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Apr 2026
Month
launch status: TBD
🇨🇳 Long March 10B – Demo Flight – CASC (Government) — Unknown (N/A) — Test Flight
Commercial LC-2 — Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

First test launch of CASC’s Long March 10B rocket.

Apr 2026
Month
launch status: TBD
🇰🇿 Soyuz-5 – Demo Flight – RKK Energiya (Commercial) — Suborbital (Sub) — 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, with a mass simulator on board. Details TBD.

May 2026
Month
launch status: TBD
🇰🇷 South Korean ADD Solid-Fuel SLV – 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.

May 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)

May 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

Q2 2026
Quarter 2
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

Q2 2026
Quarter 2
launch status: TBD
🇨🇳 Long March 12B – Demo Flight – CASC (Government) — Unknown (N/A) — Test Flight
Long March 12 series Pad — Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

First test launch of CASC’s Long March 12B rocket.

Q2 2026
Quarter 2
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.

Q3 2026
Quarter 3
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

H1 2026
Year Half 1
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.

H1 2026
Year Half 1
launch status: TBD
🇺🇸 Starship V3 – Flight 13 – SpaceX (Commercial) — Suborbital (Sub) — Test Flight
Orbital Launch Pad 2 — SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
SpaceX 🇺🇸 (Commercial)

13th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Second flight of Starship V3

Q3 2026
Quarter 3
launch status: TBD
🇧🇷 HANBIT-Nano – Flight 2 – Innospace (Private) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Test Flight
HANBIT Pad — Alcântara Space Center, Federative Republic of Brazil
Innospace 🇰🇷 (Private)

Second orbital launch attempt for the South Korean start-up Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle.

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.

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.

H2 2026
Year Half 2
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.

2026
Year
launch status: TBD
🇺🇸 Astra Rocket 4 – Maiden Flight – Astra Space (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Test Flight
Space Launch Complex 46 — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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