2025 is a busy year for spaceflight and exploration with countless launches, mission milestones, industry conventions and skywatching events to look forward to.
With so much going on, it's hard to keep track of everything. Never fear — keep up with the latest events in our 2025 space calendar. You can also Find out what's up in the night sky this month with our visible planets guide and skywatching forecast.
Please note: Launch dates are subject to change and will be updated throughout the year as firmer dates arise. Please DO NOT schedule travel based on a date you see here. Launch dates are collected from NASA events, ESA news, Roscosmos space launch schedule, Spaceflight Now launch schedule, Everyday Astronaut, Supercluster and others.
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June 2025
June 20, 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT): The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is expected to launch a classified payload on a Long March 3B/E heavy-lift rocket. The mission will liftoff from Launch Complex-3 (LC-2), at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC), in China. The Long March 3B/E is a medium-range rocket capable of launching payloads into a geostationary transfer orbit, and the strongest of China's CZ-3 series. The "E" variant indicates a taller payload fairing and boosters, and extended fuel tanks on the first stage.
June 19-22: The annual International Space Development Conference (ISDC) is the keynote event of the National Space Society, bringing together leading managers, engineers, scientists, educators, enthusiasts, and business people from civilian, military, commercial, entrepreneurial, and grassroots advocacy space sectors - all working toward the common goal of developing a spacefaring civilization.
June 20, 5:19 p.m. EDT (2119 GMT): SpaceX will launch a As its name suggests, Transporter 14 is the 13th mission in SpaceX's Transporter series, part of the company's SmallSat Rideshare Program to provide small satellite operators with affordable, regularly scheduled Falcon 9 rideshare missions to orbit.
June 21, 9:30 a.m. ET (1330 GMT): Blue Origin will launch its New Shepard rocket on the NS-33 mission — carrying a private crew of six passengers on a suborbital flight. This will be New Shepard's fifth launch of 2025, and its 13th overall crewed flight.
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Booster and capsule return: West Texas
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Read more: Blue Origin reveals passengers for 13th space tourism launch
June 22, 1:47 a.m. ET (0547 GMT): A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO), from Launch Complex-40, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida. SpaceX's megaconstellation of LEO Starlink satellites provide low-cost internet to locations around the globe, with nearly seven thousand currently in the orbital network.
NET June 23, 10:56 a.m. EDT (1456 GMT): United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch an Atlas V 551 rocket to deliver the second batch of Project Kuiper megaconstellation internet satellites to low-Earth orbit. Liftoff for the KA-02 mission will take place from ULA's Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41), at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida.
June 25, 1:32 a.m. ET (0532 GMT): A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO), from Launch Complex-40, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida. SpaceX's megaconstellation of LEO Starlink satellites provide low-cost internet to locations around the globe, with nearly seven thousand currently in the orbital network.
June: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch a H-IIA 202 rocket carrying the GOSAT-GW satellite. The rocket will launch from Yoshinobu Launch Complex-1 (LP-1), at the Tenegashima Space Center (TSC), in Japan. GOSAT-GW (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Greenhouse gases and Water cycle) will monitor components such as carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere to measure climate change.
June: Rocket Lab will launch an Electron rocket from the company's Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. The Symphony In The Stars mission will launch the first of two spacecraft for an undisclosed commercial customer. The satellite will be delivered to a circular orbit at an altitude of 400 miles (650 kilometers).
June: SpaceX will launch the fourth crewed mission for Houston-based company Axiom Space. Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will be joined by Shubhanshu Shukla of India, the of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Sławosz Uznański, from Poland, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. The quartet will launch to the ISS on a mission to conduct scientific research, demonstrate technology and the continued commercialization of space.
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Read more: Meet the crew for Axiom Space's Ax-4 mission to the ISS
July 2025
July: SpaceX will launch the tenth flight of its Starship Super Heavy rocket. The mission will liftoff from SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas.
July 3: The Russian space agency (Roscosmos) will launch the 92nd Progress cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Progress 92 (92P) will carry fresh food and supplies for the ISS crew, and is expected to remain docked for several months.
July 10: The July full moon is also known as the Buck Moon or the Thunder Moon, the former because it coincides with the time of year when male deer antlers are in full growth and the latter because it is also when thunderstorms are common in many parts of the world. The moon will officially reach full illumination at 4:37 p.m. EDT (2137 GMT) on July 10, but still appears relatively full for a few days around the peak.
NET late July: Crew-11 is the 11th crew rotation mission of SpaceX's human space launch to the space station through NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission includes NASA astronauts Commander Zena Cardman and Pilot Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Mission Specialist Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Oleg Platonov.
Booster return: Landing Zone-1, Cape Canaveral, FL
NET Summer 2025: Rocket Lab will launch a HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) rocket from the company's Launch Complex 2, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, in Virginia. The payload, DART AE, is a 3D-printed hypersonic drone developed under the Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing (HyCAT) program at the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).
NET Summer 2025: Northrup Grumman will launch the EWS OD-1 payload for the United States Space Force. The Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System (EWS) Operational Demonstration-1 (OD-1) is a weather satellite made by General Atomics launching into low-Earth obit (LEO) on a Minotaur IV rocket from Space Launch Complex-8 (SLC-8) at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), in California.
NET Summer 2025: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA's TRACERS mission, carrying a pair of synchronized spacecraft to orbit. TRACERS will study magnetic reconnection Earth’s atmosphere caused by interaction with passing solar activity, and help researchers better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth.
NET July: United Launch Alliance (ULA)'s Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly its first of more than two dozen U.S. Space Force missions allocated under a national security space launch contract. USSF-106 is expected to launch sometime in the second quarter of 2025.
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Read more: Powerful new Vulcan Centaur rocket gearing up for 1st Space Force mission
NET Summer 2025: United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch Sierra Space's Dream Chaser space plane aboard a Vulcan Centaur rocket. The mission will launch from Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41), at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida. the first-ever winged commercial spaceplane, to the International Space Station.
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Read more: ULA delays Dream Chaser space plane launch to certify Vulcan Centaur rocket for US military missions
August 2025
NET August: International Space Station (ISS) residents to launched aboard the SpaceX Crew-10 mission will return to Earth aboard their Crew Dragon Endurance. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will splash down off the coast of California to wrap up a four-month rotation on orbit.
Aug. 9: August's full moon, the Sturgeon moon, will rise at 3:55 a.m. ET (0855 GMT). The timing of the full moon depends on one's time zone because lunar phases are measured according to the longitudinal position of the moon relative to the Earth against the sky; one's latitude doesn't alter the timing as it would with moonrise and moonset.
September 2025
October 2025
November 2025
NET November: NASA astronaut Chris Williams will launch on his first mission to the International Space Station, serving as a flight engineer and Expedition 74 crew member.
Williams will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft in November, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The trio will spend approximately eight months aboard the orbiting laboratory.
December 2025
NET Dec: Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim return to Earth aboard their Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft. They are scheduled to touchdown in Kazakhstan, wrapping up a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station.
2025: Eris is the first Australian-designed and built rocket aiming for orbit. It stands at 82 feet (25 meters) tall and can deliver a payload of up to 474 pounds (215 kilograms) to a 310-mile-altitude (500 kilometers) sun-synchronous orbit. Eris consists of three stages and uses hybrid propulsion.
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Read more: The 1st Australian rocket to launch from Australian soil could reach orbit this month
2026
NET Feb. 2026: Artemis 2 is the second scheduled flight of the Artemis program and the first crewed Artemis mission. Three astronauts from NASA and one from the Canadian Space Agency will use on a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket aboard the Orion spacecraft on the lunar flyby mission.
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NASA commander Reid Wiseman, NASA pilot Victor Glover, NASA mission specialist Christina Koch and CSA mission specialist Jeremy Hansen will fly around the moon on a roughly 10-day-long mission.
Q1 2026: Rocket Lab will launch an Electron rocket with NASA's Aspera smallsat satellite. Aspera will examine hot gas in the space between galaxies, called the intergalactic medium. The mission will study the inflow and outflow of gas from galaxies, a process thought to contribute to star formation.
NET May 2026: California-based startup Vast Space plans to loft its Haven-1 outpost aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than May 2026. Haven-1 — which will eventually be incorporated as a module into a larger space station, and will be followed in quick succession by Vast-1, a four-person jaunt to the new station that could last up to 30 days. Vast-1 will also launch atop a Falcon 9, and its astronauts will ride on a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
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Read more: SpaceX and Vast want ideas for science experiments on Dragon spacecraft and Haven-1 space station
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