Falcon 9 Starlink 17-531785819600 (04-Aug-2026 05:00)
[ August 4 / Window opens at 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT / 1400 UTC)]
[map] SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. The first-stage booster, tail number B1063, launching for a 34th time, is scheduled to land on the droneship, Of Course I Still Love You, in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Aug. 1, 2 and 3. Updated: July 30 [#]
Falcon 9 BlueBird 11-131785906000 (05-Aug-2026 05:00)
[ August 5 / 3:42 a.m. EDT (0742 UTC)]
[map] SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch three Block 2 satellites for AST SpaceMobiles in-orbit cellular service (satellites 11, 12, and 13). Each BlueBird satellite has a communications array measuring about 2,400 square feet.The Falcon 9 first stage booster will land on the droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Updated: July 28 [#]
H3 QZS-7
1785992400 (06-Aug-2026 05:00)
[ NET August 6/7 / 4:30 p.m. JST on Aug. 7 (3:30 a.m. EDT / 0730 UTC on Aug. 6)]
[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. Delayed from March 2026. Updated: July 30
Falcon 9 Starlink 17-381786165200 (08-Aug-2026 05:00)
[ August 8 / 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT / 1400 UTC)]
[map] SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. The first-stage booster, tail number B1093, launching for a 16th time, is scheduled to land on the droneship, Of Course I Still Love You, in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Aug. 6 & 7. Updated: July 30 [#]
Falcon 9 Starlink 10-191786338000 (10-Aug-2026 05:00)
[ August 10 / TBD]
[map] SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. The first-stage booster, tail number B1085, launching for a 18th time, is scheduled to land on the droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, in the Atlantic Ocean. Updated: July 27 [#]
Falcon 9 Starlink 17-491786510800 (12-Aug-2026 05:00)
[ August 12 / TBD]
[map] SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. The first-stage booster, tail number B1088, launching for a 18th time, is scheduled to land on the droneship, Of Course I Still Love You, in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Aug. 10 & 11. Updated: July 30 [#]
Ariane 6 MTG-I2
1787806800 (27-Aug-2026 05:00)
[ NET August 27 / TBD]
[map] Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana
An Arianespace Ariane 62 rocket, the two-booster variant of the Ariane 6 launcher, will launch the second Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2) to a geostationary transfer orbit. The mission is a partnership between the European Space Agency and EUMETSAT. This will be the fourth Ariane 6 rocket launch of the year and the ninth to date. Updated: July 24
Falcon Heavy Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
1788066000 (30-Aug-2026 05:00)
[ NET August 30 / 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 UTC)]
[map] Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the agency’s next great observatory. Roman carries onboard two main instruments: the 300-megapixel infrared camera called the Wide Field Instrument and a coronagraph. It will carry out a minimum five-year mission capture detailed images of the universe at a dramatically faster rate than the Hubble Space Telescope, even with a primary mirror that’s the same size as Hubble’s. Watch a preview of the mission. Updated: July 30
Vega-C Sentinel-3C and FLEX Earth Explorer
1789362000 (14-Sep-2026 05:00)
[ September 14/15 / 10:21 p.m. Kourou time (9:21 p.m. EDT / 0121 UTC)]
[map] Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana
An Avio Vega-C will launch the Sentinel-3C satellite, from the European Commission’s Copernicus program, and the FLEX (FLuorescence EXplorer) satellite, from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Explorer program, to a Sun-synchronous Earth orbit at an altitude of 820 km with an inclination of 98.6 degrees. Both satellites were built by prime contractor Thales Alenia Space along with other European companies. The mission, also designated VV30, is the second Vega-C flight managed by Avio and the eighth flight of a Vega-C rocket to date. Updated: July 30
Vulcan Centaur Dream Chaser 11798693200 (31-Dec-2026 05:00)
[ NET Q4 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: December 22 [#]
Falcon Heavy Dragonfly
1814763600 (05-Jul-2027 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