CosmosRocket
FR · EN Tracking
Edition of 16 October 2026

The sky,
in real time.

Every orbital lift-off on the planet, tracked minute by minute. Countdowns, launch windows, missions, agencies, pads — the full machinery of global spaceflight in one place.

81 Scheduled lift-offs 24 Last 30 days 31 Agencies tracked 14 Active countries
Manifest · Upcoming

The orbital
calendar.

T-0 (UTC) Mission Site Vehicle Status
19 October UTC10:30 UTC Falcon 9Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare) Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
USA
Falcon 9
SpaceX
Go
19 October UTC19:41 UTC H3-24Martian Moon eXplorer (MMX) Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
JPN
H3-24
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Go
20 October UTC22:14 UTC Falcon 9Starlink Group 15-15 Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
USA
Falcon 9
SpaceX
Go
21 October UTC03:35 UTC Ceres-1SUnknown Payload Haiyang Oriental Spaceport
CHN
Ceres-1S
Galactic Energy
Go
24 October UTC05:29 UTC Falcon 9Starlink Group 15-16 Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
USA
Falcon 9
SpaceX
Go
21 October UTC05:00 UTC Electron6x HawkEye 360 Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
NZL
Electron
Rocket Lab
TBC
22 October UTC02:00 UTC Long March 8AUnknown Payload Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
CHN
Long March 8A
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
TBC
Dispatch

The international
wire.

SpaceNews15 October at 20:41 UTC

Oct. 29: Applying AI to the GEOINT Mission

Join us for a conversation on how machine learning is transforming the GEOINT mission across different markets The post Oct. 29: Applying AI to the GEOINT Mission appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA15 October at 19:58 UTC

NASA to Help Unlock Mysteries of Mars’ Moons in Upcoming Mission

NASA is playing an important role in JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, to advance our understanding of Mars’ moons and build on the agency’s long history of exploring the Red Planet. The mission aims to characterize and determine the origin of Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos and deliver a sample […]

NASA15 October at 17:59 UTC

NASA Satellites Observe Historic 2026 El Niño

A phenomenon rarer than a solar eclipse and more powerful than any single storm system is unfolding this fall, and NASA is tracking it closely. El Niño is a natural climate pattern that emerges roughly every two to seven years marked by warmer-than-normal water temperatures in parts of the equatorial Pacific. NASA scientists are keeping […]

81Upcoming launches
currently scheduled
24Successful lift-offs
in the last 30 days
31Agencies and operators
currently tracked
14Countries hosting
at least one active pad