Falcon 9 Starlink 6-821765688400 (14-Dec-2025 05:00)
[ December 14/15 / Window opens at 9:43 p.m. EST (0243 UTC)]
[map] SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1092, launching for a ninth time, will land on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Updated: December 07 [#]
Proton-M Elektro-L1765774800 (15-Dec-2025 05:00)
[ December 15 / 3:20 p.m. Moscow time (7:20 a.m. EST / 1220 UTC)]
[map] Site 81, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
[*] [vidz] A Proton-M rocket from Roscosmos will launch the Elektro-L No. 5 weather satellite, which will operate in a geostationary Earth orbit. Updated: December 12 [#]
Long March 12A Inaugural flight
1765861200 (16-Dec-2025 05:00)
[ December 16/17 / Window opens at 9:30 a.m. Beijing time / 0154 UTC on Dec. 17 (8:54 p.m. EST on Dec. 16)]
[map] Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) will launch the first Long March 12A rocket. This will be CASC’s first attempt to fly an orbital-class rocket with a reusable first stage booster. It will target a vertical landing on a landing zone pad located about 250 km (155 mi) downrange. Updated: December 12
Hanbit-Nano Spaceward
1765947600 (17-Dec-2025 05:00)
[ NET December 17 / TBD]
[map] Alcntara Launch Center, Brazil
Commercial company Innospace will launch its first Hanbit-Nano rocket on the Spaceward mission. The two-stage, 21.8-meter-tall (71.5 ft) rocket will carry eight payloads to an altitude of 300 km (186.4 mi) at an inclination of 40 degrees. Five satellites will be deployed and three experimental devices will remain fixed to the upper stage. The vehicle was inspected by the Korea AeroSpace Administration and the Brazilian Air Force. Updated: December 02
Falcon 9 Starlink 6-881766206800 (20-Dec-2025 05:00)
[ December 20 / Window opens at 12 a.m. EST (0500 UTC)]
[map] SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, believed to be tail number B1101, launching for its first time, will land on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Dec. 19. Updated: December 12 [#]
Vulcan Centaur Dream Chaser 11767157200 (31-Dec-2025 05:00)
[ TBD 2026 / TBD]
[map] SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
[*] [vidz] A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch on its second demonstration flight with Sierra Spaces Dream Chaser cargo vehicle for the International Space Station. The Dream Chaser is a lifting body resupply spacecraft that will launch on top of a rocket and land on a runway. This will be the Dream Chasers first flight to space. The Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly in the VC4L configuration with four GEM-63XL solid rocket boosters, a long-length payload fairing, and two RL10 engines on the Centaur upper stage. Delayed from August 2022, December 2023, January 2024, April 2024 and September 2024. Delayed from 2025. Updated: September 16 [#]
H3 QZS-7
1769922000 (01-Feb-2026 05:00)
[ NET February 1 / 4:30 p.m. JST (2:30 a.m. EST / 0730 UTC)]
[map] Yoshinobu Launch Complex, JAXA Tanegashima Space Center
An H3 launch vehicle, a rocket developed through a partnership between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), will launch the Michibiki No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7). This will be the ninth launch of an H3 rocket. Updated: December 01
Space Launch System Artemis 2
1770267600 (05-Feb-2026 05:00)
[ NET February 5 / TBD]
[map] Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will launch an Orion spacecraft on the Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed flight of the program. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will perform a lunar flyby during a roughly 10-day mission that will see their capsule, ‘Integrity’, splash down in the Pacific Ocean. Updated: December 01
Falcon Heavy Dragonfly
1783227600 (05-Jul-2026 05:00)
[ NET July 5, 2028 / TBD]
[map] Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s Dragonfly mission, which consists of a rotorcraft designed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) that will explore Saturn’s icy moon, Titan. The mission was originally selected in 2019 and went through multiple plan iterations across fiscal years 2020 through 2022. It passed its Preliminary Design Review in March 2023 and then its Critical Design Review in April 2025. The mission has a total lifecycle cost of $3.35 billion, of which, $256.6 million was awarded to SpaceX to provide launch services and other mission related costs. The 20-day launch window opens on July 5, 2028. Updated: April 25
Falcon 9 Starlink 15-121797138000 (13-Dec-2026 05:00)
[ December 13/14 / Window opens at 9:20 p.m. PST (12:20 a.m. EST / 0520 UTC)]
[map] SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a low Earth orbit. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1093, launching for an ninth time, will target a landing on the drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You, positioned in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Dec. 12/13. Updated: December 12 [#]