List of spaceflight launches in July–September 2026

This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the third quarter of the year 2026.

For all other spaceflight activities, see 2026 in spaceflight. For launches during the rest of 2026, see List of spaceflight launches in January–March 2026, List of spaceflight launches in April–June 2026, and List of spaceflight launches in October–December 2026.

Orbital launches

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Date and time (UTC)	Rocket		Flight number	Launch site		LSP
		Payload (⚀ = CubeSat)	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
		Remarks
July
14 July [1]	Soyuz-2.1a			Baikonur Site 31/6		Roscosmos
		Soyuz MS-29	Roscosmos	Low Earth (ISS)	Expedition 74/75
July (TBD)[4]	Falcon Heavy			Kennedy LC-39A		SpaceX
		Griffin-I	Astrobotic	TLI to lunar surface	Lunar lander
		FLIP	Astrolab	TLI to lunar surface	Lunar rover
		⚀ CubeRover[5]	Astrobotic	TLI to lunar surface	Lunar rover
		Griffin Mission 1. Part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Landing site is expected to be near the lunar south pole at Nobile Crater.[2] Falcon Heavy core stage (B1091) could possibly feature the first Falcon Heavy center core recovery attempt since STP-2.[3]
July (TBD)[7]	Vega-C			Kourou ELV		Arianespace
		ClearSpace-1	ClearSpace SA (EPFL)	Low Earth	Space debris removal
		ClearSpace-1 will capture and de-orbit the PROBA-1 satellite.[6]
July (TBD)[8]	Soyuz-2.1a			Baikonur Site 31/6		Roscosmos
		Progress MS-35 / 95P	Roscosmos	Low Earth (ISS)	ISS logistics
← Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec → August
15 August[9]	Electron			Mahia LC-1		Rocket Lab
		Aspera	NASA	Low Earth	Astronomy
August (TBD)[11]	Long March 5			Wenchang LC-1		CASC
		Chang'e 7 orbiter	CNSA	Selenocentric	Lunar orbiter
		Chang'e 7 relay satellite	CNSA	Selenocentric	Communications
		Chang'e 7 lander	CNSA	Selenocentric to lunar surface	Lunar lander
		Chang'e 7 rover	CNSA	Selenocentric to lunar surface	Lunar rover
		Chang'e 7 hopper	CNSA	Selenocentric to lunar surface	Lunar hopper
		The Rashid 2 rover was removed from this mission due to ITAR concerns. A new 6 Meter Daimeter Fairing will be used in this mission.[10]
August (TBD)[12][13]	Falcon 9 Block 5			Vandenberg SLC-4E		SpaceX
		Transport Layer Tranche 2 × 7	SDA	Low Earth	Missile tracking
		First of third launches for the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer Tranche 2 (Tranche 2 Transport Layer A Mission).
← Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec → September
September (TBD)[12][13]	Vulcan Centaur			Vandenberg SLC-3E		ULA
		Transport Layer Tranche 2 × 7	SDA	Low Earth	Missile tracking
		Second of three launches for the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer Tranche 2 (T2TR-B Mission).
September (TBD)[14][15]	Vega-C			Kourou ELV		Arianespace
		Sentinel-3C	EUMETSAT	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation
		Third Sentinel-3 satellite.
← Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec → To be determined Q3
Q3 (TBD)[16]	Atlas V N22			Cape Canaveral SLC-41		ULA
		Boeing Starliner-1 (PCM-1)	Boeing / NASA	Low Earth (ISS)	TBA
		First operational Starliner mission, as part of the Commercial Crew Program.
Q3 (TBD)[14]	Ariane 64[17]			Kourou ELA-4		Arianespace
		MTG-I2[18]	EUMETSAT	Geosynchronous	Meteorology
← Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec →
For launches after 30 September, see List of spaceflight launches in October–December 2026

Suborbital flights

Date and time (UTC)	Rocket		Flight number	Launch site		LSP
		Payload (⚀ = CubeSat)	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
		Remarks
23 August[19]	Black Brant IX			Reagan Test Site		NASA
		Evex-2	Goddard Space Flight Center	Suborbital	Geospace science
		First of two launches
23 August[19]	Black Brant IX			Reagan Test Site		NASA
		Evex-2	Goddard Space Flight Center	Suborbital	Geospace science
		Second of two launches

Reference

1. "Next year's Russian manned missions to ISS due in March, September — source". TASS. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
2. "NASA's Artemis Rover to Land Near Nobile Region of Moon's South Pole". NASA (Press release). 20 September 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
3. Edwards, Jon [@edwards345] (21 July 2023). "Next few Heavy missions all require we expend the center core, but should have at least one mission next year where we recover it (Astrobotic Griffin)" (Tweet). Retrieved 30 January 2024 – via Twitter.
4. Foust, Jeff (17 July 2024). "NASA cancels VIPER lunar rover". SpaceNews. Retrieved 28 July 2024. NASA said Griffin was now expected to be ready for the mission no earlier than September 2025.
5. "Spacefarer & CubeRover Joint Lunar Rover Demonstration on Griffin-1". Astrobotic (Press release). 8 April 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
6. Werner, Debra (24 April 2024). "Major changes approved for ClearSpace-1 mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
7. Rainbow, Jason (9 May 2023). "ClearSpace books Vega C for 2026 de-orbit mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
8. "Космодром Байконур" [Baikonur Cosmodrome]. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
9. "Electron/Curie - Aspera". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
10. Jones, Andrew (24 March 2023). "China loses UAE as partner for Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
11. Jones, Andrew (19 September 2022). "UAE rover to fly on China's Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
12. Werner, Debra (6 April 2022). "War in Ukraine underscores need for missile defense upgrade". SpaceNews. Retrieved 11 April 2022. Because of that funding, we will be able to launch that Tranche One Tracking Layer starting in May of 2025.
13. Edwards, Jane (21 March 2022). "SDA Solicits Proposals for Tranche 1 Tracking Layer Prototyping Effort". GovCon Wire. Retrieved 11 April 2022. SDA said it expects the T1 Tracking Layer's first plane to launch no later than April 30, 2025, and the subsequent planes to follow on one-month intervals.
14. "Planned launches". EUMETSAT. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
15. "Arianespace supporting the European Union's Copernicus programme with Vega C". Arianespace (Press release). 29 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
16. Foust, Jeff (30 July 2024). "NASA proceeding with August launch of Crew-9". SpaceNews. Retrieved 31 July 2024. Stich said that the first operational Starliner mission, called Starliner-1, is no longer scheduled to launch in February 2025 as previously planned. The Crew-10 mission will instead launch then [...] Starliner-1 has been rescheduled for August 2025, but he added that the mission will be "double booked" with Crew-11, presumably to protect for any additional delays with Starliner.
17. "EUMETSAT to exploit ESA-developed launchers and flight operations software". EUMETSAT. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
18. Krebs, Gunter (10 September 2022). "MTG-I 1, 2, 3, 4 (Meteosat 12, 14, 15, 17)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
19. "NASA Sounding Rockets BlueBook" (PDF). Wallops Flight Facility. NASA. 23 November 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.

External links

• Bergin, Chris. "NASASpaceFlight.com".
• Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now".
• Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog (SATCAT)". CelesTrak.
• Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches".
• Kyle, Ed. "Space Launch Report". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
• McDowell, Jonathan. "GCAT Orbital Launch Log".
• Pietrobon, Steven. "Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive".
• Wade, Mark. "Encyclopedia Astronautica".
• Webb, Brian. "Southwest Space Archive".
• Zak, Anatoly. "Russian Space Web".
• "ISS Calendar". Spaceflight 101.
• "NSSDCA Master Catalog". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
• "Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).
• "Rocket Launch Manifest". Next Spaceflight.
• "Space Launch Plans". Novosti Kosmonavtiki.
• "Space Satellite Tracking". N2YO.

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