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Aug 2026
Month

launch status: TBD

🇨🇳 Long March 12A – Flight 2 – CASC (Government) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Test Flight

Long March 12 series Pad — Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Second test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket. Payload identities are TBD.

Aug 2026
Month

launch status: TBD

🇰🇷 Mir – Demo Flight – Agency for Defense Development (Government) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Test Flight

ADD Offshore launch platform (no Wikipedia article) — Sea Launch

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.

Aug 2026
Month

launch status: TBD

🇳🇴 Spectrum – Onward and Upward – Isar Aerospace (Private) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Test Flight

Orbital Launch Pad — Andøya Spaceport

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)

Aug 2026
Month

launch status: TBD

🇨🇳 Zhuque-3 – Flight 2 – LandSpace (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Test Flight

Launch Area 96B — Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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

Q3 2026
Quarter 3

launch status: TBD

🇺🇸 Starship V3 – Flight 14 – SpaceX (Commercial) — Unknown (N/A) — Test Flight

Orbital Launch Pad 2 — SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3.

Q3 2026
Quarter 3

launch status: TBD

🇸🇪 Themis Demonstrator – T1H-1 – European Space Agency (Multinational) — Suborbital (Sub) — Test Flight

Launch Complex 3B — Esrange Space Center

European Space Agency 🇪🇺 (Multinational)

First low-altitude hop test of a Themis demonstrator, with a targeted altitude up to 100 m.

Q4 2026
Quarter 4

launch status: TBD

🇮🇳 Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III) – Gaganyaan-1 – ISRO (Government) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Test Flight

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad — Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

First uncrewed orbital test flight of the Gaganyaan capsule.

Q4 2026
Quarter 4

launch status: TBD

🇺🇸 Neutron – Maiden Flight – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Unknown (N/A) — Test Flight

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 3 (Launch Area 0 D) (no Wikipedia article) — Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Rocket Lab 🇺🇸 (Commercial)

Maiden flight of the Neutron launch vehicle.

2026
Year

launch status: TBD

🇺🇸 Astra Rocket 4 – Maiden Flight – Astra Space (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Test Flight

Launch Complex 48 — Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

First flight of Astra Space's second generation small satellite launch vehicle.