2025 in spaceflight

This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2025.

2025 in spaceflight
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is planned to be launched in 2025.

In 2025, NASA plans to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will have a field of view 100 times larger than that of the Hubble Space Telescope.[1]

Russia plans to launch the Spektr-UV (World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet), a space telescope that will be developed by multiple nations.

NASA's NEO Surveyor, scheduled to launch in 2025, is expected to be capable of detecting at least 90% of Near-Earth Objects larger than 140 meters (460 ft), a goal mandated by the US Congress in 2005.[2]

China aims to launch the eXTP X-ray obseravatory.[3]

As of 2021, the mission of the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter is targeted to end no later than September 2025. NASA has stated that the mission could end sooner depending on potential damage from the system's radiation belts during fly-bys of Europa in 2022, and Io in 2023 and 2024.[4][5]

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


February

February (TBD)[6] Falcon 9 Block 5 Cape Canaveral SLC-40 SpaceX
IMAP NASA Sun–Earth L1 Heliophysics 
GLIDE NASA Sun–Earth L1 Exosphere research 
Solar Cruiser NASA Sun–Earth L1 Technology demonstration 
SWFO-L1 NOAA Sun–Earth L1 Space weather 
Lunar Trailblazer[8] NASA / Caltech Selenocentric Lunar orbiter 
Part of the Solar Terrestrial Probes program. Under NASA's SMD Rideshare Initiative, multiple secondary spacecraft will be launched along with IMAP to the Sun–Earth L1 point.[9]

March

Q1 (TBD)[10][11] Soyuz-2.1a / Fregat Vostochny Site 1S Roscosmos
Kanopus-VO №2 Roscosmos Low Earth (SSO) Earth observation 


August

August (TBD)[12][13] Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat Baikonur Roscosmos
Luna 27 Roscosmos Selenocentric Lunar lander 

September

September (TBD)[14][15] Angara A5P Vostochny Site 1A Roscosmos
Orel Roscosmos Low Earth (ISS) Crewed flight test 
Crewed flight test of the Orel capsule going to the International Space Station.

October

23 October[16][17] Angara A5 / DM-03 Vostochny Site 1A Roscosmos
Spektr-UV[19] INASAN IGSO Ultraviolet astronomy 
October (TBD)[20][21] Commercial launch vehicle Cape Canaveral TBA
Roman Space Telescope NASA Sun–Earth L2 Infrared astronomy 
Formerly known as WFIRST.[1]


December

Q4 (TBD)[22] TBA TBA TBA
CO2M 1 (Sentinel-7A) ESA Low Earth (SSO) Earth observation 
CO2M 2 (Sentinel-7B) ESA Low Earth (SSO) Earth observation 
Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission.[23] Part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme.

To be determined

2025 (TBD)[24][25] Angara A5 / DM-03[26] Plesetsk Roscosmos
Luch-5M 1[28] Gonets Satellite System Geosynchronous Communications 
2025 (TBD)[29][30] Ariane 64[31] Kourou ELA-4 Arianespace
MTG-I2[33] EUMETSAT Geosynchronous Meteorology 
2025 (TBD)[34] Ariane 6 Kourou ELA-4 Arianespace
Skynet-6A Airbus Defence and Space / UK Ministry of Defence Geosynchronous Military communications 
2025 (TBD)[35] Long March 7 Wenchang LC-2 CASC
eXTP[3] CAS Low Earth X-ray astronomy 
Chinese-led X-ray astronomy collaboration between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and multiple European institutions.[35]
2025 (TBD)[36][37] New Glenn Cape Canaveral LC-36 Blue Origin
Axiom Hub 2 (AxH2) Axiom Space Low Earth (ISS) ISS assembly / Commercial habitat 
Second Axiom module to be launched, nominally on New Glenn (with Falcon Heavy as backup).[38]
2025 (TBD)[39][40] Soyuz-2.1a / Fregat Baikonur Roscosmos
Rezonans-MKA Roscosmos Tundra Magnetospheric research 
2025 (TBD[41][42] Soyuz ST-B / Fregat-M or Vega Kourou ELS or ELV Arianespace
MERLIN[44] CNES / DLR Low Earth (SSO) Earth observation of atmospheric methane 
2025 (TBD)[45] Soyuz-6 Baikonur Site 1/5 Roscosmos
TBA Roscosmos Low Earth Flight test 
First flight of the Soyuz-6.
2025 (TBD)[46] Vega-C Kourou ELV Arianespace
ClearSpace-1 ClearSpace SA (EPFL) Low Earth Space debris removal 
ClearSpace-1 will capture and de-orbit the Vespa payload adapter that deployed PROBA-V in 2013.
2025 (TBD)[47] Vega-C Kourou ELV Arianespace
e.Deorbit[48] ESA Low Earth Satellite servicing
Space debris removal		 
2025 (TBD)[49] Vega-E Kourou ELV Arianespace
TBA ESA Low Earth Flight test 
First flight of Vega-E.
2025 (TBD)[50][51] TBA TBA TBA
NEO Surveyor NASA Sun–Earth L1 Infrared astronomy
Near-Earth object detection		 
Near-Earth Object Surveillance Mission (NEOSM).
2025 (TBD)[52] TBA TBA TBA
Sentinel-6B NASA / NOAA / Eumetsat / ESA Low Earth Earth observation 

Suborbital flights

Deep-space rendezvous
Date (UTC) Spacecraft Event Remarks
9 January BepiColombo Sixth gravity assist at Mercury
5 December BepiColombo Hermocentric orbit insertion at Mercury

Extravehicular activities (EVAs)
Start Date/Time Duration End Time Spacecraft Crew Remarks

Orbital launch statistics

By country

For the purposes of this section, the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. For example, Soyuz launches by Arianespace in Kourou are counted under Russia because Soyuz-2 is a Russian rocket.

Country Launches Successes Failures Partial
failures		 Remarks

By rocket

By family

Family Country Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks

By type

Rocket Country Family Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks

By configuration

Rocket Country Type Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks

By spaceport

Site Country Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks

By orbit

Orbital regime Launches Achieved Not achieved Accidentally
achieved		 Remarks
Transatmospheric0000
Low Earth0000
Geosynchronous / transfer0000
Medium Earth0000
High Earth0000
Heliocentric orbit0000Including planetary transfer orbits

Notes

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