List of spaceflight launches in July–September 2026

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This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the first quarter of the year 2025.

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For all other spaceflight activities, see 2026 in spaceflight. For launches during the rest of 2025, 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

Date and time (UTC) Rocket Flight number Launch site LSP
Payload
(⚀ = CubeSat)
Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC)Outcome
Remarks

July

July (TBD) [1] Flag of Italy.svg Vega-C Flag of France.svg Kourou ELV Flag of France.svg Arianespace
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg ClearSpace-1 ClearSpace SA (EPFL) Low Earth Space debris removal 
ClearSpace-1 will capture and de-orbit the PROBA-1 satellite. [2]
July (TBD) [3] Flag of Russia.svg Soyuz-2.1a Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Baikonur Site 31/6 Flag of Russia.svg Roscosmos
Flag of Russia.svg Soyuz MS-29 Roscosmos Low Earth (ISS) Expedition 74/75  
July (TBD) [4] Flag of Russia.svg Soyuz-2.1a Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Baikonur Site 31/6 Flag of Russia.svg Roscosmos
Flag of Russia.svg Progress MS-34 / 95P Roscosmos Low Earth (ISS) ISS logistics  

August

August (TBD) [5] [6] Flag of the United States.svg Falcon 9 Block 5 Flag of the United States.svg Vandenberg SLC-4E Flag of the United States.svg SpaceX
Flag of the United States.svg 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).

September

September (TBD) [5] [6] Flag of the United States.svg Vulcan Centaur Flag of the United States.svg Vandenberg SLC-3E Flag of the United States.svg ULA
Flag of the United States.svg 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).
Q3 (TBD) [7] Flag of the United States.svg Atlas V N22 Flag of the United States.svg Cape Canaveral SLC-41 Flag of the United States.svg ULA
Flag of the United States.svg Boeing Starliner-1 (PCM-1) Boeing / NASA Low Earth (ISS)TBA 
First operational Starliner mission, as part of the Commercial Crew Program.
Q3 (TBD) [8] Flag of France.svg Ariane 62 Flag of France.svg Kourou ELA-4 Flag of France.svg Arianespace
EUMETSAT logo 2020.svg MetOp-SG B1 [9] EUMETSAT Low Earth (SSO) Meteorology  
Second of six MetOp-SG launches. [10]
Q3 (TBD) [8] Flag of France.svg Ariane 64 [11] Flag of France.svg Kourou ELA-4 Flag of France.svg Arianespace
EUMETSAT logo 2020.svg MTG-I2 [12] EUMETSAT Geosynchronous Meteorology  

Suborbital flights

Date and time (UTC) Rocket Flight number Launch site LSP
Payload
(⚀ = CubeSat)
Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC)Outcome
Remarks
23 August [13] Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Black Brant IX Flag of the Marshall Islands.svg Reagan Test Site NASA
Flag of the United States.svg Evex-2 Goddard Space Flight Center SuborbitalGeospace science 
First of two launches
23 August [13] Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Black Brant IX Flag of the Marshall Islands.svg Reagan Test Site NASA
Flag of the United States.svg Evex-2 Goddard Space Flight Center SuborbitalGeospace science 
Second of two launches

Reference

  1. Rainbow, Jason (9 May 2023). "ClearSpace books Vega C for 2026 de-orbit mission". SpaceNews . Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  2. Werner, Debra (24 April 2024). "Major changes approved for ClearSpace-1 mission". SpaceNews . Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  3. "Next year's Russian manned missions to ISS due in March, September — source". TASS. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  4. "Космодром Байконур" [Baikonur Cosmodrome]. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  5. 1 2 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.
  6. 1 2 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 1 2 "Planned launches". EUMETSAT . 4 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  9. Krebs, Gunter (29 April 2022). "METOP-SG-B 1, 2, 3". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  10. Henry, Caleb (11 September 2017). "Eumetsat launching two, possibly three Metop-SG satellites with Arianespace". SpaceNews . Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  11. "EUMETSAT to exploit ESA-developed launchers and flight operations software". EUMETSAT . 2 December 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  12. Krebs, Gunter (10 September 2022). "MTG-I 1, 2, 3, 4 (Meteosat 12, 14, 15, 17)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  13. 1 2 "NASA Sounding Rockets BlueBook" (PDF). Wallops Flight Facility . NASA. 23 November 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
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