Future Launches

Falcon 9 Block 5

Starlink Group 15-25

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A Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SLC-4E will loft 27 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit on Group 15-25, expanding SpaceX's broadband constellation. The first-stage booster, making its 25th flight after USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, NROL-145 and 21 Starlink missions, will attempt a landing on Of Course I Still Love You.

Falcon 9 Block 5

Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35

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SpaceX's Cargo Dragon will fly the 35th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station under NASA's CRS-2 contract, delivering supplies, hardware, and new science investigations to the station's crew.

Falcon 9 Block 5

USSF-481

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A classified U.S. Space Force Falcon 9 mission (USSF-xxx, TH-2) will deliver a polar-orbit payload from Vandenberg SLC-4E. Stage-drop zones match prior SDA Transport Layer flights, suggesting classified LEO satellites on SpaceX's Starshield bus, with the booster expected to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

H3-24

Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)

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Japan's H3 rocket will launch JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft toward Phobos to collect surface samples from the Martian moon and return them to Earth, a mission also involving NASA, ESA, CNES and DLR.

Vulcan VC6L

Amazon Leo (LV-01)

Date TBD

ULA's first Vulcan Centaur flight for Amazon's Leo broadband constellation, carrying 45 satellites into low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral. The mission debuts the LEO-optimized Centaur V upper stage and also serves as a certification flight for the configuration with the U.S. Space Force.

Ariane 64 Block 2

Amazon Leo (LE-04)

Date TBD

The fourth in a series of Ariane 6 launches dedicated to Amazon's Leo broadband megaconstellation, deploying another batch of Kuiper satellites to low Earth orbit from French Guiana as part of the network's planned buildout toward global internet coverage.

Falcon 9 Block 5

Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

Date TBD

SpaceX's Bandwagon 5 will carry a dedicated rideshare of small satellites to a mid-inclination orbit from Cape Canaveral, including Portal Space Systems' first spacecraft, Starburst-1, flying alongside other commercial and government smallsat payloads on the mid-inclination rideshare program.

GSLV Mk. II

IRNSS-1L (NVS-03)

Date TBD

ISRO's GSLV Mk II will loft NVS-03 (IRNSS-1L), the third second-generation NavIC satellite, into geosynchronous transfer orbit. The 2,232 kg I-2K spacecraft carries L1, L5 and S-band navigation signals plus a C-band ranging payload and atomic clocks, replenishing India's regional constellation after NVS-02 failed to reach its intended slot.

Long March 12A

Flight 2

Date TBD

CASC will fly the second Long March 12A, following a December 2025 debut that reached orbit successfully but saw its reusable first stage fail to land. This mission is another recovery-verification attempt as China works toward routine booster reuse to support GuoWang and other satellite-constellation launches.

SSLV

AayulSAT-1A & others

Date TBD

ISRO's Small Satellite Launch Vehicle will loft a rideshare to low Earth orbit featuring OrbitAID Aerospace's AayulSAT-1A, an in-orbit refuelling technology demonstrator, plus other satellites still to be named. The Chennai startup's SIDRP docking interface is designed to test transferring propellant, power and data to extend satellite life.

Soyuz 2.1b

Progress MS-36 (97P)

To be confirmed

Roscosmos will fly Progress MS-36 (NASA Progress 97), an uncrewed Energia cargo spacecraft, to resupply the International Space Station. After a Soyuz-2 launch from Baikonur Site 31/6, the ship is planned to dock at the station's Poisk nadir port.

Ariane 62

Metop-SG B1

Date TBD

Arianespace will fly EUMETSAT's Metop-SG B1, the first microwave-focused satellite of Europe's second-generation polar weather series, to sun-synchronous orbit on an Ariane 62 from Kourou. The Airbus-built spacecraft carries a scatterometer, radio-occultation sounder, microwave and ice-cloud imagers, and Argos-4.

Falcon 9 Block 5

Cygnus CRS-2 NG-25

Date TBD

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus NG-25 (NASA CRS-25) will deliver crew supplies and science to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. The enlarged Cygnus XL cargo craft will berth for unloading and can reboost the station before a destructive reentry at mission's end.

Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)

Gaganyaan-1

Date TBD

ISRO's first uncrewed Gaganyaan flight (G1/OM-1) will send a crew module and service module to low Earth orbit on the human-rated LVM3 (HLVM3) from Satish Dhawan. The mission will carry the Vyommitra half-humanoid to check life-support systems, then demonstrate re-entry, parachute recovery, and splashdown as a precursor to crewed Indian spaceflight.

PSLV XL

TDS-01

Date TBD

ISRO's PSLV-XL will loft TDS-01, a geostationary technology-demonstration satellite, toward GTO from Satish Dhawan's First Launch Pad. The spacecraft will prove about 35 new systems, led by an indigenous 300 mN electric thruster for orbit raising, plus atomic clocks, travelling-wave-tube amplifiers, and a quantum-key-distribution payload (QuTDS).