Look to the Sky: Here’s Every Major US Space Launch Scheduled in 2025
Two major space launches in two days have given 2025 an exciting start. this Blue Ghost lunar lander on its way to the moonjust one day after leaving Earth, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched its massive rocket, new glennamed in honor of American space legend John Glenn.
In 2024, space agencies around the world successfully launched a total of 244 missions into orbit or space. This is Most in history. The United States leads with more than half the launches. Dozens of space launches are already planned for 2025, following Blue Ghost and New Glenn.
Want to see liftoff? Many of them may Live broadcast by NASA or from YouTube channel Individual companies like SpaceX. Space launches are finicky, and dates often change without warning. But if you want to keep an eye on the skies in 2025, the list below should help.
January
The Blue Ghost lunar lander is seen at Firefly Aerospace’s headquarters in Cedar Park, Texas, in December 2024.
Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 and Hakuto-R M2 Resilient
Launch date: Successfully launched on January 15th
organize: SpaceX / NASA / Firefly Aerospace
Launch location: Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Rocket: SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5
This unmanned mission, Launched on January 15thwill carry Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander to the moon, as well as a payload of 10 NASA instruments designed to measure various metrics on the lunar surface, including position and navigation data, regolith behavior and Earth’s magnetosphere.
New Glenn’s first launch
Launch date: Successfully launched on January 16th
organize: Blue Origin/NASA
Rocket: blue origin new glen
Launch location: Launch Complex 36, Space Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida
The first test flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket was originally scheduled for January 13. However, a vehicle subsystem issue arose that took a long time to troubleshoot on the launch pad, so Blue Origin rescheduled the launch. Successfully entered orbit on January 16. In addition to the first launch, payloads include the Blue Ring Pathfinder, designed to demonstrate its ability to communicate from orbit to the ground.
Read more: New Glenn rocket launch marks big moment for Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin
February
Lunar Pathfinder and Nova-C IM-2
Launch date: February 27
organize: SpaceX / NASA / Intuitive Machines
Rocket: SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5
Launch location: Kennedy Space Center, Florida
This mission will carry the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander to the moon for its second mission. This trip will also include NASA’s PRIME-1 payloadwhich will drill into the moon and use a mass spectrometer to analyze materials below the surface.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft took off in October 2022 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Launch date: February 25
organize: SpaceX/NASA
Rocket: SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5
Launch location: SFB Vandenberg, California
SpaceX plans to send its Falcon 9 rocket to the moon NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH. SPHEREx is a two-year mission that will collect data by launching a satellite capable of detecting near-infrared and visible light. PUNCH is four suitcase-sized satellites that will monitor the Sun’s corona to detect coronal mass ejections and ultimately be able to predict when they will occur.
March
Crew 10
Launch date: March 25
organize: SpaceX/NASA/ROSCOSMOS/JAXA
Rocket: SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5
Launch location: Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
The crewed flight to the International Space Station will include American astronauts Anne McClain and Nicole Ayers, Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi. Once at the International Space Station, Crew-9 will return to Earth with Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.
Project Kuiper (Vulcan #1 and Vulcan #2)
Project Kuiper is an Amazon subsidiary with big launch plans.
Launch date: To be determined
organize: United Launch Alliance/Kuiper Systems (Amazon)
Rocket: Vulcan VC6L and Atlas V 551
Launch location: Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
The first two Project Kuiper launches are scheduled for March 2025. Kuiper Systems, a subsidiary of Amazon, plans to put a total of 3,276 satellites into orbit for broadband internet access to compete with the likes of SpaceX. There will be many such projects in 2025 and beyond, but this project is expected to start in March 2025.
blue moon pathfinder
Launch date: To be determined
organize: blue origin
Rocket: blue origin new glen
Launch location: Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
Blue Origin will finally start testing it Blue Moon Pathfinder MK1 Lunar lander. While Blue Origin hasn’t landed on the moon yet, its launches are always going to receive a lot of media attention before landing on the moon. Eventually, Blue Origin hopes to use Pathfinder to deliver supplies to the moon.
Frame 2
Exact date: To be determined
organize: space exploration technologies corp.
Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 5
Launch location: Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
The Fram2 mission is a crewed mission that will carry five passengers around the Earth’s poles. During the five-day mission, the crew will conduct the first human X-rays in space and further study how spaceflight affects the human body. They will also study Steve, or Powerful thermal emission speed enhancementa band of hot gas that lights up the night sky similar to northern lights. Cast members include Wang Chun, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Eric Philips and Rabea Rogge.
April
Axiom Space Mission 4
Exact date: To be determined
organize: SpaceX / Axiom Space Company
Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 5
Launch location: Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
Axiom Space Mission 4 will send four people to the International Space Station, where they will stay for a little more than a week. The crew includes retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Indian astronaut Shubhon Shukla, Polish engineer Slawos Uznanski and Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapp.
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EWSOD-1
Exact date: To be determined
organize: Northrop Grumman Space Systems
Rocket: Minotaur No. 4
Launch location: SFB Vandenberg, California
EWS OD-1 task will be deployed Photoelectric/infrared weather system Entering low-Earth orbit serves as a technology demonstration to allow various branches of the U.S. military to evaluate its performance as a Department of Defense weather satellite.
June
USSF-106
Exact date: To be determined
organize: United Launch Alliance
Rocket: Vulcan VC4S
Launch location: Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
this is a The mission of the U.S. Space Force. it will deploy NTS-3 navigation satellite together with NASA’s SunRISE mini satellitewhich will study solar activity. Other payloads are planned for this launch but have not yet been announced.
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One of Blue Origin’s largest launch events of the year is planned for June.
Exact date: To be determined
organize: Blue Origin/NASA
Rocket: new glen
Launch location: Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
this Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorer (EscaPADE) The mission, a joint venture between Blue Origin and NASA, will send scientific tools to Mars to study our red neighbor. The instruments will study the transport of solar wind energy through the Martian magnetosphere. This is one of Blue Origin’s biggest releases of the year.
July
Crew 11
Exact date: To be determined
organize: SpaceX/NASA
Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 5
Launch location: Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
The Crew-11 flight will carry four more astronauts to the International Space Station in July 2025. Currently, the exact launch date has not been determined, Neither did the crew.. However, it will be like the Crew-10 launch, in which four astronauts will go to the International Space Station to conduct research and replace the previous astronauts.
September
STP-S29A
Exact date: TBD
organize: Northrop Grumman Space Systems/U.S. Department of Defense
Rocket: Minotaur No. 4
Launch location: SFB Vandenberg, California
The STP-S29A is quite a task News from the U.S. Department of Defense said that Northrop Grumman will launch multiple technology demonstrations into low Earth orbit. The payload includes a 200kg CubeSat – very small satellite ——For testing purposes. also, STPSat-7 It will also be deployed to track and catalog orbital debris.
September
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will take off in June 2024.
IMAP
Exact date: To be determined
organize: SpaceX/NASA
Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 5
Launch location: Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
The IMAP mission, a joint venture between SpaceX and NASA, will deploy the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, another instrument that measures how the solar wind affects things in and around Earth. this The probe contains 10 instruments Take various measurements. In addition, the mission will house a small lunar orbiter called Lunar Pathfinder. solar sail called solar cruiser and a weather satellite that studies ultraviolet emissions from Earth’s exosphere.
October
TIS-2
Exact date: To be determined
organize: SpaceX/NASA
Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 5
Launch location: Cape Canaveral, Florida
this Total Solar Irradiance and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor 2 is a NASA probe that will measure the energy input from the sun to the Earth through solar irradiance measurements. The data will be added to decades of other NASA data related to the sun to better understand how much energy is hitting Earth from the sun. TSIS-1 is located on the International Space Station and measures similar standards from there.
