Rocket Launches in 2023

Spaceflight in 2023: Starship flies for the first time in April and breaks apart over the Gulf of Mexico after four minutes. Its second flight in November reaches space, but both stages are lost. In August India's Chandrayaan-3 makes the first landing near the Moon's south pole, days after Russia's Luna 25 crashes in the same region. OSIRIS-REx delivers samples of the asteroid Bennu in September, and Ariane 5 retires after 27 years.

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223 launches in 2023 · 11 failures · 1 partial

Launch list for 2023

Date (UTC)	Rocket	Mission	Provider	Outcome
2023-01-03	Falcon 9 Block 5	Transporter 6 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)	SpaceX	Success
2023-01-08	Long March 7A	Shijian 23	CASC	Success
2023-01-09	Ceres-1	5 satellites	Galactic Energy	Success
2023-01-09	LauncherOne	Start Me Up	Virgin Orbit	Failure
2023-01-10	Falcon 9 Block 5	OneWeb 16	SpaceX	Success
2023-01-10	RS1	Maiden Flight	Long Wall	Failure
2023-01-12	Long March 2C	APStar 6E	CASC	Success
2023-01-13	Long March 2D	Yaogan 37 & Shiyan 22A/B	CASC	Success
2023-01-15	Long March 2D	6 x Jilin-1, Qilu-2/3 & others	CASC	Success
2023-01-15	Falcon Heavy	USSF-67	SpaceX	Success
2023-01-18	Falcon 9 Block 5	GPS III SV06	SpaceX	Success
2023-01-19	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 2-4	SpaceX	Success
2023-01-24	Electron	Virginia is for Launch Lovers (Hawk 6A-C)	Rocket Lab	Success
2023-01-26	H-IIA 202	IGS Radar 7	MHI	Success
2023-01-26	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-2	SpaceX	Success
2023-01-31	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 2-6 & ION SCV009	SpaceX	Success
2023-02-02	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-3	SpaceX	Success
2023-02-05	Proton-M Blok DM-03	Elektro-L No.4	Khrunichev	Success
2023-02-07	Falcon 9 Block 5	Amazonas Nexus	SpaceX	Success
2023-02-09	Soyuz 2.1a	Progress MS-22 (83P)	Progress RSC	Success
2023-02-10	SSLV	EOS-7 & rideshare (SSLV Demo 2)	ISRO	Success
2023-02-12	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-4	SpaceX	Success
2023-02-17	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 2-5	SpaceX	Success
2023-02-18	Falcon 9 Block 5	Inmarsat-6 F2	SpaceX	Success
2023-02-23	Long March 3B/E	ChinaSat 26	CASC	Success
2023-02-24	Soyuz 2.1a	Soyuz MS-23	Progress RSC	Success
2023-02-24	Long March 2C	Horus 1	CASC	Success
2023-02-27	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-1	SpaceX	Success
2023-03-02	Falcon 9 Block 5	Crew-6	SpaceX	Success
2023-03-03	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 2-7	SpaceX	Success
2023-03-04	Qaem 100	Nahid-1	IRGC AF	Failure
2023-03-07	H3-22	ALOS-3 (Maiden flight)	MHI	Failure
2023-03-09	Falcon 9 Block 5	OneWeb 17	SpaceX	Success
2023-03-09	Long March 4C	Tianhui-6 A/B	CASC	Success
2023-03-12	Proton-M Briz-M	Olymp-K #2 (Luch 5X)	Khrunichev	Success
2023-03-13	Long March 2C	Horus 2	CASC	Success
2023-03-15	Falcon 9 Block 5	Dragon CRS-2 SpX-27	SpaceX	Success
2023-03-15	Long March 11	Shiyan 19	CASC	Success
2023-03-16	Electron	Stronger Together (Capella 9-10)	Rocket Lab	Success
2023-03-17	Long March 3B/E	Gaofen 13-02	CASC	Success
2023-03-17	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 2-8	SpaceX	Success
2023-03-17	Falcon 9 Block 5	SES-18 & SES-19	SpaceX	Success
2023-03-22	Kuaizhou 1A	Tianmu-1 03-06	ExPace	Success
2023-03-23	Terran 1	Good Luck, Have Fun (Maiden Flight)	Relativity	Failure
2023-03-23	Soyuz 2.1a	Kosmos 2567 (Bars-M No. 4)	Progress RSC	Success
2023-03-24	Electron	The Beat Goes On (BlackSky 18-19)	Rocket Lab	Success
2023-03-24	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-5	SpaceX	Success
2023-03-26	Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)	OneWeb 18	ISRO	Success
2023-03-28	Shavit-2	Ofek-13	IAI	Success
2023-03-29	Soyuz 2.1v	Kosmos 2568 (EO MKA-4)	Progress RSC	Success
2023-03-29	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-10	SpaceX	Success
2023-03-30	Long March 2D	PIESAT-1 x 4	CASC	Success
2023-03-31	Long March 4C	Yaogan 34-04	CASC	Success
2023-04-02	Tianlong-2	Demo Flight	Space Pioneer	Success
2023-04-02	Falcon 9 Block 5	SDA Tranche 0A	SpaceX	Success
2023-04-07	Hyperbola-1	Dummy Payload	i-Space	Success
2023-04-07	Falcon 9 Block 5	Intelsat 40e	SpaceX	Success
2023-04-14	Ariane 5 ECA+	JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer)	ArianeGroup	Success
2023-04-15	Falcon 9 Block 5	Transporter 7 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)	SpaceX	Success
2023-04-16	Long March 4B	Fengyun-3G	CASC	Success
2023-04-19	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-2	SpaceX	Success
2023-04-20	Starship V1	Integrated Flight Test	SpaceX	Failure
2023-04-22	PSLV-CA	TeLEOS-2	ISRO	Success
2023-04-27	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 3-5	SpaceX	Success
2023-04-28	Falcon 9 Block 5	O3b mPower 3 & 4	SpaceX	Success
2023-05-01	Falcon Heavy	ViaSat-3 F1 (ViaSat-3 Americas) & others	SpaceX	Success
2023-05-04	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-6	SpaceX	Success
2023-05-08	Electron	TROPICS-2	Rocket Lab	Success
2023-05-10	Long March 7	Tianzhou-6	CASC	Success
2023-05-10	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 2-9	SpaceX	Success
2023-05-14	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-9	SpaceX	Success
2023-05-17	Long March 3B	Beidou-3 G4	CASC	Success
2023-05-19	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-3	SpaceX	Success
2023-05-20	Falcon 9 Block 5	Iridium-9 & OneWeb 19	SpaceX	Success
2023-05-21	Long March 2C	MUST-1A/B & Luojia-2 01	CASC	Success
2023-05-21	Falcon 9 Block 5	Axiom Space Mission 2	SpaceX	Success
2023-05-24	Soyuz 2.1a	Progress MS-23 (84P)	Progress RSC	Success
2023-05-25	KSLV-2 Nuri	NEXTSat-2 & SNIPE	KAI / Hanwha Aerospace	Success
2023-05-26	Electron	TROPICS-3	Rocket Lab	Success
2023-05-26	Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M	Kondor-FKA No.1	Progress RSC	Success
2023-05-27	Falcon 9 Block 5	BADR-8	SpaceX	Success
2023-05-29	GSLV Mk. II	IRNSS-1J (NVS-01)	ISRO	Success
2023-05-30	Long March 2F/G	Shenzhou 16	CASC	Success
2023-05-30	Chollima-1	Malligyong-1a	NATA	Failure
2023-05-31	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 2-10	SpaceX	Success
2023-06-04	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-4	SpaceX	Success
2023-06-05	Falcon 9 Block 5	Dragon CRS-2 SpX-28	SpaceX	Success
2023-06-07	Kinetica 1	Flight 2	CAS Space	Success
2023-06-09	Kuaizhou 1A	Longjiang 3	ExPace	Success
2023-06-12	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-11	SpaceX	Success
2023-06-12	Falcon 9 Block 5	Transporter 8 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)	SpaceX	Success
2023-06-15	Long March 2D	41 x Jilin-1	CASC	Success
2023-06-18	Falcon 9 Block 5	Satria-1	SpaceX	Success
2023-06-20	Long March 6	Shiyan 25	CASC	Success
2023-06-22	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-7	SpaceX	Success
2023-06-22	Delta IV Heavy	NROL-68	ULA	Success
2023-06-23	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-12	SpaceX	Success
2023-06-27	Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M	Meteor-M No.2-3 & others	Progress RSC	Success
2023-07-01	Falcon 9 Block 5	Euclid	SpaceX	Success
2023-07-05	Ariane 5 ECA+	Syracuse 4B & Heinrich Hertz (H2Sat)	ArianeGroup	Success
2023-07-07	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-13	SpaceX	Success
2023-07-09	Long March 2C/YZ-1S	2 x SatNet test satellites	CASC	Success
2023-07-10	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-5	SpaceX	Success
2023-07-12	Zhuque-2	Flight 2	LandSpace	Success
2023-07-14	Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)	Chandrayaan-3	ISRO	Success
2023-07-16	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 5-15	SpaceX	Success
2023-07-18	Electron	Baby Come Back (Rideshare)	Rocket Lab	Success
2023-07-20	Kuaizhou 1A	Tianmu-1 07-10	ExPace	Success
2023-07-20	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-15	SpaceX	Success
2023-07-22	Ceres-1	Qiankun-1 & Xingshidai‐16	Galactic Energy	Success
2023-07-23	Long March 2D	Skysight AS-01 to 03 & Lingxi-03	CASC	Success
2023-07-24	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-6	SpaceX	Success
2023-07-26	Long March 2D	Yaogan 36 Group 05	CASC	Success
2023-07-28	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-7	SpaceX	Success
2023-07-29	Falcon Heavy	EchoStar 24/Jupiter-3	SpaceX	Success
2023-07-30	PSLV-CA	DS-SAR	ISRO	Success
2023-08-02	Antares 230+	Cygnus CRS-2 NG-19 (S.S. Laurel Clark)	NGSS	Success
2023-08-03	Long March 4C	Fengyun-3F	CASC	Success
2023-08-03	Falcon 9 Block 5	Galaxy 37	SpaceX	Success
2023-08-07	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-8	SpaceX	Success
2023-08-07	Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M	Glonass-K2 No. 13 (Kosmos 2569)	Progress RSC	Success
2023-08-08	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-20	SpaceX	Success
2023-08-08	Long March 2C	5 m S-SAR-02 (Huanjing-2F)	CASC	Success
2023-08-10	Ceres-1	7 satellites	Galactic Energy	Success
2023-08-10	Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M	Luna 25	Progress RSC	Success
2023-08-11	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-9	SpaceX	Success
2023-08-12	Long March 3B/E	L-SAR4-01 (LTDC-4A)	CASC	Success
2023-08-14	Kuaizhou 1A	HEAD-3A/B/C/D/E	ExPace	Success
2023-08-17	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-10	SpaceX	Success
2023-08-20	Long March 4C	Gaofen-12 04	CASC	Success
2023-08-22	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 7-1	SpaceX	Success
2023-08-23	Soyuz 2.1a	Progress MS-24 (85P)	Progress RSC	Success
2023-08-23	Chollima-1	Malligyong-1b	NATA	Failure
2023-08-23	Electron	We Love the Nightlife (Capella Acadia 1)	Rocket Lab	Success
2023-08-25	Ceres-1	Jilin-1 Wideband-02A	Galactic Energy	Success
2023-08-26	Falcon 9 Block 5	Crew-7	SpaceX	Success
2023-08-27	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-11	SpaceX	Success
2023-08-31	Long March 2D	Yaogan 39 Group 01	CASC	Success
2023-09-01	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-13	SpaceX	Success
2023-09-02	PSLV XL	Aditya-L1	ISRO	Success
2023-09-02	Falcon 9 Block 5	SDA Tranche 0B	SpaceX	Success
2023-09-04	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-12	SpaceX	Success
2023-09-05	Ceres-1S	Tianqi 21-24	Galactic Energy	Success
2023-09-06	Long March 4C	Yaogan 33-03	CASC	Success
2023-09-06	H-IIA 202	XRISM & SLIM	MHI	Success
2023-09-09	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-14	SpaceX	Success
2023-09-10	Long March 6A	Yaogan 40	CASC	Success
2023-09-10	Atlas V 551	NROL-107 (Silent Barker)	ULA	Success
2023-09-12	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 7-2	SpaceX	Success
2023-09-15	Firefly Alpha	FLTA003 (VICTUS NOX)	Firefly	Success
2023-09-15	Soyuz 2.1a	Soyuz MS-24	Progress RSC	Success
2023-09-16	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-16	SpaceX	Success
2023-09-17	Long March 2D	Yaogan 39 Group 02	CASC	Success
2023-09-19	Electron	We Will Never Desert You (Capella Acadia 2)	Rocket Lab	Failure
2023-09-20	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-17	SpaceX	Success
2023-09-21	Ceres-1	Jilin-1 High Resolution 04B	Galactic Energy	Failure
2023-09-24	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-18	SpaceX	Success
2023-09-25	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 7-3	SpaceX	Success
2023-09-26	Long March 4C	Yaogan 33-04	CASC	Success
2023-09-27	Qased	Noor-3	IRGC AF	Success
2023-09-30	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-19	SpaceX	Success
2023-10-05	Long March 2D	Yaogan 39 Group 03	CASC	Success
2023-10-05	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-21	SpaceX	Success
2023-10-06	Atlas V 501	Amazon Leo (Project Kuiper) Protoflight Mission	ULA	Success
2023-10-09	Vega	THEOS-2, TRITON & others	Avio	Success
2023-10-09	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 7-4	SpaceX	Success
2023-10-13	Falcon Heavy	Psyche	SpaceX	Success
2023-10-13	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-22	SpaceX	Success
2023-10-15	Long March 2D	Yunhai-1-04	CASC	Success
2023-10-18	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-23	SpaceX	Success
2023-10-21	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 7-5	SpaceX	Success
2023-10-22	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-24	SpaceX	Success
2023-10-23	Long March 2D	Yaogan 39 Group 04	CASC	Success
2023-10-26	Long March 2F/G	Shenzhou 17	CASC	Success
2023-10-27	Soyuz 2.1b	Kosmos 2570 (Lotos-S1 #8)	Progress RSC	Success
2023-10-29	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 7-6	SpaceX	Success
2023-10-30	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-25	SpaceX	Success
2023-10-31	Long March 6A	Tianhui 5	CASC	Success
2023-11-03	Long March 7A	TJSW-10	CASC	Success
2023-11-04	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-26	SpaceX	Success
2023-11-08	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-27	SpaceX	Success
2023-11-09	Long March 3B/E	ChinaSat 6E	CASC	Success
2023-11-10	Falcon 9 Block 5	Dragon CRS-2 SpX-29	SpaceX	Success
2023-11-11	Falcon 9 Block 5	Transporter 9 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)	SpaceX	Success
2023-11-12	Falcon 9 Block 5	O3b mPower 5 & 6	SpaceX	Success
2023-11-16	Long March 2C/YZ-1S	Haiyang 3-01	CASC	Success
2023-11-18	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-28	SpaceX	Success
2023-11-18	Starship V1	Integrated Flight Test 2	SpaceX	Failure
2023-11-20	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 7-7	SpaceX	Success
2023-11-21	Chollima-1	Malligyong-1c	NATA	Success
2023-11-22	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-29	SpaceX	Success
2023-11-23	Long March 2D/YZ-3	3 x SatNet test satellites	CASC	Success
2023-11-25	Soyuz 2.1b	Razdan No. 1?	Progress RSC	Success
2023-11-28	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-30	SpaceX	Success
2023-12-01	Soyuz 2.1a	Progress MS-25 (86P)	Progress RSC	Success
2023-12-01	Falcon 9 Block 5	425 Project Flight 1 & rideshare	SpaceX	Success
2023-12-03	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-31	SpaceX	Success
2023-12-04	Long March 2C	MisrSat-2	CASC	Success
2023-12-04	Mir (3 stage)	S-STEP	ADD	Success
2023-12-04	Ceres-1	Tianyan-16 & Starpool-01A	Galactic Energy	Success
2023-12-05	Smart Dragon 3	SatNet test satellite	China Rocket	Success
2023-12-07	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-33	SpaceX	Success
2023-12-08	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 7-8	SpaceX	Success
2023-12-08	Zhuque-2	Flight 3	LandSpace	Success
2023-12-10	Long March 2D	Yaogan 39 Group 05	CASC	Success
2023-12-14	Long March 2F/G	Chinese Reusable Space Vehicle	CASC	Success
2023-12-15	Electron	The Moon God Awakens (QPS-SAR-5)	Rocket Lab	Success
2023-12-15	Long March 5	Yaogan 41	CASC	Success
2023-12-16	Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M	Arktika-M No.2	Progress RSC	Success
2023-12-17	Hyperbola-1	DEAR-1	i-Space	Success
2023-12-19	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-34	SpaceX	Success
2023-12-21	Soyuz 2.1b	Kosmos 2573 (Bars-M No. 5?)	Progress RSC	Success
2023-12-22	Firefly Alpha	FLTA004 (Fly the Lightning)	Firefly	Partial Failure
2023-12-23	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-32	SpaceX	Success
2023-12-24	Falcon 9 Block 5	SARah 2 & 3	SpaceX	Success
2023-12-25	Kuaizhou 1A	Tianmu-1 11-14	ExPace	Success
2023-12-25	Long March 11	Shiyan 24C	CASC	Success
2023-12-26	Long March 3B/YZ-1	Beidou-3 M26 & M28	CASC	Success
2023-12-27	Kuaizhou 1A	Tianmu-1 19-22	ExPace	Success
2023-12-27	Soyuz 2.1v	Kosmos 2574	Progress RSC	Success
2023-12-29	Falcon Heavy	OTV-7 (X-37B) (USSF-52)	SpaceX	Success
2023-12-29	Falcon 9 Block 5	Starlink Group 6-36	SpaceX	Success
2023-12-30	Long March 2C/YZ-1S	3 x SatNet test satellites	CASC	Success