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14 Oct 2025
16:30 Minute
launch status: Go
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ Electron – Owl New World (StriX Launch 7) – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Synspective πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ (Private)

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

04 Nov 2025
21:03 Minute
launch status: Go
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡« Ariane 62 – Sentinel-1D – Arianespace (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Ariane Launch Area 4 — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
European Space Agency πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί (Multinational)

Sentinel-1D carries an advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface as part of the Sentinel-1 constellation.

16 Nov 2025
Day
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Falcon 9 Block 5 – Sentinel-6B – SpaceX (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science
Space Launch Complex 4E — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί (Multinational) , European Space Agency πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί (Multinational) , National Aeronautics and Space Administration πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (Government) , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (Government)

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (launched November 2020) and Sentinel-6B make up the Sentinel-6 mission, also known as Jason Continuity of Service (Jason-CS), which is a partnership between NASA, NOAA, ESA, and EUMETSAT. This mission continues the long-term global sea surface height data record begun by first Jason satellites in 1992.

26 Nov 2025
15:54 Minute
launch status: Go
πŸ‡°πŸ‡· KSLV-2 Nuri – CAS500-3 – Korea Aerospace Research Institute (Government) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
LC-2 — Naro Space Center, South Korea

CAS500-3 is a South Korean Earth observation satellites to be used by the Ministry of Science and ICT for space technology verification and space science research.

Nov 2025
Month
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ Electron – iQPS Launch 5 – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

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

Nov 2025
Month
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Falcon 9 Block 5 – KOMPSAT-7A – SpaceX (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Korea Aerospace Research Institute πŸ‡°πŸ‡· (Government)

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

Nov 2025
Month
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡« Vega-C – KOMPSAT-7 – Arianespace (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

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

15 Dec 2025
11:52 Minute
launch status: TBC
πŸ‡°πŸ‡Ώ 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.

Q4 2025
Quarter 4
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί 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
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ 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 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (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
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ Electron – BlackSky Gen-3 3 – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
BlackSky πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (Private)

BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ 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 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (Private)

BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ 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 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (Private)

BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ Electron – iQPS Launch 6 – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

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

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ 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 πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ (Private)

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ Electron – StriX Launch 9 – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Synspective πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ (Private)

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ 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
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ 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.

2025
Year
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Unknown Launch Vehicle – Owlet-01 – Unknown (Unknown) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science
Unknown Pad — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Telescope satellite for Scout Space, a startup specializing in space domain awareness through in-space observation.

Feb 2026
Month
launch status: TBD
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Firefly Alpha – QuickSounder – Firefly Aerospace (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science
Space Launch Complex 2W — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (Government)

QuickSounder is the first satellite mission of the Near Earth Orbit Network (NEON) program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which aims to replace the current Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) series of polar orbit weather satellites. This pathfinder mission will demonstrate NOAA's ability to launch a small satellite within 3 years, flying a refurbished Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) instrument to polar orbit.