List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2021

This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the second half of the year 2021, including launches planned for 2021 without a specific launch date.

For all other spaceflight activities, see 2021 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2021, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2021. For launches in 2022, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2022.

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
1 July 12:48:33 [1] [2]	Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat		ST33	Vostochny Site 1S		Arianespace / Starsem
		OneWeb × 36	OneWeb	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Operational
3 July 02:51 [3] [4]	Long March 2D		2D-Y74	Taiyuan LC-9		CASC
		Jilin-1 Kuanfu-01B	Chang Guang Satellite Technology	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		Jilin-1 Gaofen-03D 01, 02, 03	Chang Guang Satellite Technology	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		Xingshidai-10	ADA Space	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
4 July 23:28 [5]	Long March 4C		4C-Y43	Jiuquan SLS-2		CASC
		Fengyun 3E [7]	CMA	Low Earth (SSO)	Meteorology	In orbit	Operational
6 July 15:53 [8]	Long March 3C/E		3C-Y18	Xichang LC-2		CASC
		Tianlian I-05	CNSA	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
9 July 11:59 [9] [10]	Long March 6		Y6	Taiyuan LC-16		CASC
		Zhuzhou-1 (Zhongzi-02) × 5 [12]	Zhuzhou State Investment Group	Low Earth	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
19 July 00:19 [13]	Long March 2C		2C-Y49	Xichang LC-3		CASC
		Yaogan 30-10A	CAS	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	In orbit	Operational
		Yaogan 30-10B	CAS	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	In orbit	Operational
		Yaogan 30-10C	CAS	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ Tianqi-15	Guodian Gaoke	Low Earth	IoT	In orbit	Operational
		A fairing recovery system using parachutes was tested on this launch.
21 July 14:58:25 [14] [15]	Proton-M			Baikonur Site 200/39		Roscosmos
		Nauka	Roscosmos	Low Earth (ISS)	ISS assembly	In orbit	Operational
		Nauka was launched along with the European Robotic Arm. [16]
27 July [17] [18]	Long March 2C ?
		Fractional Orbital Bombardment System	PLARF	Transatmospheric Earth orbit	Hypersonic glide vehicle test	27 July	Successful
29 July 04:01 [19]	Long March 2D		2D-Y62	Jiuquan SLS-2		CASC
		Tianhui-1D	CNSA	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
29 July 06:00 [20] [21]	Electron		"It’s a Little Chile Up Here"	Mahia LC-1A		Rocket Lab
		Monolith	U.S. Space Force	Low Earth	Space weather Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		Return to flight for Electron following the May 2021 launch failure, flying the Space Force's Monolith satellite as the STP-27RM mission.
30 July 21:00 [22]	Ariane 5 ECA		VA254	Kourou ELA-3		Arianespace
		Eutelsat Quantum	Eutelsat	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		Star One D2	Star One	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
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3 August 07:39 [23] [24]	Hyperbola-1		Y5	Jiuquan LS-95B		i-Space
		Jilin-1 Mofang-01A	Chang Guang Satellite Technology	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	3 August	Launch failure
		Second failure in a row for the Hyperbola-1 launcher. Rocket failed to achieve correct orbit insertion after a malfunctioning in fairing separation. [25] Jilin-1 Mofang-01A would have been the first fourth-generation Jilin-1 satellite, with a reduced payload mass of 18 kg (40 lb). [26]
4 August 11:01 [27] [28]	Long March 6		Y7	Taiyuan LC-16		CASC
		KL-Beta A	KLEO Connect	Low Earth (Polar)	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		KL-Beta B	KLEO Connect	Low Earth (Polar)	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		Second set of "global multimedia satellites" [29] built by CAS for KLEO Connect. [30] [31]
5 August 16:30:05 [32]	Long March 3B/E		3B-Y76	Xichang LC-2		CASC
		ChinaSat 2E	China Satcom	Geosynchronous	Military communications	In orbit	Operational
10 August 22:01:05 [33]	Antares 230+			MARS LP-0A		Northrop Grumman
		Cygnus NG-16 S.S. Ellison Onizuka	NASA	Low Earth (ISS)	ISS logistics	15 December	Successful
		PIRPL [36] [37]	SDA / MDA	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		PIRPL was deployed after NG-16 undocked from the space station.
12 August 00:13 [38]	GSLV Mk II		F10 [39]	Satish Dhawan SLP		ISRO
		EOS-03 (GISAT-1)	ISRO	Geosynchronous	Earth observation	12 August	Launch failure
		Launch failed due to third stage ignition failure.
17 August 01:47:06 [40]	Vega		VV19	Kourou ELV		Arianespace
		Pléiades-Neo 4 [42]	Airbus Defence and Space	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ BRO-4	UnseenLabs	Low Earth (SSO)	SIGINT	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ LEDSAT [44]	Sapienza University of Rome	Low Earth (SSO)	Education	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ RADCUBE	ESA / C3S Hungary	Low Earth (SSO)	Space weather	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ SUNSTORM	ESA / Reaktor Space Lab	Low Earth (SSO)	Space weather	In orbit	Operational
		SSMS piggyback mission. [45]
18 August 22:32 [46] [47]	Long March 4B		4B-Y50	Taiyuan LC-9		CASC
		Tianhui-2 02A	CNSA	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		Tianhui-2 02B	CNSA	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
21 August 22:13:40 [48] [49]	Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat		ST34	Baikonur Site 31/6		Arianespace / Starsem
		OneWeb × 34	OneWeb	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Operational
24 August 11:15 [50] [51]	Long March 2C / YZ-1S		2C-Y51	Jiuquan SLS-2		CASC
		RSW-01	CAST	Low Earth (Polar)	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		RSW-02	CAST	Low Earth (Polar)	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		Undisclosed payload	DFH Satellite	Low Earth (Polar)	Communications	In orbit	Operational
24 August 15:41 [52]	Long March 3B/E		3B-Y78	Xichang LC-3		CASC
		TJS-7	SAST	Geosynchronous	SIGINT	In orbit	Operational
28 August 22:35 [53] [54]	Rocket 3.3		LV0006 [55]	Kodiak LP-3B		Astra
		STP-27AD1	U.S. Space Force	Low Earth	Flight test	28 August	Launch failure
		Third Rocket 3 orbital launch attempt and first Rocket 3 commercial flight. Vehicle also known as Rocket 3.3, which became the standard configuration used for subsequent Rocket 3 launches. [56] STP-27AD1 consisted of equipment attached to the upper stage to verify the rocket's performance during launch. [57] Terminated at an altitude of approximately 50 km (31 mi) due to an engine failure at liftoff, which precluded the possibility of reaching orbit.
29 August 07:14:49 [58]	Falcon 9 Block 5		F9-124	Kennedy LC-39A		SpaceX
		SpaceX CRS-23	NASA	Low Earth (ISS)	ISS logistics	1 October 02:57 [59]	Successful
		⚀ Binar-1 [62]	Curtin University	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	30 September 2022 [63]	Successful
		⚀ CAPSat [66]	UIUC	Low Earth	Quantum annealing	18 September 2022 [67]	Successful
		⚀ CUAVA-1 [70]	CUAVA	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	2 September 2022 [71]	Successful
		⚀ Maya-3 [72]	DOST / Kyushu Institute of Technology	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	4 August 2022 [74]	Successful
		⚀ Maya-4 [72]	DOST / Kyushu Institute of Technology	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	8 August 2022 [76]	Successful
		⚀ PR-CuNaR2 (NanoRocks-2) [77] [80]	UIPR	Low Earth	Education	30 August 2022 [81]	Successful
		⚀ SPACE HAUC [82]	UMass Lowell	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	11 April 2022 [84]	Successful
		The ELaNa 37 mission launched on this flight. [85] Binar-1, Maya-3, Maya-4, and CUAVA-1 were deployed into orbit from the ISS on 6 October 2021. CAPSat, PR-CuNaR2, and SPACE HAUC were deployed into orbit from the ISS on 12 October 2021. [86]
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3 September 01:59:00 [87] [88]	Firefly Alpha		FLTA001	Vandenberg SLC-2W		Firefly
		⚀ BSS1 (DFAST Demonstrator) [89] [91]	Benchmark Space	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	3 September	Launch failure
		⚀ Firefly Capsule 1 [89]	Firefly	Low Earth	Education
		⚀ Hiapo [89] [93]	Hawaii Science and Technology Museum	Low Earth	Thermospheric research
		⚀ Spinnaker-3 [89] [95]	Purdue University	Low Earth	Technology demonstration
		⚀ TIS Serenity [89] [97]	Teachers in Space, Inc.	Low Earth	Education
		▫  PicoBus [98]	Libre Space Foundation	Low Earth	PocketQube deployer
		▫  FOSSASAT 1b [98]	FOSSA Systems	Low Earth	LoRa communications
		▫  FOSSASAT 2 [98]	FOSSA Systems	Low Earth	Photography
		▫  GENESIS L [98]	AMSAT-EA	Low Earth	Amateur radio/Propulsion
		▫  GENESIS N [98]	AMSAT-EA	Low Earth	Amateur radio/Propulsion
		▫  QUBIK 1 [98]	Libre Space Foundation	Low Earth	Amateur radio
		▫  QUBIK 2 [98]	Libre Space Foundation	Low Earth	Amateur radio
		First flight of the Firefly Alpha commercial smallsat launcher. Over twenty rideshare payloads were manifested through Firefly's Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission (DREAM) program. [99] [100] Failure occurred about two minutes after liftoff.
7 September 03:01 [101]	Long March 4C		4C-Y40	Taiyuan LC-9		CASC
		Gaofen-5 02	Ministry of Ecology and Environment	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
9 September 11:50 [102]	Long March 3B/E		3B-Y86	Xichang LC-2		CASC
		ChinaSat 9B	China Satcom	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		Replacement for ChinaSat 9A.
9 September 19:59:47 [103] [104]	Soyuz-2.1v / Volga			Plesetsk Site 43/4		RVSN RF
		EO MKA №1 (Kosmos 2551) [106]	Ministry of Defence	Low Earth (SSO)	Reconnaissance	20 October 04:43	Spacecraft failure
		Operational successor to EMKA (Kosmos 2525). The identity of this military satellite is disputed; it may be EMKA №2 or Razbeg №1. Failed in orbit shortly after launch. [107]
14 September 03:55:50 [108]	Falcon 9 Block 5		Starlink Group 2-1	Vandenberg SLC-4E		SpaceX
		Starlink × 51	SpaceX	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		First launch of Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, to a 70-degree orbital inclination. [109] First Starlink V1.5 satellites, featuring laser inter-satellite links. First launch of Starlink Group 2 Satellites.
14 September 18:07:19 [110]	Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat		ST35	Baikonur Site 31/6		Arianespace / Starsem
		OneWeb × 34	OneWeb	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Operational
16 September 00:02:56 [111]	Falcon 9 Block 5		F9-126	Kennedy LC-39A		SpaceX
		Inspiration4	SpaceX	Low Earth	Space tourism	18 September 23:06 [112]	Successful
		Crew Dragon orbital flight carrying four civilian passengers for 3 days, led by Jared Isaacman. Mission aims to raise up to $200 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital by February 2022. [112] Civilian participant Hayley Arceneaux became the first human in space with a prosthesis, and the youngest American in space. [113]
20 September 07:10:11 [114]	Long March 7		Y4	Wenchang LC-2		CASC
		Tianzhou 3	CMSA	Low Earth (TSS)	Space logistics	27 July 2022 03:31	Successful
		Second cargo flight to the Tiangong space station.
27 September 06:19 [115] [116]	Kuaizhou 1A		Y4	Jiuquan LS-95A		ExPace
		Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D	Chang Guang Satellite Technology	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		Return-to-flight for Kuaizhou 1A following the September 2020 launch failure.
27 September 08:20 [117]	Long March 3B/E		3B-Y81	Xichang LC-2		CASC
		Shiyan 10	CAST	Molniya	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		Satellite experienced a failure in orbit following successful launch. It was subsequently reactivated and commenced orbit raising in mid-October. The satellite reached its intended Molniya orbit in March 2022. [118]
27 September 18:12 [119]	Atlas V 401		AV-092	Vandenberg SLC-3E		ULA
		Landsat 9	NASA  / USGS	Low Earth (SSO)	Meteorology	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ CUTE	CU Boulder	Low Earth (SSO)	Ultraviolet astronomy	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ CuPID [121]	Boston University	Low Earth (SSO)	Space weather	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ Cesium Mission 1 × 2 [123]	CesiumAstro	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Spacecraft failure
		The ELaNa 34 mission, consisting of two CubeSats, launched on this flight. [124] The two Cesium Mission 1 satellites experienced power failures before they could conduct their payload demonstrations. [125]
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5 October 08:55:02 [126]	Soyuz-2.1a			Baikonur Site 31/6		Roscosmos
		Soyuz MS-19	Roscosmos	Low Earth (ISS)	Expedition 65/66 Space tourism	30 March 2022 11:28:26	Successful
		Russian actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko stayed on the ISS for almost 12 days and returned aboard Soyuz MS-18. Scenes for the Russian space film The Challenge were shot during their stay. [127]
14 October 09:40:10 [128]	Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat		ST36	Vostochny Site 1S		Arianespace / Starsem
		OneWeb × 36	OneWeb	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Operational
14 October 10:51 [129]	Long March 2D		2D-Y53	Taiyuan LC-9		CASC
		Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE / Xihe) [131]	Nanjing University / SAST	Low Earth (SSO)	Solar physics	In orbit	Operational
		Guidao Daqi Midu TSW (MD-1)	CMA	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		HEAD-2E	HEAD Aerospace	Low Earth (SSO)	AIS ship tracking	In orbit	Operational
		HEAD-2F	HEAD Aerospace	Low Earth (SSO)	AIS ship tracking	In orbit	Operational
		MOTS	Shanghai Lizheng Satellite	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		QX-1	Shenzhen DFH	Low Earth (SSO)	GNSS radio occultation	In orbit	Operational
		SSS-1 [132]	Beihang University / APSCO	Low Earth (SSO)	Education	In orbit	Operational
		Tianshu-1 [134]	Insight Position Digital Intelligence Technology Service	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ Golden Bauhinia-2	ZeroG Lab	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ SSS-2A [132]	SJTU / APSCO	Low Earth (SSO)	Education	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ Tianyuan-1 [136]	NJUST	Low Earth (SSO)	Space environment Education	In orbit	Operational
15 October 16:23:56 [137]	Long March 2F		Y13	Jiuquan SLS-1		CASC
		Shenzhou 13	CMSA	Low Earth (TSS)	Crewed spaceflight	16 April 2022 01:56 [138]	Successful
		Second crewed flight to the Tiangong space station.
16 October 09:34:00 [139]	Atlas V 401		AV-096	Cape Canaveral SLC-41		ULA
		Lucy	NASA	Heliocentric	Exploration of Jupiter trojans	In orbit	En route
21 October 08:00 [140]	Nuri (KSLV-II)			Naro LC-2		KARI
		Dummy payload	KARI	Low Earth (SSO)	Flight test	21 October	Launch failure
		Maiden flight of Nuri (also known as KSLV-II), South Korea's first indigenously developed orbital launch vehicle. The third stage shut down 46 seconds prematurely, resulting in the vehicle falling short of orbital velocity. Apogee: 700 km (430 mi). [141]
24 October 01:27:03 [142]	Long March 3B/E		3B-Y83	Xichang LC-2		CASC
		Shijian-21	CAST	Geosynchronous	Space debris removal Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		Docked to the defunct Compass-G2 (Beidou-2 G2) satellite in late December. A large orbit-raising burn was performed on 22 January 2022 to send the satellite to a high graveyard orbit. [143]
24 October 02:10 [144]	Ariane 5 ECA		VA255	Kourou ELA-3		Arianespace
		SES-17	SES S.A.	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		Syracuse 4A (Comsat-NG 1) [146]	DGA	Geosynchronous	Military communications	In orbit	Operational
26 October 02:19:37 [147] [148]	H-IIA 202		F44	Tanegashima LA-Y1		MHI
		QZS-1R	CAO	Tundra	Navigation	In orbit	Operational
		Replacement for QZS-1 (Michibiki-1).
27 October 06:19 [149]	Kuaizhou 1A		Y5	Jiuquan LS-95A		ExPace
		Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F	Chang Guang Satellite Technology	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		Launch vehicle named "Kuaizhou·Xinzhou" to commemorate the rocket assembly line in Xinzhou District, Wuhan. [150] [151]
28 October 00:00:32 [152]	Soyuz-2.1a			Baikonur Site 31/6		Roscosmos
		Progress MS-18 / 79P	Roscosmos	Low Earth (ISS)	ISS logistics	1 June 2022 11:51	Successful
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3 November 07:43 [153]	Long March 2C / YZ-1S		2C-Y41	Jiuquan SLS-2		CASC
		Yaogan 32-02A	CAS	Low Earth (SSO)	Reconnaissance	In orbit	Operational
		Yaogan 32-02B	CAS	Low Earth (SSO)	Reconnaissance	In orbit	Operational
5 November 02:19 [154]	Long March 6		Y8	Taiyuan LC-16		CASC
		SDGSAT-1 (Guangmu / CASEarth)	CAS	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
6 November 03:00 [155]	Long March 2D		2D-Y63	Xichang LC-3		CASC
		Yaogan 35A	CAS	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	In orbit	Operational
		Yaogan 35B	CAS	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	In orbit	Operational
		Yaogan 35C	CAS	Low Earth	Reconnaissance	In orbit	Operational
9 November 00:55:16 [156] [157]	Epsilon		Epsilon-5	Uchinoura		JAXA
		RAISE-2	JAXA	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Successful [158]
		HIBARI	Tokyo Tech	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		Z-Sat	MHI	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		DRUMS	KHI	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		TeikyoSat-4	Teikyo University	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ ASTERISC	Chiba Institute of Technology	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ ARICA	Aoyama Gakuin University	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ NanoDragon [160]	VNSC / Meisei Electric	Low Earth (SSO)	Navigation technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ KOSEN-1	Kochi National College of Technology	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-2 mission, carrying nine satellites. [161]
11 November 02:03:31 [162]	Falcon 9 Block 5		F9-127	Kennedy LC-39A		SpaceX
		SpaceX Crew-3	SpaceX / NASA	Low Earth (ISS)	Expedition 66/67	6 May 2022 04:43 [163]	Successful
		Third operational Crew Dragon mission, as part of the Commercial Crew Program.
13 November 12:19:30 [164]	Falcon 9 Block 5		Starlink Group 4-1	Cape Canaveral SLC-40		SpaceX
		Starlink × 53	SpaceX	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		First launch of Starlink Group 4 Satellites from Cape Canaveral.
16 November 09:27:55 [165] [166]	Vega		VV20	Kourou ELV		Arianespace
		CERES × 3	CNES / DGA	Low Earth	SIGINT	In orbit	Operational
18 November 01:38:13 [167]	Electron		"Love At First Insight"	Mahia LC-1A		Rocket Lab
		BlackSky 10 (Global-14) [168]	BlackSky	Low Earth	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		BlackSky 11 (Global-15) [168]	BlackSky	Low Earth	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		Second of four dedicated launches for BlackSky. [169]
20 November 01:51 [170] [171]	Long March 4B		4B-Y52	Taiyuan LC-9		CASC
		Gaofen 11-03	CNSA	Low Earth (SSO)	Reconnaissance	In orbit	Operational
20 November 06:16 [172]	Rocket 3.3		LV0007	Kodiak LP-3B		Astra
		STP-27AD2	U.S. Space Force	Low Earth	Flight test	In orbit	Operational
		Fourth Rocket 3 orbital launch attempt and first to successfully reach orbit. STP-27AD2 consists of equipment attached to the upper stage to verify the rocket's performance during launch.
22 November 23:45 [173]	Long March 4C		4C-Y37	Jiuquan SLS-2		CASC
		Gaofen 3-02	Ministry of Natural Resources	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
24 November 06:21:02 [174]	Falcon 9 Block 5		F9-129	Vandenberg SLC-4E		SpaceX
		DART	NASA	Heliocentric	Asteroid redirect test	26 September 2022 23:14	Successful
		⚀ LICIACube [176]	ASI	Heliocentric	Asteroid flyby	In orbit	Operational
		The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft traveled to 65803 Didymos and impacted its small asteroid satellite, Dimorphos.
24 November 13:06:35 [177]	Soyuz-2.1b			Baikonur Site 31/6		Roscosmos
		Progress M-UM	Roscosmos	Low Earth (ISS)	Space tug	23 December 04:30	Successful
		Prichal	Roscosmos	Low Earth (ISS)	ISS assembly	In orbit	Operational
		ISS flight 6R.
24 November 23:41 [178]	Kuaizhou 1A		Y13	Jiuquan LS-95A		ExPace
		Shiyan 11	CAST	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
25 November 01:09:13 [179]	Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat			Plesetsk Site 43/4		VKS
		EKS-5 (Tundra 15L, Kosmos 2552)	Ministry of Defence	Tundra	Early warning	In orbit	Operational
26 November 16:40:04 [180]	Long March 3B/E		3B-Y79	Xichang LC-2		CASC
		ChinaSat-1D	China Satcom	Geosynchronous	Military communications	In orbit	Operational
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2 December 23:12 [181]	Falcon 9 Block 5		Starlink Group 4-3	Cape Canaveral SLC-40		SpaceX
		Starlink × 48	SpaceX	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		BlackSky 12 (Global-12) [168]	BlackSky	Low Earth	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		BlackSky 13 (Global-13) [168]	BlackSky	Low Earth	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		Two BlackSky satellites were launched as part of the SXRS-2 rideshare mission.
5 December 00:19:20 [182]	Soyuz ST-B / Fregat-MT		VS26	Kourou ELS		Arianespace
		Galileo FOC FM23	ESA	Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Operational
		Galileo FOC FM24	ESA	Medium Earth	Navigation	In orbit	Operational
		Eighth Galileo launch with Soyuz ST-B, carrying satellites Nikolina and Shriya.
7 December 04:12 [183] [184]	Ceres-1		Y2	Jiuquan LS-95A		Galactic Energy
		⚀ Tianjin University-1 [186]	Chang Guang Satellite Technology / Tianjin Yunyao Aerospace	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ Baoyun	Spacety	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ Lize-1	Spacety	Low Earth (SSO)	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ Golden Bauhinia-1 03	ZeroG Lab / HKATG	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ Golden Bauhinia-5	Starwiz / HKATG	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		Mission designated "Keep On Moving".
7 December 10:19 [187]	Atlas V 551		AV-093 [188]	Cape Canaveral SLC-41		ULA
		STPSat-6	U.S. Space Force	Geosynchronous	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		LDPE-1	U.S. Space Force	Geosynchronous	ESPA Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ Ascent	AFRL	Geosynchronous	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		Space Test Program 3 (STP-3) mission. STPSat-6 hosts the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload. [189] Ascent was deployed from LDPE-1 on 25 January 2022. [190] [191]
8 December 07:38:15 [192]	Soyuz-2.1a			Baikonur Site 31/6		Roscosmos
		Soyuz MS-20	Roscosmos	Low Earth (ISS)	Space tourism	20 December 03:13	Successful
		12-day mission to the ISS with a crew of three, including one professional cosmonaut and two tourists.
9 December 00:02:07 [193]	Electron		"A Data With Destiny"	Mahia LC-1A		Rocket Lab
		BlackSky 14 (Global-16) [168]	BlackSky	Low Earth	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		BlackSky 15 (Global-17) [168]	BlackSky	Low Earth	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		Third of four dedicated launches for BlackSky. [169]
9 December 06:00 [194]	Falcon 9 Block 5		F9-131	Kennedy LC-39A		SpaceX
		IXPE	NASA / ASI	Low Earth	X-ray astronomy	In orbit	Operational
		Designated SMEX-14 under NASA's Small Explorers program.
10 December 00:11 [195]	Long March 4B		4B-Y47	Jiuquan SLS-2		CASC
		Shijian-6 05A	CNSA	Low Earth (SSO)	ELINT	In orbit	Operational
		Shijian-6 05B	CNSA	Low Earth (SSO)	ELINT	In orbit	Operational
13 December 12:07:00 [196]	Proton-M / Briz-M			Baikonur Site 200/39		Roscosmos
		Ekspress-AMU3	RSCC	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		Ekspress-AMU7	RSCC	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		Ekspress-AMU3 and AMU7 will replace Ekspress-AM33 and Ekspress-A4, respectively. [197] This mission could also be considered as a partial launch failure. An anomaly occurred during the firing of the Briz-M upper stage, leaving the satellites in an out-specifications orbit, so that the satellites had to do salvage maneuvers to reach their intended orbits. [198]
13 December 16:09 [199]	Long March 3B/E		3B-Y82	Xichang LC-3		CASC
		Tianlian II-02	CNSA	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
15 December 02:00 [200] [201]	Kuaizhou 1A		Y17	Jiuquan LS-95A		ExPace
		GeeSAT-1A	Geespace	Low Earth	Navigation	15 December	Launch failure
		GeeSAT-1B	Geespace	Low Earth	Navigation
18 December 12:41:40 [202]	Falcon 9 Block 5		Starlink Group 4-4	Vandenberg SLC-4E		SpaceX
		Starlink × 52	SpaceX	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		First time a Falcon 9 first stage booster flew for an eleventh time. First launch of Starlink Group 4 Satellites from Vandenberg.
19 December 03:58:39 [203]	Falcon 9 Block 5		F9-133	Cape Canaveral SLC-40		SpaceX
		Türksat 5B	Türksat	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
		New record for the shortest time between two SpaceX Falcon 9 launches at 15 hours and 17 minutes.
21 December 10:07:08 [204]	Falcon 9 Block 5		F9-134	Kennedy LC-39A		SpaceX
		SpaceX CRS-24	NASA	Low Earth (ISS)	ISS logistics	24 January 2022 21:05	Successful
		⚀ DAILI	The Aerospace Corporation	Low Earth	Ionospheric research	26 June 2022 [206]	Successful
		⚀ FEES2 [209]	GP Advanced Projects	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	16 November 2022 [210]	Successful
		⚀ GASPACS	USU	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	22 May 2022 [212]	Successful
		⚀ GT-1 [215]	Georgia Tech	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	19 June 2022 [216]	Successful
		⚀ Light-1 [219]	UAESA / NSSA	Low Earth	TGF research	16 January 2023 [220]	Successful
		⚀ PATCOOL	University of Florida / NASA	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	18 November 2022 [222]	Successful
		⚀ TARGIT	GTRC	Low Earth	Technology demonstration	3 May 2022 [224]	Successful
		Light-1 is the first Bahraini satellite (in partnership with the UAE). The ELaNa 38 mission, consisting of four CubeSats (DAILI, GASPACS, PATCOOL, and TARGIT), launched on this flight. [225] FEES2, GASPACS, PATCOOL, DAILI, and TARGIT were deployed into orbit from ISS on 26 January 2022. [226] [227] [228] [229] Light-1 and GT-1 were deployed on 3 February 2022. [230]
22 December 15:32:00 [231]	H-IIA 204		F45	Tanegashima LA-Y1		MHI
		Inmarsat-6 F1 [233]	Inmarsat	Geosynchronous	Communications	In orbit	Operational
23 December 10:12 [234]	Long March 7A		7A-Y3	Wenchang LC-2		CASC
		Shiyan 12-01	CAST	Geosynchronous	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
		Shiyan 12-02	CAST	Geosynchronous	Technology demonstration	In orbit	Operational
25 December 12:20 [235]	Ariane 5 ECA		VA256	Kourou ELA-3		Arianespace
		James Webb Space Telescope	NASA / ESA / CSA	Sun–Earth L2, Halo orbit	Astronomy	In orbit	Operational
		International space observatory mission utilizing a long-wavelength visible and infrared telescope. Launching to L2.
26 December 03:11:31 [236] [237]	Long March 4C		4C-Y39	Taiyuan LC-9		CASC
		Ziyuan I-02E	Ministry of Natural Resources	Low Earth (SSO)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
		⚀ XW-3 (CAS-9)	CAMSAT	Low Earth (SSO)	Amateur radio	In orbit	Operational
27 December 13:10:37 [238] [239]	Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat		ST37	Baikonur Site 31/6		Arianespace / Starsem
		OneWeb × 36	OneWeb	Low Earth	Communications	In orbit	Operational
27 December 19:00 [240] [241]	Angara A5 / Persei			Plesetsk Site 35/1		RVSN RF
		IPN-1 (dummy payload)	Khrunichev	Intended: Geocentric supersynchronous Actual: Low Earth	Flight test	5 January 2022 21:08 [242]	Partial launch failure
		Flight test of Persei, a Blok DM-03 upper stage variant for Angara. The upper stage failed to restart for its second planned burn, leaving itself and the dummy payload in a rapidly decaying low Earth orbit.
29 December 11:13 [243]	Long March 2D		2D-Y41	Jiuquan SLS-2		CASC
		Tianhui-4	CNSA	Low Earth (Polar)	Earth observation	In orbit	Operational
29 December 16:43:03 [244]	Long March 3B/E		3B-Y84	Xichang LC-2		CASC
		TJS-9	CAST	Geosynchronous	SIGINT	In orbit	Operational
30 December 03:30 [245] [246]	Simorgh			Semnan LP-2		ISA
		TBA	ISA	Low Earth	TBA	In orbit	Launch failure
		TBA	ISA	Low Earth	TBA	In orbit	Launch failure
		TBA	ISA	Low Earth	TBA	In orbit	Launch failure
		Iranian state media reported a successful flight, but no objects were detected in orbit following this launch. Reported apogee: 470 km (290 mi).

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Suborbital flights

Date and time (UTC)	Rocket		Flight number	Launch site		LSP
		Payload (⚀ = CubeSat)	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
		Remarks
3 July 08:45:01 [247] [248]	Momo		F7	Taiki		Interstellar Technologies
		Infrasound sensor	Kochi University of Technology	Suborbital	Atmospheric research	3 July 2021 08:55	Successful
		Apogee: 99–100 km (62 mi). Naming rights sold to Sunco Industries, which chose to name this vehicle Screw Rocket (ねじのロケット, Neji no Rocket) to draw attention to the large number of Sunco screws used on Momo rockets. [247] A single rose from Hana-Cupid was also launched on this flight. [248]
7 July 18:00 [249]	Black Brant IX		Dynamo-2	Wallops Flight Facility		NASA
		Dynamo-2	Goddard Space Flight Center	Suborbital	Atmospheric research	7 July	Successful
		Dynamos, Winds, and Electric Fields in the Daytime Lower Ionosphere-2 (Dynamo-2) mission to investigate the atmospheric dynamo. First of two launches. Apogee: 122 km (76 mi).
7 July [250]	Target ballistic missile
			Ministry of Defence	Suborbital	Missile target	7 July	Successful
		Intercepted by S-500 missile.
7 July [250]	S-500			Kapustin Yar
		Kill vehicle	Ministry of Defence	Suborbital	Missile test	7 July	Successful
		S-500 intercepted target ballistic missile.
11 July 15:25 [251]	SpaceShipTwo		Unity 22	Spaceport America		Virgin Galactic
		Virgin Galactic Unity 22	Virgin Galactic	Suborbital	Crewed spaceflight	11 July 15:38	Successful
		Apogee: 86.1 km (53.5 mi). Second VSS Unity test flight carrying two pilots and four passengers including company founder Richard Branson.
11 July 17:56 [249] [252]	Black Brant IX		Dynamo-2	Wallops Flight Facility		NASA
		Dynamo-2	Goddard Space Flight Center	Suborbital	Atmospheric research	11 July	Successful
		Dynamos, Winds, and Electric Fields in the Daytime Lower Ionosphere-2 (Dynamo-2) mission to investigate the atmospheric dynamo. Second of two launches.
16 July [253] [254]	Reusable Suborbital Carrier			Jiuquan		CASC
			CASC	Suborbital	Test flight	16 July	Successful
		First test flight of the Reusable Suborbital Carrier (亚轨道重复使用运载器). It successfully landed at Alxa Right Banner Badanjilin Airport. [253]
17 July [255]	SORS			Sinop Test Center		Delta V
			Roketsan	Suborbital	Test flight	17 July	Successful
		Apogee: >50 mi (>80 km). First flight test of the Probe Rocket System (SORS).
20 July 13:11 [256]	New Shepard		NS-16	Corn Ranch		Blue Origin
		Blue Origin NS-16	Blue Origin	Suborbital	Crewed spaceflight	20 July 13:21	Successful
		First crewed flight of the New Shepard suborbital vehicle. Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark joined Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen on this flight. Apogee: 107 km (66 mi).
24 July [257]	SRBM		FTM-33	Barking Sands		U.S. Navy
			U.S Navy	Suborbital	Missile target	24 July	Successful
		Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 33, a test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Mock short-range ballistic missiles used as targets for SM-6 Dual II interceptors. One missile was confirmed to have been intercepted while the other was not. (1 of 2).
24 July [257]	SRBM		FTM-33	Barking Sands		U.S. Navy
			U.S Navy	Suborbital	Missile target	24 July	Successful
		Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 33, a test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Mock short-range ballistic missiles used as targets for SM-6 Dual II interceptors. One missile was confirmed to have been intercepted while the other was not. (2 of 2).
24 July [257]	SM-6 Dual II		FTM-33	USS Ralph Johnson		U.S. Navy
		Kill vehicle	U.S Navy	Suborbital	Interceptor	24 July	Successful
		Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 33, a test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Interceptor targeting two mock short-range ballistic missiles. (1 of 4)
24 July [257]	SM-6 Dual II		FTM-33	USS Ralph Johnson		U.S. Navy
		Kill vehicle	U.S Navy	Suborbital	Interceptor	24 July	Successful
		Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 33, a test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Interceptor targeting two mock short-range ballistic missiles. (2 of 4)
24 July [257]	SM-6 Dual II		FTM-33	USS Ralph Johnson		U.S. Navy
		Kill vehicle	U.S Navy	Suborbital	Interceptor	24 July	Successful
		Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 33, a test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Interceptor targeting two mock short-range ballistic missiles. (3 of 4)
24 July [257]	SM-6 Dual II		FTM-33	USS Ralph Johnson		U.S. Navy
		Kill vehicle	U.S Navy	Suborbital	Interceptor	24 July	Successful
		Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 33, a test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Interceptor targeting two mock short-range ballistic missiles. (4 of 4)
26 July 20:30 [258]	S-520		S-520-31	Uchinoura		JAXA
		DES Demonstration	JAXA	Suborbital	Technology demonstration	26 July 20:38	Successful
		Apogee: 235 km (146 mi). [258] Detonation engine system (DES) technology demonstration, combining pulse detonation engine and rotating detonation engine technologies. [259] [260]
28 July [261]	AGM-183 ARRW		ARRW BTF-1	Boeing B-52 Stratofortress		U.S. Air Force
		Booster Test Vehicle 1b (BTV-1b)	U.S. Air Force	Suborbital	Flight test	28 July	Launch failure
		Solid rocket motor failed to ignite after airdropped over the Point Mugu Sea Range.
30 July 18:20 [262] [263]	Black Brant IX		MaGIXS	White Sands Missile Range		NASA
		Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer	Marshall Space Flight Center	Suborbital	Heliophysics	30 July	Successful
		Apogee: 308 km (191 mi). [264]
31 July 08:00 [265]	Momo		F6	Taiki		Interstellar Technologies
		TENGA Message Pod	Tenga	Suborbital	Space advertising	31 July 08:10	Successful
		TENGA Robo	Tenga	Suborbital	Space advertising
		Apogee: 92 km (57 mi). First of three Interstellar Technologies launches sponsored by Tenga. Flew after Momo F7.
11 August 07:53 [266]	Minuteman-III			Vandenberg LF-09		U.S. Air Force
		HFJTA reentry vehicle	U.S. Air Force	Suborbital	Test flight	11 August	Successful
		Hi-Fidelity Joint Test Assembly (HFJTA) reentry vehicle successfully detonated approximately 4,200 mi (6,800 km) downrange near Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
11 August 14:44 [267]	SpaceLoft XL		SL-16	Spaceport America		UP Aerospace
		ReDX-1	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Suborbital	Technology demonstration	11 August	Successful
		Mission SL-16. Apogee: 100 km (62 mi).
12 August [268]	Ghaznavi					ASFC
			ASFC	Suborbital	Missile test	12 August	Successful
12 August [269]	Economical Target-2			White Sands Missile Range		SMDC
			SMDC	Suborbital	Target missile	12 August	Successful
		First launch of the Economical Target-2.
13 August [18]
		Hypersonic test	PLARF	Suborbital	Hypersonic glide vehicle test	13 August	Successful
19 August 21:00 [270] [271]	Terrier-Improved Malemute		ROCKSAT-X 2020	Wallops Flight Facility		NASA
		RockSat-X	Colorado Space Grant Consortium	Suborbital	Education	19 August	Successful
		Apogee: 98 mi (158 km).
21 August [272]	DF-15			Gobi Desert		PLA Rocket Force
		Live warhead	PLA	Suborbital	Missile test	21 August	Successful
		Missile test (1 of 2).
21 August [272]	DF-15			Gobi Desert		PLA Rocket Force
		Live warhead	PLA	Suborbital	Missile test	21 August	Successful
		Missile test (2 of 2).
26 August 14:31 [273] [274]	New Shepard		NS-17	Corn Ranch		Blue Origin
		Blue Origin NS-17	Blue Origin	Suborbital	Uncrewed commercial spaceflight	26 August 14:41	Successful
		Postcards	Club For The Future	Suborbital	Education
		Uncrewed flight of New Shepard that will carry 18 commercial payloads inside the crew capsule, 11 of which are NASA-supported, and an art installation by Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo on the exterior of the capsule. Apogee: 65.8 mi (105.9 km).
31 August 03:30 [275]	Tianxing 2		Y4			Space Transportation
			Space Transportation	Suborbital	Flight test	31 August	Successful
		Test flight of the Tianxing 2 suborbital spaceplane.
4 September [276]	Zulfiqar					Houthis
		Live warhead	Houthis	Suborbital	Missile launch	4 September	Intercepted
		Successful launch. Warhead was intercepted.
9 September 17:25 [277]	Black Brant IX			White Sands Missile Range		NASA
		SDO EVE Underflight Calibration Experiment	CU Boulder	Suborbital	Satellite instrument calibration	9 September	Successful
		Launched a copy of the EVE instrument on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory for calibration purposes. Apogee: 182 mi (293 km).
11 September 22:07:30 [278] [279]	Terrier-Improved Malemute			Wallops Flight Facility		NASA
		HOTShot	Sandia National Laboratories	Suborbital	Flight test	11 September	Successful
		Apogee: 99 mi (159 km).
12 September 00:45 [280]	Tianxing 1		Y8			Space Transportation
			Space Transportation	Suborbital	Flight test	12 September	Successful
		Test flight of the Tianxing 1 suborbital spaceplane.
12 September 17:30 [281]	Ground-Based Interceptor		BVT-03	Vandenberg LF-24		MDA
		EKV mock-up	MDA	Suborbital	ABM flight test	12 September	Successful
		Booster Verification Test 03 (BVT-03) for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system. [282] A mock-up Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) was flown. [283]
15 September [284]	Hyunmoo-4-4			ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho		ROK Navy
			ROK Navy	Suborbital	Missile test	15 September	Successful
		First successful South Korean SLBM test launch.
16 September 06:39 [285] [286]	Hapith I		VS01 [287]	Whalers Way Pad 1		TiSPACE
		Ionosphere Scintillation Package (ISP) [289]	NSPO	Suborbital	Ionospheric scintillation research	16 September	Precluded
		Maiden flight of Hapith I and first of three test launches from Pad 1 at Whalers Way. [290] Launch failure at ignition. Intended apogee: 250 km (160 mi). [291]
17 September [292]	UGM-133 Trident II		DASO-31	USS Wyoming (SSBN-742)		U.S. Navy
			U.S. Navy	Suborbital	Missile test	17 September	Successful
		1 of 2.
17 September [292]	UGM-133 Trident II		DASO-31	USS Wyoming (SSBN-742)		U.S. Navy
			U.S. Navy	Suborbital	Missile test	17 September	Successful
		2 of 2.
27 September 00:33 [293]	Tianxing 1		Y5			Space Transportation
			Space Transportation	Suborbital	Flight test	27 September	Successful
		Test flight of the Tianxing 1 suborbital spaceplane.
1–3 October [294] [295] [296]	Improved Malemute			Andøya		Andøya Space
		PMWE	IAP	Suborbital	Mesospheric research	1–3 October	Successful
		Multiple Improved Malemute launches for the Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes (PMWE) experiment. (1 of 2)
1–3 October [294] [295] [296]	Improved Malemute			Andøya		Andøya Space
		PMWE	IAP	Suborbital	Mesospheric research	1–3 October	Successful
		Multiple Improved Malemute launches for the Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes (PMWE) experiment. (2 of 2)
3 October [296] [297]	T-Minus DART			Andøya		T-Minus Engineering
		Qualification payload	T-minus Engineering	Suborbital	Mesospheric research	3 October	Failure
		Rocket failed at high supersonic speeds and did not deploy the payload.
8 October 17:40 [298]	Black Brant IX			White Sands Missile Range		NASA
		CLASP-2.1	NASA MSFC	Suborbital	Heliophysics	8 October	Successful
		Chromospheric LAyer SpectroPolarimeter Reflight (CLASP-2.1) will map the circular polarization of the chromosphere. Third flight for this instrument. Apogee: 272 km (169 mi).
13 October 14:49 [299]	New Shepard		NS-18	Corn Ranch		Blue Origin
		Blue Origin NS-18	Blue Origin	Suborbital	Crewed spaceflight	13 October 14:59	Successful
		Second crewed flight of New Shepard. William Shatner flew on this mission, becoming the oldest person to have flown to space at the age of 90. [300] Apogee: 107 km (66 mi).
20–21 October 21:00–03:00 [301] [302]	Terrier Malemute			Wallops Flight Facility		NASA
			Sandia National Laboratories	Suborbital	Technology demonstration	20–21 October	Successful
		1 of 3. High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign.
20–21 October 21:00–03:00 [301] [302]	Terrier Malemute			Wallops Flight Facility		NASA
			Sandia National Laboratories	Suborbital	Technology demonstration	20–21 October	Successful
		2 of 3. High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign.
20–21 October 21:00–03:00 [301] [302]	Terrier Malemute			Wallops Flight Facility		NASA
			Sandia National Laboratories	Suborbital	Technology demonstration	20–21 October	Successful
		3 of 3. High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign.
21 October [303]			FT-3	Kodiak		Department of Defense
			Department of Defense	Suborbital	Missile test	21 October	Launch failure
		Hypersonic Flight Test-3 (FT-3). Booster failed in flight.
21 October [304]	Bulava			Knyaz Oleg, White Sea		Ministry of Defence
			Ministry of Defence	Suborbital	Missile test	21 October	Successful
27 October 14:20 [305]	Agni-V			Integrated Test Range		Ministry of Defence
			Ministry of Defence	Suborbital	Missile test	27 October	Successful
4 November 10:09:25 [306]	SS-520		SS-520-3	SvalRak		JAXA
		Ion Outflow in the Cusp	JAXA	Suborbital	Magnetospheric science	4 November 10:25:15	Successful
		JAXA's contribution to the Grand Challenge Initiative–Cusp (GCI-Cusp) project. [307] Apogee: 956 km (594 mi).
8 November 09:25 [308]	Black Brant IX			White Sands Missile Range		NASA
		SISTINE-2	CU Boulder	Suborbital	UV spectroscopy	8 November	Successful
		Apogee: 258 km (160 mi).
15 November ~02:45 [309] [310]	PL-19 Nudol			Plesetsk		Ministry of Defence
			Ministry of Defence	Suborbital	ASAT missile test	15 November	Successful
		Anti-satellite missile test, destroying the defunct Kosmos 1408 satellite.
25 November [311]	Shaheen 1-A					ASFC
			ASFC	Suborbital	Missile test	25 November	Successful
1 December 08:25 [312]	Talos Terrier Oriole Nihka (Oriole IV)			Andøya		NASA
		CREX-2	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Suborbital	Magnetospheric research	1 December	Successful
		Last launch of the Grand Challenge Initiative–Cusp (GCI-Cusp) project. [307] [313] Apogee: 392 mi (631 km).
6 December 08:07 [314] [315]	Improved Malemute/Improved Malemute		MAPHEUS 10	Esrange		MORABA
		MAPHEUS 10	DLR	Suborbital	Microgravity research	6 December 08:22	Successful
		Apogee: 259 km (161 mi).
6 December [316]	Zulfiqar					Houthis
		Live warhead	Houthis	Suborbital	Missile launch	6 December	Intercepted
		Successful launch. Warhead was intercepted.
9 December 02:17 [317]	Tianxing 1		Y5B			Space Transportation
			Space Transportation	Suborbital	Flight test	9 December	Successful
		Test flight of the Tianxing 1 suborbital spaceplane.
9 December [318] [319]	Blue Whale 0.1			Jeju Island		Perigee Aerospace
			Perigee Aerospace / KAIST	Suborbital	Flight test	5 December	Successful?
		First flight of Blue Whale 0.1
11 December 15:00:42 [320] [321]	New Shepard		NS-19	Corn Ranch		Blue Origin
		Blue Origin NS-19	Blue Origin	Suborbital	Crewed spaceflight	11 December 15:10:55	Successful
		Third crewed flight of New Shepard. First flight carrying a full manifest of six passengers. Apogee: 107 km (66 mi).
14 December [322]	VSB-30		V32	Alcântara Space Center		FAB
		Hypersonic glide vehicle	FAB	Suborbital	Technology demonstration	14 December	Successful
		14-XS mission. Apogee: 160 km (99 mi).
17 December 06:30 [323]	Huayi-1					Huayi Spacetime
		Agile Testbed / Sparkle-1	Rocket Pi	Suborbital	Microgravity research	17 December	Successful
		Maiden flight of the Huayi-1 sounding rocket. Apogee: 250 km (160 mi).
17 December [324] [325]	Tianxing 2		Y5			Space Transportation
			Space Transportation	Suborbital	Flight test	17 December	Successful
		Test flight of the Tianxing 2 suborbital spaceplane.
18 December 05:36 [326]	Agni-P			Integrated Test Range		Ministry of Defence
			Ministry of Defence	Suborbital	Missile test	18 December	Successful
19 December [324] [325]	Tianxing 2		Y5			Space Transportation
			Space Transportation	Suborbital	Flight test	19 December	Successful
		Test flight of the Tianxing 2 suborbital spaceplane and first reuse of the same spaceplane in two different test flights.
22 December [327]	Pralay			Integrated Test Range		Ministry of Defence
			Ministry of Defence	Suborbital	Missile test	22 December	Successful
		Launch of two Pralay missiles. (1 of 2)
23 December [327]	Pralay			Integrated Test Range		Ministry of Defence
			Ministry of Defence	Suborbital	Missile test	23 December	Successful
		Launch of two Pralay missiles. (2 of 2)
24 December [328]	Sajil					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
24 December [328]	Emad					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
24 December [328]	Ghader					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Launch of two Ghader missiles in close succession. (1 of 2)
24 December [328]	Ghader					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Launch of two Ghader missiles in close succession. (2 of 2)
24 December [328]	Zalzal					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (1 of 11)
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (2 of 11)
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (3 of 11)
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (4 of 11)
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (5 of 11)
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (6 of 11)
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (7 of 11)
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (8 of 11)
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (9 of 11)
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (10 of 11)
24 December [328]	Dezful/Zolfaghar					IRGC
		Live warhead	IRGC	Suborbital	Missile test	24 December	Successful
		Rapid launch of 11 Dezful/Zolfaghar missiles. (11 of 11)
29 December [329]	Blue Whale 0.1			Jeju Island		Perigee Aerospace
			Perigee Aerospace / KAIST	Suborbital	Flight test	29 December	Launch failure
		Test flight of a suborbital rocket to validate the engines for the Blue Whale 1 launch vehicle. Expected apogee: 100 km (62 mi). [330] Flight was terminated shortly after launch due to unexpectedly strong winds.
30 December [331] 04:40	Tianxing ?					Space Transportation
			Space Transportation	Suborbital	Flight test	30 December	Successful
		Test flight of the Tianxing suborbital spaceplane.
Late December [332]	S-500			Kapustin Yar
		Kill vehicle	Ministry of Defence	Suborbital	Missile test	Late December	Successful
		S-500 intercepted target ballistic missile.

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