraya 4-NGS will incorporate a large 12-meter L-band antenna and a payload with on-board processing providing advanced routing flexibility of up to 3200 channels with dynamic power allocation over a large number of spot beams.
Last Update: NET December 21 UTC (launch window per https://www.cadenaois.org/vpublic_anspdetail.jsp?view=15#).
TBD
Dec 2024
SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) is an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) technology mission to demonstrate autonomous docking between 2 spacecraft in orbit. The mission will involve two spacecraft (Chaser and Target) rendezvous and docking together, plus testing attitude control of the combined spacecraft under docked conditions. The Chaser and Target spacecraft will then be separated for operating other payload. The mission is critical to develop rendezvous and docking abilities for ISRO’s future human spaceflight and lunar sample return missions.
Last Update: NET December 26.
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Payloads include the South Korean government's 425 Project Flight 3.
Last Update: NET December 29 (launch site switch is per https://twitter.com/hawkeye360/status/1859244042296385871).
TBD
2024
This is the second launch of RS1 launch vehicle developed and built by ABL Space Systems. Payload onboard is TBD.
Last Update: Reverting to TBD 2024, following the loss of the launch vehicle in a static fire anomaly.
TBD
2024
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.
Updated: Dec 12, 1:00am UTC
TBD
2024
Fourth batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.
Last Update: First Kinéis missions NET late 2023
TBD
2024
Note: Name of payload is provisional. Third launch of an ultimately 5 reconnaissance satellites for the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), with 1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite on this launch. They will be launched to low Earth orbit between 600 and 700 km by 2025, enabling South Korea’s military to observe the nuclear-armed neighbor’s key military facilities every two hours with 30-50 centimeters resolution imagery, according to a 2019 report produced by the Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning. The project is lead by the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), with input from Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Hanwha Systems and Thales Alenia Space.
Last Update: NET December.
The second inflight abort test of the Gaganyaan program.
Last Update: Pushed to NET early 2024.
TBD
2024
Sub-orbital launch of the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program for a confidential customer.
Updated: Dec 12, 1:00am UTC
TBD
2024
Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.
Last Update: NET mid-2024.
TBD
2024
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.
Last Update: NET December.
TBD
2024
BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites
Last Update: NET November.
OSAM-2 is a mission to demonstrate the ability of small spacecraft to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components in low-Earth orbit. Once it’s positioned in low-Earth orbit, the spacecraft will 3D-print two beams that extend 32 feet (10 meters) out from each side of the spacecraft. As manufacturing progresses, each beam will unfurl two solar arrays that generate as much as five times more power than traditional solar panels on spacecraft of similar size.
Last Update: NET 2024.