NASA launch schedule
Launches where NASA itself operates the rocket. Most NASA science and crew missions actually fly on commercial vehicles, so the next NASA payload and the next NASA-operated launch are often different things.
Live dataUpdated on October 7, 2026
NASA-operated launches
This list is filtered by launch vehicle, which for NASA means the Space Launch System. If it is empty, no SLS flight has a date in the feed right now.
No launch is scheduled for today in the feed.
Feed read at Oct 16, 2026, 1:22 AM · All times in UTC.
Source: The Space Devs — Launch Library 2 (API de lançamentos)
All upcoming launches, any operator
| When | Rocket | Mission | Status | T-0 precision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026, 12:01 AM | Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-481 | Launch in Flight | Second |
| Oct 19, 2026, 10:30 AM | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare) | Go for Launch | Minute |
| Oct 19, 2026, 7:41 PM | H3-24 | Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) | Go for Launch | Second |
| Oct 20, 2026, 10:14 PM | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-15 | Go for Launch | Minute |
| Oct 21, 2026, 3:35 AM | Ceres-1S | Unknown Payload | Go for Launch | Hour |
| Oct 21, 2026, 5:00 AM | Electron | We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360) | To Be Confirmed | Hour |
| Oct 22, 2026, 2:00 AM | Long March 8A | Unknown Payload | To Be Confirmed | Hour |
| Oct 23, 2026, 6:00 PM | Long March 4B | Unknown Payload | To Be Confirmed | Hour |
| Oct 24, 2026, 5:29 AM | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-16 | Go for Launch | Minute |
| Oct 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | Vulcan VC6L | Amazon Leo (LV-01) | To Be Determined | Day |
| Oct 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1L (NVS-03) | To Be Determined | Month |
| Oct 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | Long March 12A | Flight 2 | To Be Determined | Month |
| Oct 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | SSLV | AayulSAT-1A & others | To Be Determined | Month |
| Nov 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | Electron | The Sea God Surveys (iQPS Launch 9) | To Be Determined | Day |
| Nov 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | Electron | The Mountain God Rises (iQPS Launch 10) | To Be Determined | Day |
| Nov 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-04) | To Be Determined | Day |
| Nov 24, 2026, 5:03 AM | Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-36 (97P) | To Be Confirmed | Minute |
| Nov 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-25 | To Be Determined | Month |
| Nov 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1 | To Be Determined | Month |
| Nov 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | PSLV-XL | TDS-01 | To Be Determined | Month |
Upcoming launches in the feed: 476 · Feed read at Oct 16, 2026, 1:22 AM · All times in UTC.
Source: The Space Devs — Launch Library 2 (API de lançamentos)
Why NASA missions appear under other names
Since the Space Shuttle retired in 2011, NASA has bought launch services rather than running most of its own rockets. Crew flights to the ISS go up on a SpaceX Falcon 9, science missions on Falcon Heavy, Atlas V, Vulcan or Electron. In the feed those appear under the launch provider, not under NASA, so a mission like a Mars orbiter or a crew rotation shows as a commercial launch with a NASA payload. The only vehicle NASA operates itself today is the Space Launch System, for Artemis.
Source: The Space Devs — Launch Library 2 (API de lançamentos)
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Launch window
The span of time in which a rocket can lift off and still reach its planned orbit or destination. For a trip to another planet that window can last only a few weeks and only returns at the next favourable alignment, so missing it costs months or years of waiting.
Astronomical unit
The solar system’s reference distance, fixed at exactly 149,597,870,700 metres since 2012, close to the average Earth–Sun distance. It saves writing every planet’s orbit in kilometres with ten digits.
Standard definition by IAU — International Astronomical Union · Astronomical unit
Exoplanet
A planet orbiting a star other than the Sun. Most were found indirectly, by the star’s faint dimming as the planet crosses in front of it (transit) or by the gravitational wobble it causes in the star (radial velocity), not by direct image.
Standard definition by NASA Exoplanet Archive · Exoplanet
Standard uncertainty
The margin attached to a measured value, usually written in parentheses on the last digits. A constant that is "exact by definition" has zero standard uncertainty; a measured one, like the gravitational constant G, always carries some.
Standard definition by BIPM — Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (SI) · Standard uncertainty
Mole
The SI counting unit for atoms, molecules or other entities: one mole is exactly 6.02214076 × 10²³ of them, by the definition fixed in 2019. It is what ties a mass in grams to a number of particles.
Standard definition by BIPM — Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (SI) · Mole