Upcoming Spaceflight Launches
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Electron | StriX Launch 18
Rocket Lab | United States of AmericaRocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
TBD December, 2029
Electron | StriX Launch 19
Rocket Lab | United States of AmericaRocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
TBD December, 2029
Electron | StriX Launch 20
Rocket Lab | United States of AmericaRocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
TBD December, 2029
Ariane 62 | ARIEL & Comet Interceptor
ArianeGroup | FranceGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2029
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Atmospheric Remote sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large survey mission (ARIEL) is an ESA telescope. During a 4-year mission, ARIEL will observe 1000 planets orbiting distant stars and make the first large-scale survey of the chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres. For a select number of exoplanets, ARIEL will also perform a deep survey of their cloud systems and study seasonal and daily atmospheric variations. ARIEL shares the ride with another ESA mission, Comet Interceptor. It consists of three spacecraft which will be positioned at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, where they will wait for a long-period comet or an interstellar object to come by. Once the desired target appears, the spacecraft will separate and perform a flyby of the target, compiling a detailed 3D profile of a comet.
Sun-Earth L2
Starship | Starlab
SpaceX | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD December, 2029
Vega-C | Harmony
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2029
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Harmony, ESA's 10th Earth Explorer mission, consists of 2 satellites that will orbit Earth in tandem with a Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite in various configurations. The Harmony satellites’ synthetic aperture radar instruments will receive the Sentinel-1 satellite's radar signals that bounce back, or ‘backscatter’, from Earth’s surface. At the same time, Harmony’s thermal-infrared instruments provide complementary observations of the sea surface as well as the position and motion of clouds above it.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Vulcan | NGG-2 (USSF-50)
United Launch Alliance | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2029
Ariane 6 | 2 x Galileo Second Generation (G2)
ArianeGroup | FranceGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2029
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-13
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD March, 2030
SLS Block 1B | Artemis VI
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD September, 2030
PSLV-DL
EOS-N1 and others
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, IndiaSmall Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD. This launch will also carry 18 o…
Falcon 9
Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAThe Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope …
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-96
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-88
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
CSG-3
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USACSG-3 is an Earth observation satellite for the Italian Space Agency, part of a reconnaissance constellation using synthetic aperture radars operatin…
Long March 7A
Shijian 29 A-B
201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China2 satellites officially described as for "demonstration of new technologies for spatial targets detection" purposes.
Long March 4B
Tianhui 7
Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaA satellite officially described as for cartography purposes, details TBD.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
AIST-2T 01 & 02
Cosmodrome Site 1S - Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian FederationA 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
Fengyun-4C
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaChina's geostationary meteorological satellite program FY-4 (Feng Yun 4) is the second generation of chinese geostationary meteorological satellites.
Long March 8A
SatNet LEO Group 17
Commercial LC-1 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of ChinaA batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…
