Launch Schedule

Dec 21

2026

Optus-11

Ariane 6

launching a Ku-band communications satellite with a coverage zone encompassing Australia and New Zealand

ELA-4, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Russian Proton-M rocket is scheduled to launch an Iranian Ekvator communication satellite. It will be the first of four initially planned Proton-M launches in 2025.

Dec 08

2026

Ekvator

Proton-M

Roscosmos

TBD, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan

Oct 15

Q1 2027

IS-45

Ariane 6

Intelsat 45 is a small communications satellite that will provide Ku-band fixed-satellite services

ELA-4, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Superbird-9 is a high throughput communication satellite aiming to deliver broadcast and broadband missions in Ku band primarily over Japan and Eastern Asia, in response to...

Jan 10

JUN 2027

Superbird-9

Starship

SpaceX

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
Florida, United States

Oct 24

Blue Origin’s Powerful New Glenn Rocket to Launch Telesat’s Advanced Global LEO Satellite Constellation

Telesat LEO

New Glenn

Blue Origin

LC-36, Cape Canaveral SFS
Florida, United States

Nov 06

IS-41 & IS-44

Ariane 6

launching two communications satellites built by Thales Alenia Space for Intelsat.

ELA-4, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Mar 21

First launch of 24 Rivada Outernet communication satellites. Rivada Space Networks aims to deliver gigabit-speed internet globally, including the polar regions, bypassing the...

Rivada Outernet 1

Falcon 9

SpaceX

SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB
California, United States

Sep 17

EAGLE-1

Vega C

Eagle-1 will be Europe's first space-based quantum key distribution system, developed by ESA, the European Commission and a consortium of European companies led by SES Techcom....

ELA-1, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

Nov 04

First Amazon Leo mission on Blue Origin's New Glenn (New Glenn flight NG-4), carrying 48 Amazon Leo broadband satellites to low Earth orbit. It is the first of 24 Amazon Leo...

Amazon Leo (LN-01)

New Glenn

Blue Origin

LC-36A, Cape Canaveral SFS
Florida, United States

Rocket Lab will launch a dedicated Neutron mission for Kepler Communications from Launch Complex 3 on Wallops Island, Virginia, no earlier than 2028. Neutron will deploy...

Series: Amazon Leo

Nov 06

2028

Kepler Communications Neutron Mission

Neutron

Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab LC-3, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Virginia, United States