Launch Schedule

This is Galileo Launch 14 (L14) and the first launch of Galileo satellites on an Ariane 6 rocket. The satellites to be placed in orbit are designated SAT 33 and SAT 34, and...

05:01 AM

Galileo-14 (33 & 34)

Ariane 6

Arianespace

ELA-4, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Navigation Satellite

Series: Galileo

Dec 15

12:19 PM

Starlink (6-99)

Falcon 9

SpaceX

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
Florida, United States

B1094

Series: SpaceX Starlink

Dec 16

03:10 PM

Starlink (15-13)

Falcon 9

SpaceX

SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB
California, United States

Series: SpaceX Starlink

Dec 16

First orbital launch attempt from Brazilian territory in 22 years, it is also the first commercial orbital launch from the Alcântara Launch Center in the Brazilian state of...

06:45 PM

Operação Spaceward

HANBIT-Nano

INNOSPACE

Launch Pad, Alcântara Space Center
Brazil

— with: Jussara-K, PionBR-2, Solaras-S2

Dec 15

05:00 AM

STP-S30

Electron

Rocket Lab

Pad 0C (Rocket Lab LC-2), Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Virginia, United States

The STP-S30 mission is a U.S. Space Force initiative aimed at deploying research experiments and technology demonstrations to orbit, contributing to the development of future...

DiskSat | The Aerospace Corporation

Dec 15

DEC 20

05:00 AM

Starlink (6-88)

Falcon 9

SpaceX

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS
Florida, United States

B1101

Series: SpaceX Starlink

Dec 13

DEC 20

11:00 AM

TBD

Long March 5

LP-101, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Multipurpose X-band radar earth observation satellite, launching alongside an unconfirmed complement of secondary payloads.

Dec 15

DEC 23

02:00 PM

Obzor-R no. 01 & Others

Soyuz-2

Roscosmos

TBD, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Russia

Earth Observation Satellite

Block 2 BlueBirds will deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird satellites in orbit today. Featuring up to 2,400 square foot communications arrays, they...

Dec 15

DEC 24

02:50 AM

BlueBird 6 (BlueBird Block 2 FM1)

LVM-3

ISRO

SLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Series: AST SpaceMobile

Dec 16

DEC 24

Soyuz-5 Flight Test

Soyuz-5

Roscosmos

LC-45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Soyuz-5, also known as Irtysh, is the new generation medium-class launch vehicle developed by Russia in cooperation with Kazakhstan to replace the Zenit-2 and Proton Medium...

Dec 10

10:00 PM

TBD

Long March 8A

Launch vehicle also unconfirmed.

LC-1, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Dec 15

DEC 26

Fengyun-4C

Long March 3B

A constellation of two Earth observation satellites able to deliver stereoscopic imaging that allows for the creation of 3D models. Additional payload will include: Aist-ST,...

LC-2, Xichang Satellite Launch Center
China

Meteorology Satellite

Dec 13

DEC 28

01:18 PM

AIST-2T no. 01 & no. 02 and Others

Soyuz-2

Roscosmos

Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome
Russia

Earth Observation Satellite

Dec 13

DEC 31

04:15 AM

EOS-N1

PSLV

ISRO

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

— with: KID & Others

This is a rideshare mission. The primary satellite, EOS-N1 (codenamed Anvesha), is a hyperspectral imaging satellite developed largely for the DRDO (Defence Research and...

Earth Observation Satellite

Dec 14

Long March 12A Demo Flight

Long March 12A

First launch of the Long March 12A, which is the partially reusable variant of the Long March 12. The booster will attempt a landing at a pad roughly 300km downrange of Jiuquan...

TBD, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

Vehicle Debut

Dec 15

Kinetica-2 Demo Flight

Kinetica-2

CAS Space

LS-43/140, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

Expendable

Vehicle Debut

Nov 30

Launch vehicle also unconfirmed

TBD

Hyperbola-1

i-Space

LS-95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

Dec 13

This mission carries a verification satellite for South Korea’s new government-backed microsatellite constellation, flying from Rocket Lab’s launch site on the Māhia Peninsula...

"Bridging the Swarm"

Electron

Rocket Lab

LC-1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex, Mahia Peninsula
New Zealand

Dec 16

First launch of the Ceres-2, an upgraded version of the Ceres-1 with increased payload capacity.

Ceres-2 Demo Flight

Ceres-2

Galactic Energy

LS-95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China