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Vehicle: Ariane 62 | Ariane 64 | Ariane 64 Block 2 | Electron | Epsilon S | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Falcon Heavy | Firefly Alpha Block 2 | Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster | Gravity-2 | GSLV Mk. II | H3-22 | H3-24 | Hyperbola-3 | Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III) | Long March 10A | Long March 12A | Long March 2F/G | Mir | Miura 5 | Nebula-1 | New Glenn | Orbex Prime | PSLV XL | RFA One | Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz 2.1b | Spectrum | SSLV | Starship V3 | Terran R | Themis Demonstrator | Unknown Launch Vehicle | Vega-C | Vulcan | Vulcan VC4L | Vulcan VC6L

Orbit: Geostationary Orbit | Geostationary Transfer Orbit | Low Earth Orbit | Lunar Orbit | Mars Orbit | Medium Earth Orbit | Polar Orbit | Suborbital | Sun-Synchronous Orbit | Unknown

Oct 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.

Nov 2026
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 2026
Quarter 4
launch status: TBD
🇺🇸 Starship V3 – Flight 15 – SpaceX (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Test Flight
Orbital Launch Pad 2 — SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
SpaceX 🇺🇸 (Commercial)

15th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle and 4th flight of Starship V3.

Q4 2026
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.

Q4 2026
Quarter 4
launch status: TBD
🇺🇸 Vulcan VC4L – Dream Chaser CRS 2 Flight 1 – ULA (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Test Flight
Space Launch Complex 41 — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 🇺🇸 (Government) , Sierra Nevada Corporation 🇺🇸 (Commercial)

First flight of the Dream Chaser Spaceplane, on a free-flying mission in Low Earth Orbit.

2026
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.

2026
Year
launch status: TBD
🇨🇳 Gravity-2 – Demo Flight – Orienspace Technology (Commercial) — Unknown (N/A) — Test Flight
Unknown launch location (no Wikipedia article) — Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

First test launch of OrienSpace’s Gravity-2 rocket.

2026
Year
launch status: TBD
🇨🇳 Hyperbola-3 – Demo Flight – i-Space (Commercial) — Unknown (N/A) — Test Flight
Commercial LC-2 — Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

First test launch of i-Space’s Hyperbola-3 rocket.

2026
Year
launch status: TBD
🇨🇳 Long March 10A – Demo Flight – CASC (Government) — Unknown (N/A) — Test Flight
301 — Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

First test launch of CASC/CALT’s Long March 10A rocket. Payload is expected to be a prototype of the Low Earth Orbit mission version of the Mengzhou crew spacecraft.

2026
Year
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.

2026
Year
launch status: TBD
🇬🇫 Miura 5 – Maiden Flight – Payload Aerospace (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Test Flight
Diamant Launch Area (no Wikipedia article) — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Payload Aerospace S.L. 🇪🇸 (Commercial)

First flight of the Miura 5 launch vehicle.

2026
Year
launch status: TBD
🇨🇳 Nebula-1 – Demo Flight – Deep Blue Aerospace (Commercial) — Suborbital (Sub) — Test Flight
Land Launch Pad 1 (no Wikipedia article) — Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

First test launch of Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1 rocket.

The test flight profile is reported to be sub-orbital.

2026
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.

2026
Year
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