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01 Dec 2025
17:21 Minute
launch status: Go
🇬🇫 Vega-C – KOMPSAT-7 – Arianespace (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Korea Aerospace Research Institute 🇰🇷 (Government)

KOMPSAT-7 is the follow-up model of KOMPSAT-3A whose mission is to provide high-resolution satellite images to satisfy South-Korea's governmental and institutional needs.

15 Dec 2025
11:52 Minute
launch status: TBC
🇰🇿 Proton-M Blok DM-03 – Elektro-L No.5 – Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (Government) — Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO) — Earth Science
81/24 (81P) (no Wikipedia article) — Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Elektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture real-time images of clouds and the Earth's underlying surface, heliogeophysical measurements, collection and translating hydrometeorological and service data.

Dec 2025
Month
launch status: TBD
🇮🇳 PSLV – EOS-N1 and othersISRO (Government) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad — Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Small Earth observation satellite from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), details TBD.

This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads.

Q4 2025
Quarter 4
launch status: TBD
🇷🇺 Soyuz 2.1a – Obzor-R No.1ROSCOSMOS (Government) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite designed by TsSKB-Progress.

In 2012, the development of the Arkon-2M radar satellite was stopped and instead the development of the Obzor-R was initiated.

The satellite features the BRLK X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar as the imaging instrument with a ground resolution of 500 m.

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
🇺🇸 Electron – 6x HawkEye 360 – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C) (no Wikipedia article) — Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
HawkEye 360 🇺🇸 (Private)

HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission.

The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
🇳🇿 Electron – BlackSky Gen-3 4 – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
BlackSky 🇺🇸 (Private)

BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
🇳🇿 Electron – BlackSky Gen-3 5 – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
BlackSky 🇺🇸 (Private)

BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
🇺🇸 Falcon 9 Block 5 – CAS500-2 & CAS500-4 – SpaceX (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Space Launch Complex 4E — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

CAS500-2 is the second of two similar South Korean Earth observation satellites. These spacecraft feature the AEISS-C imaging system with a ground resolution of 0.5 m in panchromatic mode and 2 m in color mode.

CAS500-4 is a wide area Earth-observation satellite with a wide-area electro-optical camera (swath width of 120 km and resolution of 5 m) to be mainly used by the Rural Development Administration and the Korea Forest Service for observing crops, agricultural water resources and forest resources.

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
🇺🇸 Falcon 9 Block 5 – CSG-3 – SpaceX (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Space Launch Complex 4E — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

CSG-3 is an Earth observation satellite for the Italian Space Agency, part of a reconnaissance constellation using synthetic aperture radars operating in the X-band.

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
🇨🇳 Long March 3B/E – Fengyun-4CCASC (Government) — Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

China's geostationary meteorological satellite program FY-4 (Feng Yun 4) is the second generation of chinese geostationary meteorological satellites.

Q1 2026
Quarter 1
launch status: TBD
🇳🇿 Electron – StriX Launch 8 – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Synspective 🇯🇵 (Private)

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Q1 2026
Quarter 1
launch status: TBD
🇮🇳 GSLV Mk. II – GISAT-1A (EOS-05)ISRO (Government) — Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) — Earth Science
Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad — Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
Indian Space Research Organization 🇮🇳 (Government)

GISAT-1A (GEO Imaging Satellite) is an Indian earth observing satellite operating from geostationary orbit to facilitate continuous observation of Indian sub-continent, quick monitoring of natural hazards and disaster.

Q1 2026
Quarter 1
launch status: TBD
🇮🇳 PSLV XL – EOS-10 (Oceansat-3A)ISRO (Government) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad — Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Oceansat-3A is a part of ISRO's Oceansat program. Its main purpose is ocean observation, which includes gathering ocean color data, sea surface temperature measurements and wind vector data.

Q1 2026
Quarter 1
launch status: TBD
🇷🇺 Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M – AIST-2T 01 & 02ROSCOSMOS (Government) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Cosmodrome Site 1S — Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation

A pair of Russian optical Earth observation satellites built by the Progress Rocket Space Centre for obtaining stereo images of the Earth's surface, with maximum resolution of 1.2 m in panchromatic mode and a swath width of 32 km.

Q1 2026
Quarter 1
launch status: TBD
🇬🇫 Vega-C – Korean Multi-purpose Satellite 6 (KOMPSAT-6) – Arianespace (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Korea Aerospace Research Institute 🇰🇷 (Government)

Sixth South Korean Earth observation satellite of the KOMPSAT series. It is equipped with a synthetic aperture radar with a ground resolution between 0.5 and 20 meters.

Q2 2026
Quarter 2
launch status: TBD
🇬🇫 Ariane 62 – Metop-SG B1 – Arianespace (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Ariane Launch Area 4 — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Second of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.