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Upcoming Launches
Oct 10, 2026
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
Polar Orbit Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Tranche 1 Transport Layer A is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms …
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Oct 12, 2026
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25
Low Earth Orbit Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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Upcoming Events
Press Event
October 08, 2026
ISS Crew-12 Return & SpaceX CRS-35 Briefing
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USAInternational Space Station briefing for Crew-12 return, and SpaceX’s 35th Commercial Resupply Services launch with the following participants: - Bill Spetch, deputy manager of Commercial, Low Earth Orbit Program - Dr. Liz Warren, deputy chief scientist, NASA’s International Space Station Office - Lee Echerd, senior mission manager, Customer Operations and Integration, SpaceX - Andreas Mogensen, leader, Human Exploration Group, ESA (European Space Agency)
Spacecraft Release
October 09, 2026
NG-24 Cygnus Release
International Space StationThe Northrop Grumman NG-24 Cygnus will be unberthed from the ISS before initiating a destructive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere taking waste along with it.
Docking
October 15, 2026
SpaceX CRS-35 Dragon Docking
International Space StationFollowing its launch atop a Falcon 9, the CRS-35 Dragon will autonomously dock to the ISS, bringing crew supplies as well as experiments.
Orbital Insertion
November 30, 2026
BepiColombo Mercury Orbit Insertion
MercuryOrbital insertion around Mercury of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission.
Nuri
NeonSat-2 to 6
LC-2 - Naro Space Center, South KoreaNeonSat-2 to 6 are part of the South Korean government's Earth observation micro-satellite constellation NeonSat (New-space Earth Observation Satelli…
Falcon Heavy
NROL-97
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAClassified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office.
Falcon 9
Transporter 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USADedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Falcon 9
Crew-13
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USASpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercia…
Starship
Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
Orbital Launch Pad 2 - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3 and the first Starship flight to deploy satellites (a group of S…
Falcon 9
USSF-385
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bu…
Electron
Owlright, Owlright, Owlright (StriX Launch 13)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandSynthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.
Long March 6A
Yaogan 40 Group 04
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China3 Chinese reconnaissance satellites of unknown purposes, officially reported as for "Electromagnetic environment probing".
Long March 8A
SatNet LEO Group 26
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.…
Kinetica 1
9 satellites
Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaShare-ride of 9 commercial Earth observation and technology demonstration satellites to SSO, details TBD.
Spaceflight News
NASA
NASA Briefing to Highlight Contributions to Martian Moons Mission
Media are invited to join NASA for a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 15, to preview the agency’s con…
NASA
NASA Announces Bold Science Initiatives for America’s Golden Age…
NASA is launching two new science and technology initiatives to deepen scientific understanding and accelerate the inno…
NASA
NASA’s SSPICY Mission to Demonstrate In-Space Inspection Technol…
A new NASA-supported spacecraft will get up close to satellites that are no longer in service, demonstrating technologi…
NASA
Crew-12 Returns to Earth
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen moments before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of C…
NASA
NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Sees Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space tel…
NASA
Webb Measures Distance to Farthest Fast Radio Burst, Suggesting …
First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts are enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant …