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2025 in spaceflight
Illustration of NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), scheduled to be launched in 2025.
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First4 January
Total1
Successes1
Failures0
Partial failures0
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Spaceflight in 2025 promises to follow the 2020s trend of record breaking orbital launches (with at least 300 expected) and increased developments in lunar, Mars and low-earth orbit exploration.

ESA plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in the third quarter of the year.

China plans to launch the Tianwen-2 (ZhengHe) asteroid sample-return and comet probe.

SpaceX expects to perform an in-space propellant transfer demonstration using two docked Starships in 2025—a critical milestone that will allow SpaceX to refuel their Starship HLS vehicle for an uncrewed lunar landing demonstration in the following year.

Kuiper Systems, Amazon’s satellite internet subsidiary, plans to ramp up launches for its constellation of over 3,000 satellites. The launches will occur on Falcon 9, Ariane 6, Vulcan Centaur and New Glenn launch vehicles.

Vast plans to launch the first ever commercial space station in 2025.

Blue Origin plans to launch their MK1 Lunar Lander as a "pathfinder" mission in 2025.

Orbital launches

Main articles: List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2025 and List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2025
Numbers of orbital launches
Month Total Successes Failures Partial failures
January 1 1 0 0
February TBD TBD TBD TBD
March TBD TBD TBD TBD
April TBD TBD TBD TBD
May TBD TBD TBD TBD
June TBD TBD TBD TBD
July TBD TBD TBD TBD
August TBD TBD TBD TBD
September TBD TBD TBD TBD
October TBD TBD TBD TBD
November TBD TBD TBD TBD
December TBD TBD TBD TBD
Total 1 1 0 0

Deep-space rendezvous

Date (UTC) Spacecraft Event Remarks
9 January BepiColombo Sixth gravity assist at Mercury
1 March Europa Clipper Gravity assist at Mars
March Hera Gravity assist at Mars Will conduct observations of the Martian moon Deimos
20 April Lucy Flyby of asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson Target altitude 922 km
31 August JUICE Gravity assist at Venus

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, Electron rockets launched from the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand are counted under the United States because Electron is an American rocket. For a launch attempt to be considered orbital it must be trying to achieve a positive perigee. Launches from the Moon are not included in the statistics.

Australia: 0China: 0Europe: 0India: 0Iran: 0Japan: 0North Korea: 0Russia: 0USA: 1
Country Launches Successes Failures Partial
failures 		Remarks
 United States 1 1 0 0 Includes Electron launches from Māhia
World 1 1 0 0

By rocket

1 2 3 4 5 Ariane Atlas Ceres Electron Falcon Firefly H-series ILV Jielong Long March New Glenn R-7 Starship Vega Vulcan Others

By family

Family Country Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks
Falcon  United States 1 1 0 0

By type

Rocket Country Family Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks
Falcon 9  United States Falcon 1 1 0 0

By configuration

Rocket Country Type Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks
Falcon 9 Block 5  United States Falcon 9 1 1 0 0

By spaceport

1 2 3 4 5 Australia China France India Iran Japan Kazakhstan New Zealand North Korea Russia United States
Site Country Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks
Cape Canaveral  United States 1 1 0 0
Total 1 1 0 0

By orbit

1 2 3 4 5 Transatmospheric Low Earth Medium Earth / Molniya Geosynchronous / Tundra / transfer High Earth / Lunar transfer Heliocentric
  •   Transatmospheric
  •   Low Earth
  •   Low Earth (ISS)
  •   Low Earth (CSS)
  •   Low Earth (SSO)
  •   Low Earth (polar)
  •   Medium Earth
  •   Molniya
  •   Geosynchronous
  •   High Earth
  •   Lunar transfer
  •   Heliocentric
  •  
Orbital regime Launches Achieved Not achieved Accidentally
achieved 		Remarks
Transatmospheric 0 0 0 0
Low Earth / Sun-synchronous 0 0 0 0 Including flights to ISS and Tiangong (CSS)
Geosynchronous / Tundra / GTO 1 1 0 0
Medium Earth / Molniya 0 0 0 0
High Earth / Lunar transfer 0 0 0 0
Heliocentric orbit / Planetary transfer 0 0 0 0
Total 0 0 0 0

Expected maiden flights

Rocket Origin Organization Launch Outcome Ref.
New Glenn  USA Blue Origin 8 January TBD
Eris Block 1  Australia Gilmour Space Technologies January TBD
Neutron  USA Rocket Lab July TBD
Kinetica 2  China CAS Space August TBD
Irtysh  Russia TsSKB Progress December TBD
Cyclone-4M  Ukraine Yuzhnoye Planned TBD
Daytona I  USA Phantom Space Corporation Planned TBD
Gravity-2  China Orienspace Planned TBD
Hera-II  UK Astraius Planned TBD
Hyperbola-3  China i-Space Planned TBD
Long March 8A  China China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology Planned TBD
Maia  Europe MaiaSpace Planned TBD
Nova  USA Stoke Space Planned TBD
Prime  UK Orbex Planned TBD
Pallas-1  China Galactic Energy Planned TBD
RFA One  Germany Rocket Factory Augsburg Planned TBD
Skyrora XL  UK Skyrora Planned TBD
SL1  Germany HyImpulse Planned TBD
Tianlong-3  China Space Pioneer Planned TBD
Zhuque-3  China LandSpace Planned TBD

Notes

References

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