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13 Oct 2025
23:15 Minute

launch status: Go

🇺🇸 Starship – Flight 11 – SpaceX (Commercial) — Suborbital (Sub) — Test Flight

Orbital Launch Pad 1 — SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

SpaceX 🇺🇸 (Commercial)

11th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

20 Dec 2025
Day

launch status: TBD

🇰🇿 Soyuz-5 – Demo Flight – RKK Energiya (Commercial) — Unknown (N/A) — Test Flight

45/1 (no Wikipedia article) — Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

RKK Energiya 🇷🇺 (Commercial) , Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) 🇷🇺 (Government)

Demonstration Flight for Russia's new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle. Details TBD.

Dec 2025
Month

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 2025
Quarter 4

launch status: TBD

🇯🇵 H3-30 – H3-30 Test Flight – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Test Flight

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 — Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Test flight of the H3-30 variant of the H3 launch vehicle with 3 LE-9 engines in the first stage and no SRBs. The flight will carry a dummy main payload (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 5, VEP-5) and several hitchhiking small satellites:

* PETREL

* STARS-X

* BRO-19

* VERTECS

* HORN-L/R

Q4 2025
Quarter 4

launch status: TBD

🇬🇧 RFA One – Maiden Flight – Rocket Factory Augsburg (Private) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Test Flight

Launch Pad Fredo — SaxaVord Spaceport

Rocket Factory Augsburg 🇩🇪 (Private)

First flight of the RFA One launch vehicle. Will carry 7 satellites for various companies and organizations coordinated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

* AllBertEinStein

* ARTICA

* Curium Two

* ERMINAZ

* PCIOD

* Separation Ring Mission

* SpaceDREAM

Q4 2025
Quarter 4

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.

'2025-12-31T00:00:00Z'
'Year Half 2' Year Half 2

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.

2025
Year

launch status: TBD

🇮🇳 Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster – TV-D2 – ISRO (Government) — Suborbital (Sub) — Test Flight

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

Indian Space Research Organization 🇮🇳 (Government)

The second inflight abort test of the Gaganyaan program.

2025
Year

launch status: TBD

🇬🇧 Orbex Prime – Maiden Flight – Orbex (Commercial) — Unknown (N/A) — Test Flight

Unknown Pad — SaxaVord Spaceport

Orbex 🇬🇧 (Commercial)

Maiden flight of Orbex's Prime rocket from Sutherland Spaceport. This flights marks the first vertical orbital launch attempt from the United Kingdom, and the first orbital launch attempt from Scotland.

2025
Year

launch status: TBD

🇬🇧 Skyrora XL – Maiden flight – Skyrora (Private) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Test Flight

Launch Pad Fredo — SaxaVord Spaceport

Skyrora 🇬🇧 (Private)

First flight of the Skyrora XL launch vehicle

2025
Year

launch status: TBD

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

Orbital Launch Pad — Andøya Spaceport

Second test flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle, carrying several cubesats as part of the European Space Agency's “Boost!” program.