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Vega-C | IRIDE 2

Avio S.p.A | Italy
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Second dedicated launch for the European Space Agency's IRIDE Earth observation constellation.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Vega-C | IRIDE 1

Avio S.p.A | Italy
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

First dedicated launch for the European Space Agency's IRIDE Earth observation constellation.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Long March 5 | Chang'e 7

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Chang'e 7/CE-7 is scheduled to launch in 2026, including an orbiter, a lander, a mini-hopping probe, and a rover. The mission will land in the South Pole regions of the Moon to study lunar surface environment around the South Pole, especially in looking for water ice in lunar soil.

Lunar Orbit
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H3-24 | HTV-X3

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Japan
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Third flight of the upgraded Japanese HTV-X spacecraft designed to resupply the International Space Station.

Low Earth Orbit
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H3-24 | HTV-X2

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Japan
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Second flight of the upgraded Japanese HTV-X spacecraft designed to resupply the International Space Station.

Low Earth Orbit
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H3-24 | Martian Moon eXplorer (MMX)

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Japan
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

MMX is a Japanese scientific mission to land on Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, to collect samples before bringing them back to Earth. The mission includes a small French/German rover to explore the surface of Phobos.

Mars Orbit
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RFA One | Maiden Flight

Rocket Factory Augsburg | Germany
SaxaVord Spaceport
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

First flight of the RFA One launch vehicle. Will carry 7 satellites for various companies and organizations coordinated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). * AllBertEinStein * ARTICA * Curium Two * ERMINAZ * PCIOD * Separation Ring Mission * SpaceDREAM

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Ariane 62 | Galileo L15 (FOC FM28 & FM31)

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Payload consists of two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system.

Medium Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer E

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Tranche 1 Tracking Layer E is one of five missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer constellation, which will provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.

Polar Orbit
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Antares 330 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-25

Northrop Grumman Space Systems | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

This is the 25th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 24th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Low Earth Orbit
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Recent Launches
Long March 4B
Success
18 hours, 19 minutes ago
Tianhui 7
Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

A satellite officially described as for cartography purposes, details TBD.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Success
2 days, 9 hours ago
AIST-2T 01 & 02
Cosmodrome Site 1S - Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation

A pair of Russian optical Earth observation satellites built by the Progress Rocket Space Centre for obtaining stereo images of the Earth's surface, …

Long March 3B/E
Success
4 days, 6 hours ago
Fengyun-4C
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

China's geostationary meteorological satellite program FY-4 (Feng Yun 4) is the second generation of chinese geostationary meteorological satellites.

Long March 8A
Success
4 days, 23 hours ago
SatNet LEO Group 17
Commercial LC-1 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…

Soyuz 2.1a
Success
5 days, 8 hours ago
Obzor-R No.1
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Note: Assignment of payloads to this launch is uncertain. The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite desi…

LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)
Success
6 days, 19 hours ago
BlueBird Block 2 #1
Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, requi…

Long March 12A
Success
1 week ago
Demo Flight
Long March 12A Pad - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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 …

HANBIT-Nano
Failure
1 week ago
Spaceward
HANBIT Pad - Alcântara Space Center, Federative Republic of Brazil

Maiden orbital launch attempt for the South Korean start-up Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle. Onboard this flight are five small sa…

H3-22
Failure
1 week, 1 day ago
Michibiki 5 (QZS-5)
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 - Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

QZSS (Quasi Zenith Satellite System) is a Japanese satellite navigation system operating from inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits to achieve o…

Electron
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
The Wisdom God Guides (iQPS Launch 6)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS.

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