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17 Dec 2025
Day

launch status: TBD

🇧🇷 HANBIT-Nano – Spaceward – Innospace (Private) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Test Flight

HANBIT Pad — Alcântara Space Center, Federative Republic of Brazil

Brazilian Space Agency 🇧🇷 (Government) , Innospace 🇰🇷 (Private)

Maiden orbital launch attempt for the South Korean stratup Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle. Onboard this flight are five small satellites from the Brazilian space agency AEB, Brazilian university Universidade Federal do Maranhão and Indian startup Grahaa Space, as well as three payloads from AEB and Brazilian company Castro Leite Consultoria that will remain attached to the rocket, and an empty aluminium can from the South Korean beverage company Brewguru.

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.

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
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.

Jan 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.

Jan 2026
Month

launch status: TBD

🇺🇸 Starship V3 – Flight 12 – SpaceX (Commercial) — Suborbital (Sub) — Test Flight

Orbital Launch Pad 2 — SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

SpaceX 🇺🇸 (Commercial)

12th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Maiden Flight of Starship V3

Feb 2026
Month

launch status: TBD

🇮🇳 Vikram-I – Demo Flight – Skyroot Aerospace (Private) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Test Flight

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

First launch of Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-I launch vehicle, with several cubesats on board. Payload identities TBD.

Q1 2026
Quarter 1

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.

Q1 2026
Quarter 1

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

Q1 2026
Quarter 1

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.