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Starship | Flight 13
SpaceX | United States of AmericaSpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
July 24, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
13th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Second flight of Starship V3. For the first time, Starship will carry 20 V3 Starlink satellites to space, which will extend solar arrays and antennas and will attempt to connect with ground stations in South Africa and the larger Starlink constellation via high-capacity lasers. 6 of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators to continue testing methods of analyzing Starship’s heat shield readiness for return to launch site on future missions. Several tiles on Starship have been painted white to simulate missing tiles and serve as imaging targets in the test.
Suborbital Booster 20 - Maiden Flight Gulf of Mexico
Kinetica 1 | 5 satellites
CAS Space | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
July 23, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Long March 3B/E | Tianlian 2-06
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
July 23, 2026, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Tianlian is a Chinese data tracking and relay communications geostationary satellite series. The TL 2 (Tian Lian 2) satellites represent the second generation of this relay satellite network, and is based on the DFH-4 Bus, a three-axis-stabilized telecommunications satellite platform. TL 2 will be used to support real-time communications between orbiting satellites and ground control stations. This system will replace the current network of ground-based space tracking and telemetry stations and space tracking ships.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Gravity-1 | 9 satellites
Orienspace Technology | ChinaHaiyang Oriental Spaceport
July 22, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | MRV-1
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
July 21, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Northrop Grumman/SpaceLogistics MRV-1 is a mission extension payload including a mission robotic vehicle (MRV) and multiple mission extension pods (MEPs). The MRV is designed to attach up to 30 MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) to various satellites in GEO over the course of its life, and the MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) are 400 kg spacecraft designed to be captured by the MRV and then attached to a customer's satellite. A single MEP can extend a 2000 kg satellite's service life by up to 6 years. For this mission, 2 of the MEP's will service satellites for Intelsat, while the third will service a satellite for Optus.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1069 - Flight Proven ( ) Atlantic Ocean
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-39
SpaceX | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
July 21, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
Soyuz 2.1b | 16 x Rassvet-3
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
July 19, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
Vikram-I | Demo Flight
Skyroot Aerospace | IndiaSatish Dhawan Space Centre, India
July 18, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
First launch of Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-I launch vehicle. This first launch will carry 4 payloads: - Grahaa Space's SOLARAS S3 satellite - Cosmoserve Space's in-orbit robotic arm Embrace - An in-orbit demonstration from DCUBED - Skyroot's own SCOPE satellite
Low Earth Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer E
SpaceX | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
July 16, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Tranche 1 Transport Layer E is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance. This launch carries 21 satellites manufactured by York Space Systems.
Polar Orbit B1103 - Flight Proven ( ) Of Course I Still Love You
Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-29
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 14, 2026, 2:47 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Soyuz MS-29 will carry three cosmonauts and one astronaut to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The crew consists of Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, as well as NASA astronaut Anil Menon.
Low Earth Orbit
