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This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2024, including launches planned for 2024 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2024 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2024, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2024.
For the fourth year in a row, new world records were set for both orbital launch attempts and successful orbital launches. The year featured successful maiden launches of Vulcan Centaur, Gravity-1, Long March 12, Ariane 6 (partially successful), and notably more developmental launches of SpaceX's Starship, including the first ever landing on Flight 5.
The 2024 list and lists for subsequent years contain planned launches, but statistics only include past launches. For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line , the FAI -recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL) .
Maiden flight of Taiwan's first orbital launch vehicle, Siraya (西拉雅). [24] 2030 (TBD) [26] Soyuz-2.1a / Fregat: Vostochny Site 1S: Roscosmos: RBKA №2 Roscosmos / Belarus: Low Earth: Earth observation RBKA will follow in the footsteps of BKA (Belarusian Satellite) launched along with Kanopus-V 1 and several other satellites in July 2012 ...
Second of five launches for DAPA 425 Project (425 Project Flight 2). 9 April 16:53 [139] Delta IV Heavy: D-389 Cape Canaveral SLC-37B: ULA: Orion 12 / Mentor 10 [140] NRO: Geosynchronous: Reconnaissance : In orbit: Operational NROL-70 Mission. Final Delta IV Heavy launch, and final launch of the Delta rocket family. 10 April 05:40:00 [141 ...
China LandSpace became a private company with orbital launch capability by successfully launched Zhuque-2, world's first methane-fueled rocket to reach orbit, on July 12, 2023. [26] China Orienspace was the fifth private company in China to reach orbit after the successful maiden launch of Gravity-1 on January 11, 2024. [27]
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2025, including launches planned for 2025 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2025 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2025, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2025.
For the third year in a row, new world records were set for both orbital launch attempts (223) and successful orbital launches (211). The growth in orbital launch cadence can in large part be attributed to SpaceX , as they increased their number of launches from 61 in 2022 to 98 in 2023.