🚀Launch Calendar

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 8A

Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China · Aug 4, 2026, 08:50 AM UTC

Details TBD.

SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA · Aug 4, 2026, 02:00 PM UTC

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

China Rocket Co. Ltd. · Smart Dragon 3

Haiyang Oriental Spaceport · Aug 5, 2026, 02:35 AM UTC

Details TBD.

SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA · Aug 5, 2026, 07:42 AM UTC

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched. This launch will feature 3 satellites.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries · H3-22

Tanegashima Space Center, Japan · Aug 6, 2026, 07:30 PM UTC

QZSS (Quasi Zenith Satellite System) is a Japanese satellite navigation system operating from inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits to achieve optimal high-elevation visibility in urban canyons and mountainous areas. The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation. The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation in inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits.

SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA · Aug 8, 2026, 02:00 PM UTC

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 7A

Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China · Aug 9, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC

Details TBD.

SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA · Aug 10, 2026, 02:49 PM UTC

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA · Aug 12, 2026, 02:00 AM UTC

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 12

Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China · Aug 17, 2026, 02:00 AM UTC

Details TBD.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 5

Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China · Aug 24, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

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.

Arianespace · Ariane 62

Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana · Aug 27, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

Third of EUMETSAT's third generation of weather satellite.

SpaceX · Falcon Heavy

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA · Aug 30, 2026, 11:26 AM UTC

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA infrared space telescope with a 2.4 m (7.9 ft) wide field of view primary mirror and two scientific instruments. The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) is a 300.8-megapixel multi-band visible and near-infrared camera, providing a sharpness of images comparable to that achieved by the Hubble Space Telescope over a 0.28 square degree field of view, 100 times larger than imaging cameras on the Hubble. The Coronagraphic Instrument (CGI) is a high-contrast, small field of view camera and spectrometer covering visible and near-infrared wavelengths using novel starlight-suppression technology. Roman objectives include a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing, and probing the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structure, with the goal of measuring the effects of dark energy, the consistency of general relativity, and the curvature of spacetime.

Rocket Lab · Electron

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand · Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

LOXSAT 1 is a demonstration satellite of a complete cryogenic oxygen fluid management system in orbit, developed by Eta Space and sponsored by NASA's Tipping Point program. The system will be integrated on a Rocket Lab Photon-LEO satellite bus and collect critical cryogenic fluid management data in orbit for 9 months, demonstrating capabilities of in-space cryogenic storage and transferal. Eta Space plans to use technology developed for this mission to develop a truly commercial depot intended to serve multiple customers in the future.

Rocket Lab · Electron

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand · Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Rocket Lab · Electron

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand · Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

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

SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA · Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax services via its Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees. In early 2022, Globalstar contracted with MDA for the construction of 17 new 2nd generation refresh satellites to replenish the existing constellation. Rocket Lab is sub-contracted to build the satellites' buses and the launch dispensers.

Agency for Defense Development · Mir

Sea Launch · Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

Note: Launch vehicle name is provisional. First orbital full version launch of the South Korean military small satellite launch vehicle, after 2 sub-orbital tests of individual stages on 30 March and 30 December 2022, and 1 orbital test flight without the 2nd stage on 4 December 2023. Details TBD.

Isar Aerospace · Spectrum

Andøya Spaceport · Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

Second test flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle. This launch will carry 5 cubesats and 1 non-separable experiment as part of European Space Agency (ESA)'s “Boost!” program: * CyBEEsat (TU Berlin) * TriSat-S (University of Maribor) * Platform 6 (EnduroSat) * FramSat-1 (NTNU) * SpaceTeamSat1 (TU Wien Space Team) * Let It Go (Dcubed, non-separable experiment)

LandSpace · Zhuque-3

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China · Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

Second test launch of LandSpace’s ZQ-3 rocket. Payload identities are TBD.