List of spaceflight launches in July–September 2026

This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the third quarter of the year 2026.

For all other spaceflight activities, see 2026 in spaceflight. For launches during the rest of 2026, see List of spaceflight launches in January–March 2026, List of spaceflight launches in April–June 2026, and List of spaceflight launches in October–December 2026.

Orbital launches

July


Date and time (UTC)	Rocket		Flight number	Launch site		LSP
		Payload (⚀ = CubeSat)	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
		Remarks
14 July ^[1]	Soyuz-2.1a			Baikonur Site 31/6		Roscosmos

		Soyuz MS-29	Roscosmos	Low Earth (ISS)	Expedition 74/75
July (TBD)^[4]	Falcon Heavy			Kennedy LC-39A		SpaceX

		Griffin-I	Astrobotic	TLI to lunar surface	Lunar lander
		FLIP	Astrolab	TLI to lunar surface	Lunar rover
		⚀ CubeRover^[5]	Astrobotic	TLI to lunar surface	Lunar rover
		Griffin Mission 1. Part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Landing site is expected to be near the lunar south pole at Nobile Crater.^[2] Falcon Heavy core stage (B1091) could possibly feature the first Falcon Heavy center core recovery attempt since STP-2.^[3]
July (TBD)^[6]	Soyuz-2.1a			Baikonur Site 31/6		Roscosmos

		Progress MS-35 / 95P	Roscosmos	Low Earth (ISS)	ISS logistics

August


Date and time (UTC)	Rocket		Flight number	Launch site		LSP
		Payload (⚀ = CubeSat)	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
		Remarks
15 August^[7]	Electron			Mahia LC-1		Rocket Lab

		Aspera	NASA	Low Earth	Astronomy
August (TBD)^[9]	Long March 5			Wenchang LC-1		CASC

		Chang'e 7 orbiter	CNSA	Selenocentric	Lunar orbiter
		Chang'e 7 relay satellite	CNSA	Selenocentric	Communications
		Chang'e 7 lander	CNSA	Selenocentric to lunar surface	Lunar lander
		Chang'e 7 rover	CNSA	Selenocentric to lunar surface	Lunar rover
		Chang'e 7 hopper	CNSA	Selenocentric to lunar surface	Lunar hopper
		The Rashid 2 rover was removed from this mission due to ITAR concerns. A new 6 Meter Diameter Fairing will be used in this mission.^[8]
August (TBD)^[10]	Falcon 9 Block 5			Kennedy LC-39A		SpaceX

		SpaceX CRS-35	NASA	Low Earth (ISS)	ISS logistics
August (TBD)^[11]^[12]	Falcon 9 Block 5			Vandenberg SLC-4E		SpaceX

		Transport Layer Tranche 2 × 7	SDA	Low Earth	Missile tracking
		First of third launches for the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer Tranche 2 (Tranche 2 Transport Layer A Mission).

September


Date and time (UTC)	Rocket		Flight number	Launch site		LSP
		Payload (⚀ = CubeSat)	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
		Remarks
September (TBD)^[11]^[12]	Vulcan Centaur			Vandenberg SLC-3E		ULA

		Transport Layer Tranche 2 × 7	SDA	Low Earth	Missile tracking
		Second of three launches for the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer Tranche 2 (T2TR-B Mission).
September (TBD)^[13]^[14]	Vega-C			Kourou ELV		Arianespace

		Sentinel-3C	EUMETSAT	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation
		Third Sentinel-3 satellite.
September (TBD)^[16]	Falcon Heavy			Kennedy LC-39A		SpaceX

		Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope	NASA	Sun–Earth L₂	Infrared astronomy
		Formerly known as the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).^[15]

To be determined Q3

Date and time (UTC)

Rocket

Flight number

Launch site

LSP

Payload
(⚀ = CubeSat)

Operator

Orbit

Function

Decay (UTC)

Outcome

Remarks

Q3 (TBD)^[17]

Firefly Alpha

Vandenberg SLC-2W

Firefly

QuickSounder

NOAA

Low Earth

Meteorology

First satellite in NOAA's Near Earth Orbit Network (NEON) Program.

Q3 (TBD)^[13]

Ariane 64^[18]

Kourou ELA-4

MTG-I2^[19]

Q3 (TBD)^[20]^[21]

Cape Canaveral SLC-41

ULA

WGS-11+ (PTS-P1)^[22]

USSF/Northrop Grumman

Geosynchronous

Communications/Technology demonstration

First WGS launch on Vulcan. On-orbit demonstration mission for the U.S. Space Force's Protected Tactical Satcom (PTS) program.

Q3 (TBD)
^[20]

Vulcan Centaur

Cape Canaveral SLC-41

ULA

LDPE-4 (ROOSTER-4)

United States Space Force

Geosynchronous

Technology demonstration

TBA

USSF

TBA

USSF-43 Mission.

Q3 (TBD)^[23]

Miura 5

Kourou

PLD Space

Low Earth

Flight test

First flight of Miura 5.

For launches after 30 September, see List of spaceflight launches in October–December 2026

Suborbital flights


Date and time (UTC)	Rocket		Flight number	Launch site		LSP
		Payload (⚀ = CubeSat)	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
		Remarks
July (TBD)^[24]	Black Brant IX			Wallops Flight Facility		NASA

		Dynamo-3	Goddard Space Flight Center	Suborbital	Geospace science
		First of two launches.
July (TBD)^[25]	Black Brant IX			Wallops Flight Facility		NASA

		Dynamo-3	Goddard Space Flight Center	Suborbital	Geospace science
		Second of two launches.

References

^ "Next year's Russian manned missions to ISS due in March, September — source". TASS. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
^ "NASA's Artemis Rover to Land Near Nobile Region of Moon's South Pole". NASA (Press release). 20 September 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
^ Edwards, Jon [@edwards345] (21 July 2023). "Next few Heavy missions all require we expend the center core, but should have at least one mission next year where we recover it (Astrobotic Griffin)" (Tweet). Retrieved 30 January 2024 – via Twitter.
^ Foust, Jeff (17 July 2024). "NASA cancels VIPER lunar rover". SpaceNews. Retrieved 28 July 2024. NASA said Griffin was now expected to be ready for the mission no earlier than September 2025.
^ "Spacefarer & CubeRover Joint Lunar Rover Demonstration on Griffin-1". Astrobotic (Press release). 8 April 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
^ "Космодром Байконур" [Baikonur Cosmodrome]. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
^ "Electron/Curie - Aspera". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
^ Jones, Andrew (24 March 2023). "China loses UAE as partner for Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
^ Jones, Andrew (19 September 2022). "UAE rover to fly on China's Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
^ "Falcon 9 Block 5 - SpaceX CRS-35". Next Spaceflight. 17 January 2024. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
^ ^a ^b Werner, Debra (6 April 2022). "War in Ukraine underscores need for missile defense upgrade". SpaceNews. Retrieved 11 April 2022. Because of that funding, we will be able to launch that Tranche One Tracking Layer starting in May of 2025.
^ ^a ^b Edwards, Jane (21 March 2022). "SDA Solicits Proposals for Tranche 1 Tracking Layer Prototyping Effort". GovCon Wire. Retrieved 11 April 2022. SDA said it expects the T1 Tracking Layer's first plane to launch no later than April 30, 2025, and the subsequent planes to follow on one-month intervals.
^ ^a ^b "Planned launches". EUMETSAT. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
^ "Arianespace supporting the European Union's Copernicus programme with Vega C". Arianespace (Press release). 29 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
^ Foust, Jeff (20 May 2020). "NASA renames WFIRST space telescope after pioneering woman astronomer". SpaceNews. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
^ "NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Roman Space Telescope". NASA (Press release). 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ "Firefly Aerospace Awarded NASA Contract to Launch NOAA's QuickSounder Spacecraft". Firefly Aerospace (Press release). 25 September 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
^ "EUMETSAT to exploit ESA-developed launchers and flight operations software". EUMETSAT. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
^ Krebs, Gunter (10 September 2022). "MTG-I 1, 2, 3, 4 (Meteosat 12, 14, 15, 17)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Space Systems Command Issues Launch Task Orders for FY22 NSS Missions" (PDF). Space Systems Command (Press release). 26 May 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
^ Erwin, Sandra (22 February 2022). "U.S. and international partners to share launch cost of new communications satellite". SpaceNews. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
^ Erwin, Sandra (9 April 2023). "Northrop Grumman developing military communications satellite for 2025 launch". SpaceNews. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
^ Pinedo, Emma (20 October 2023). "Spain's PLD Space expects first orbital launch in Q1 2026 from French Guiana". Reuters. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
^ "HESTO Selects Three 2025 Pathfinder Project Instruments". 11 July 2025. Retrieved 30 January 2026.
^ "HESTO Selects Three 2025 Pathfinder Project Instruments". 11 July 2025. Retrieved 30 January 2026.

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[tass-20231101-1] "Next year's Russian manned missions to ISS due in March, September — source". TASS. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.

[2] "NASA's Artemis Rover to Land Near Nobile Region of Moon's South Pole". NASA (Press release). 20 September 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.

[3] Edwards, Jon [@edwards345] (21 July 2023). "Next few Heavy missions all require we expend the center core, but should have at least one mission next year where we recover it (Astrobotic Griffin)" (Tweet). Retrieved 30 January 2024 – via Twitter.

[4] Foust, Jeff (17 July 2024). "NASA cancels VIPER lunar rover". SpaceNews. Retrieved 28 July 2024. NASA said Griffin was now expected to be ready for the mission no earlier than September 2025.

[5] "Spacefarer & CubeRover Joint Lunar Rover Demonstration on Griffin-1". Astrobotic (Press release). 8 April 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.

[Baikonur_Cosmodrome-6] "Космодром Байконур" [Baikonur Cosmodrome]. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2024.

[7] "Electron/Curie - Aspera". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 14 May 2025.

[8] Jones, Andrew (24 March 2023). "China loses UAE as partner for Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 30 March 2023.

[sn-20220919-9] Jones, Andrew (19 September 2022). "UAE rover to fly on China's Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 19 September 2022.

[10] "Falcon 9 Block 5 - SpaceX CRS-35". Next Spaceflight. 17 January 2024. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024.

[sn-20220406-11] Werner, Debra (6 April 2022). "War in Ukraine underscores need for missile defense upgrade". SpaceNews. Retrieved 11 April 2022. Because of that funding, we will be able to launch that Tranche One Tracking Layer starting in May of 2025.

[gcw-20220321-12] Edwards, Jane (21 March 2022). "SDA Solicits Proposals for Tranche 1 Tracking Layer Prototyping Effort". GovCon Wire. Retrieved 11 April 2022. SDA said it expects the T1 Tracking Layer's first plane to launch no later than April 30, 2025, and the subsequent planes to follow on one-month intervals.

[eumetsat-planned-13] "Planned launches". EUMETSAT. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.

[as-20221129-14] "Arianespace supporting the European Union's Copernicus programme with Vega C". Arianespace (Press release). 29 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.

[15] Foust, Jeff (20 May 2020). "NASA renames WFIRST space telescope after pioneering woman astronomer". SpaceNews. Retrieved 20 May 2020.

[nasa-20220719-16] "NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Roman Space Telescope". NASA (Press release). 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

[17] "Firefly Aerospace Awarded NASA Contract to Launch NOAA's QuickSounder Spacecraft". Firefly Aerospace (Press release). 25 September 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.

[18] "EUMETSAT to exploit ESA-developed launchers and flight operations software". EUMETSAT. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.

[19] Krebs, Gunter (10 September 2022). "MTG-I 1, 2, 3, 4 (Meteosat 12, 14, 15, 17)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

[2024USSF-20] "Space Systems Command Issues Launch Task Orders for FY22 NSS Missions" (PDF). Space Systems Command (Press release). 26 May 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2022.

[21] Erwin, Sandra (22 February 2022). "U.S. and international partners to share launch cost of new communications satellite". SpaceNews. Retrieved 23 February 2022.

[22] Erwin, Sandra (9 April 2023). "Northrop Grumman developing military communications satellite for 2025 launch". SpaceNews. Retrieved 10 April 2023.

[23] Pinedo, Emma (20 October 2023). "Spain's PLD Space expects first orbital launch in Q1 2026 from French Guiana". Reuters. Retrieved 5 December 2023.

[24] "HESTO Selects Three 2025 Pathfinder Project Instruments". 11 July 2025. Retrieved 30 January 2026.

[25] "HESTO Selects Three 2025 Pathfinder Project Instruments". 11 July 2025. Retrieved 30 January 2026.

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January	CSG-3 Starlink G6-88 (29 satellites) Starlink G6-96 (29 satellites) Twilight (Pandora, SPARCS, BlackCAT, etc.) PSLV-C62 (EOS-N1, KID, etc.)† Starlink G6-97 (29 satellites) Yaogan-50 01 SatNet LEO Group 18 (9 satellites) Starlink G6-98 (29 satellites) Alsat-3A Ceres-1S Y7 (Tianqi 37, 38, 39, 40) Shijian-32† Ceres-2† NROL-105 Starlink G6-100 (29 satellites) SatNet LEO Group 19 (9 satellites) Starlink G17-30 (25 satellites) "The Cosmos Will See You Now" (2 Open Cosmos satellites) Starlink G17-20 (25 satellites) GPS-III 09 Ellison Onizuka Starlink G17-19 (25 satellites) Neonsat-1A Starlink G6-101 (29 satellites) Alsat-3B
February	Starlink G17-32 (25 satellites) Kosmos 2600-2608 Chinese reusable experimental spacecraft Starlink G17-33 (25 satellites) Starlink G17-34 (25 satellites) Jielong 3 (PRSC-EO2, 6 satellites) Elektro-L №5 USSF-87 (GSSAP-7 & 8) Amazon Leo LE-01 (32 satellites) Crew-12 Starlink G17-13 (24 satellites) Starlink G6-103 (29 satellites)
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).