Past Rocket Launches
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Success
4 Jan, 6:48am
UTC
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Launch success.
CSG-3 is an Earth observation satellite for the Italian Space Agency, part of a reconnaissance constellation using synthetic aperture radars operating in the X-band.
Last Update: Launch success.
TBD
2025
CAS500-2 is the second of two similar South Korean Earth observation satellites. These spacecraft feature the AEISS-C imaging system with a ground resolution of 0.5 m in panchromatic mode and 2 m in color mode. CAS500-4 is a wide area Earth-observation satellite with a wide-area electro-optical camera (swath width of 120 km and resolution of 5 m) to be mainly used by the Rural Development Administration and the Korea Forest Service for observing crops, agricultural water resources and forest resources.
Last Update: New launch contract with SpaceX confirmed following previous contract voided due to Ukraine-Russia war.
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TBD
2025
Note: Name of payload is provisional. Fifth 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.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
TBD
2025
Note: Name of payload is provisional. Fourth 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.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
TBD
2025
This is the 22nd flight of the Northrop Grumman's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 21st flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Last Update: Delayed until after NG-22 due to spacecraft damage during transport.
TBD
2025
Microcarb is a small satellite designed to map sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2)—the most important greenhouse gas — on a global scale.
Updated: Jan 3, 8:05pm UTC
Success
30 Dec 2025, 10:40pm
UTC
2 satellites officially described as for "demonstration of new technologies for spatial targets detection" purposes.
Last Update: Launch success.
A satellite officially described as for cartography purposes, details TBD.
Last Update: Launch success.
Success
28 Dec 2025, 1:18pm
UTC
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. 50 small satellites will also be launched as ride-share payloads, including 3 from Iran.
Last Update: Launch success.
Success
26 Dec 2025, 4:07pm
UTC
China's geostationary meteorological satellite program FY-4 (Feng Yun 4) is the second generation of chinese geostationary meteorological satellites.
Last Update: Launch success.
Success
25 Dec 2025, 11:26pm
UTC
A batch of 9 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.
Last Update: Launch success.
Success
25 Dec 2025, 2:11pm
UTC
Note: Assignment of payloads to this launch is uncertain. The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite designed by TsSKB-Progress. In 2012, the development of the Arkon-2M radar satellite was stopped and instead the development of the Obzor-R was initiated. The satellite features the BRLK X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar as the imaging instrument with a ground resolution of 500 m.
Last Update: Launch success.
Success
24 Dec 2025, 3:25am
UTC
AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched. This launch will feature a single satellite.
Last Update: Satellite in contact.
Success
23 Dec 2025, 2:00am
UTC
First test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocket’s 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.
Last Update: Launch success, first stage landing attempt failed.
Maiden orbital launch attempt for the South Korean start-up Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle. Onboard this flight are five small satellites from the Brazilian space agency AEB, Brazilian university Universidade Federal do Maranhão and Indian startup Grahaa Space, as well as three payloads from AEB and Brazilian company Castro Leite Consultoria that will remain attached to the rocket, and an empty aluminium can from the South Korean beverage company Brewguru.
Last Update: Launch failure.
Failure
22 Dec 2025, 1:51am
UTC
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: Launch failure.
Success
21 Dec 2025, 6:36am
UTC
Synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS.
Last Update: Satellite in contact.
Success
20 Dec 2025, 2:15pm
UTC
NS-37 is the 16th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 37th in the New Shepard program's history.
Last Update: Mission complete.
Chinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.
Last Update: Launch success.
Success
18 Dec 2025, 5:03am
UTC
STP-S30 is a complex mission that will deliver research experiments and technology demonstrations to orbit for the DoD and contribute to future space systems development. The projected primary payload, DISKSat, will demonstrate sustained very low earth orbit (VLEO) flight and test a unique, 1-meter diameter, disk-shaped satellite bus that is designed to increase on-orbit persistence.
Last Update: Launch success.
18 Dec 2025, 5:00am
UTC
Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program, details TBD.
Updated: Dec 10, 10:01pm UTC
Success
17 Dec 2025, 3:27pm
UTC
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Launch success.
Success
17 Dec 2025, 1:42pm
UTC
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Launch success.
Success
17 Dec 2025, 5:01am
UTC
Payload consists of two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system.
Last Update: Launch success.