MOST RECENT LAUNCHES

This is a listing of the most recent launched satellites, ordered by launch date.

All 2026 launches

Name	Description	Launched
QPS-SAR-20	QPS-SAR-20, named “WADATSUMI-II,” is a Japanese small synthetic-aperture-radar Earth-observation satellite developed and operated by the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc.	November 2, 2026
NVS-03	NVS-03 is an Indian next-generation navigation satellite built and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for NavIC, India’s regional satellite navigation system.	October 30, 2026
YAOGAN-50 03		October 23, 2026
HAWK-16A	HAWK 16A is one spacecraft in HawkEye 360’s Cluster 16, a three-satellite low-Earth-orbit signals-intelligence mission launched by Rocket Lab on Electron in October 2026 to expand HawkEye 360’s commercial radio-frequency sensing constellation.	October 23, 2026
HAWK-16B	HAWK 16B is a HawkEye 360 Cluster 16 small satellite operated by HawkEye 360 as part of its commercial radio-frequency sensing and signals-intelligence constellation; flying in a three-satellite cluster, its purpose is to detect, geolocate, and characterize RF emissions from low Earth orbit for applications such as maritime tracking, GNSS jamming detection, radar monitoring, communications mapping, space-defense support, and government defense and security missions.	October 23, 2026
HAWK-16C	HAWK 16C is one of HawkEye 360’s Cluster 16 small satellites, part of the company’s low-Earth-orbit Hawk constellation for space-based radio-frequency signal collection and geolocation.	October 23, 2026
SIRIUS-B	SIRIUS-B is a Singaporean low-Earth-orbit technology satellite built by ST Engineering and based on the company’s Sirius satellite bus.	October 20, 2026
FOSSASAT2E27	FOSSASAT-2E27 is a small Spanish FossaSat-series spacecraft associated with FOSSA Systems’ low-power satellite IoT program, intended to provide or demonstrate store-and-forward/LoRa-style connectivity for remote sensors and devices where terrestrial networks are unavailable.	October 20, 2026
MAXWELL	MAXWELL is a Viasat communications-technology demonstration spacecraft for NASA’s Communications Services Project, intended to prove that commercial satellite networks can provide on-demand, low-latency relay services for low-Earth-orbit missions as NASA transitions away from its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system.	October 20, 2026
W-SERIES 7	W-SERIES 7, also called W-7, is a Varda Space Industries W-Series free-flying orbital production spacecraft and reentry capsule launched on October 20, 2026, for a pharmaceutical-processing mission focused on testing whether microgravity can produce useful crystal forms of a PROTAC, a class of experimental cancer-drug molecules that can be difficult to formulate because of poor crystallinity and manufacturability on Earth; its purpose is to explore whether space-based crystallization can improve drug-development pathways and support Varda’s broader goal of routine orbital manufacturing and return of materials from low Earth orbit.	October 20, 2026
PTS-1	PTS-1 is a Xona Space Systems low-Earth-orbit navigation test satellite associated with the company’s Pulsar positioning, navigation, and timing constellation.	October 20, 2026
STARBURST-1	STARBURST-1 is a low-Earth-orbit technology-demonstration spacecraft developed by Portal Space Systems, which also appears to be its operator.	October 20, 2026
T-MICROSAT-4	T MICROSAT-4 is a Taiwanese 8U CubeSat in Tron Future Tech’s T.	October 20, 2026
T-MICROSAT-3	T MICROSAT-3 is a Taiwanese 8U CubeSat in the T.	October 20, 2026
TOMORROW-S15	TOMORROW-S15 is a Tomorrow.	October 20, 2026
TOMORROW-S14	TOMORROW-S14, also called Tomorrow Microwave Sounder 14, is a small 6U weather satellite in Tomorrow.	October 20, 2026
CAPELLA-22 (ACADIA)	CAPELLA-22 is an Acadia-series commercial Earth-observation satellite developed, built, and operated by Capella Space as part of its synthetic-aperture radar imaging constellation; launched in October 2026 as Acadia-12, its mission is to collect high-resolution radar imagery of Earth for on-demand monitoring and intelligence applications, with SAR allowing imaging through clouds, smoke, and darkness rather than depending on daylight or clear weather.	October 20, 2026
UMBRA-14	UMBRA-14 is a commercial Earth-observation satellite in Umbra’s growing X-band synthetic-aperture radar constellation, intended to collect very high-resolution radar imagery of Earth’s surface for applications such as land monitoring, sea-ice and maritime observation, disaster response, environmental monitoring, mapping, and government or commercial geospatial intelligence.	October 20, 2026
UMBRA-13	UMBRA-13 is a low-Earth-orbit satellite in Umbra’s commercial synthetic-aperture radar Earth-observation constellation, carrying an Umbra SAR payload intended to collect high-resolution radar imagery independent of daylight and through cloud cover.	October 20, 2026
PELICAN-12 3013	PELICAN-12 3013 is an updated second-generation Pelican high-resolution commercial Earth-observation satellite developed and operated by Planet Labs PBC as part of its Pelican constellation, the planned successor to Planet’s SkySat high-resolution imaging system.	October 20, 2026
GNOMES-11	GNOMES-11 is a PlanetiQ commercial weather and space-weather microsatellite in the GNSS Navigation and Occultation Measurement Satellites constellation, built with Muon Space as mission partner and carrying PlanetiQ’s Pyxis GNSS radio-occultation payload to measure how GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou signals bend through Earth’s atmosphere and ionosphere.	October 20, 2026
ICEYE-X110		October 20, 2026
ICEYE-X109		October 20, 2026
ICEYE-X88		October 20, 2026
ICEYE-X84		October 20, 2026
HAWK-15C	HAWK-15C is one of three Hawk-15 small satellites in HawkEye 360’s commercial low-Earth-orbit constellation, launched as part of the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission; its mission is space-based radio-frequency collection, geolocation, and analytics, supporting civil signal-intelligence-style applications such as monitoring maritime, air, and land transportation, mapping RF activity, identifying interference for spectrum users, and aiding emergency-beacon detection.	October 20, 2026
HAWK-15B	HAWK-15B is one of HawkEye 360’s Cluster 15 small satellites, part of the company’s commercial low-Earth-orbit radio-frequency sensing and signals-intelligence constellation.	October 20, 2026
HAWK-15A	HAWK-15A is one of HawkEye 360’s Hawk Cluster 15 small satellites, built for commercial radio-frequency signals-intelligence collection in low Earth orbit.	October 20, 2026
CAPELLA-21 (ACADIA)	CAPELLA-21, also referred to by Capella as C-21 or Acadia-11, is an Acadia-class commercial Earth-observation satellite built and operated by Capella Space, now an IonQ company, to expand Capella’s low-Earth-orbit synthetic-aperture-radar imaging constellation.	October 20, 2026
FRG-100D4	FRG-100D4 is a 160 kg Turkish technology-demonstration satellite developed by Fergani Space Technologies, a company founded by Baykar chairman and CTO Selçuk Bayraktar, and operated by Fergani Space.	October 20, 2026
SIRIUS-A	SIRIUS-A is a Singaporean low-Earth-orbit technology demonstration satellite built on ST Engineering’s Sirius satellite bus; public sources identify ST Engineering as both the developer/manufacturer and operator.	October 20, 2026
IMPULSE-4 MIRA	IMPULSE-4 MIRA is a Mira orbital transfer vehicle developed and operated by Impulse Space for its LEO Express 4 mission, a low-Earth-orbit flight intended to expand the vehicle’s flight heritage in a mid-inclination orbit and demonstrate responsive, maneuverable in-space operations.	October 20, 2026
PULSAR-004	PULSAR-004 is one of Xona Space Systems’ Pulsar low-Earth-orbit navigation satellites, intended to help deploy an early commercial positioning, navigation, and timing service rather than perform Earth imaging or communications.	October 20, 2026
PULSAR-003	PULSAR-003 is one of Xona Space Systems’ early Pulsar low-Earth-orbit navigation satellites, part of a commercial constellation intended to provide precise, resilient positioning, navigation, and timing services that complement or offer an alternative to traditional GNSS such as GPS.	October 20, 2026
PULSAR-002	PULSAR-002 is an early production satellite in Xona Space Systems’ Pulsar low-Earth-orbit navigation constellation, whose mission is to provide commercial positioning, navigation, and timing services that complement or back up traditional GNSS such as GPS with stronger, authenticated signals and high-precision timing/location performance.	October 20, 2026
PULSAR-001	PULSAR-001 is a low-Earth-orbit navigation satellite in Xona Space Systems’ Pulsar constellation, whose mission is to provide commercial positioning, navigation, and timing services as a resilient complement or alternative to traditional GNSS such as GPS.	October 20, 2026
MMX	MMX, or Martian Moons eXploration, is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency spacecraft developed and operated by JAXA to investigate Mars’s moons Phobos and Deimos, with international contributions including NASA’s MEGANE instrument and the Franco-German Idefix rover.	October 19, 2026
OSIRIS-E	OSIRIS-E is a German 3U CubeSat in Ethereal Space’s Solar Sentry Block 0 constellation, carrying a GNSS radio-occultation and precision-orbit-determination payload to observe the low-Earth-orbit space-weather environment.	October 1, 2026
MOI-1A	MOI-1A is an Indian low-Earth-orbit 6U CubeSat from TakeMe2Space, built as an “orbital computing” and Earth-observation mission intended to process data in space rather than simply downlink raw imagery.	October 1, 2026
FLOCK 4J 8		October 1, 2026
FLOCK 4J 6		October 1, 2026
FLOCK 4J 5		October 1, 2026
SIDLOC PQ-05	SIDLOC PQ-05 is a Greek 1P PocketQube from Libre Space Foundation’s SIDLOC program, launched as part of a group of small open-source spacecraft to demonstrate Spacecraft Identification and Localization: a low-power, direct-sequence spread-spectrum beacon method intended to let satellites be uniquely identified and localized through open ground stations, supporting faster early-orbit identification and independent space situational awareness.	October 1, 2026
HADES-L	HADES-L is a very small Spanish amateur-radio/technology-demonstration PocketQube operated by AMSAT-EA, with Jose Elias Diez EB1AO listed in frequency-coordination records as the responsible operator.	October 1, 2026
UNNE-1B	UNNE-1B, also known as HADES-E2, is a small Spanish amateur-radio satellite launched in October 2026 to provide FM voice and digital data relay services while supporting education and public participation in satellite communications.	October 1, 2026
NUSAT-64 (GLADYS WEST)	NUSAT-64 is a Satellogic ÑuSat/NewSat Earth-observation microsatellite, launched in October 2026 to expand Satellogic’s commercial constellation for high-cadence collection of high-resolution multispectral imagery and geospatial intelligence.	October 1, 2026
ERMINAZ-2U	ERMINAZ-2U is a German 1P PocketQube amateur-radio satellite developed and operated by AMSAT-DL, also known as AMSAT Deutschland e.	October 1, 2026
SIDLOC PQ-06	SIDLOC PQ-06 is a Greek PocketQube-class spacecraft developed and operated by the Libre Space Foundation as part of its SIDLOC, or Spacecraft Identification and Localization, effort.	October 1, 2026
ERMINAZ-2V	ERMINAZ-2V is a German 1P PocketQube amateur-radio satellite developed and operated by AMSAT-DL as part of the ERMINAZ multi-PocketQube mission, whose purpose is to promote and expand practical knowledge of amateur radio and space technology.	October 1, 2026
NIS-PQ	NIS-PQ, also called QUBIK-5, is a Kazakh 1P PocketQube built on Libre Space Foundation’s open-source QUBIK bus for a Nazarbayev Intellectual School in Astana, with involvement from Kazakhstan’s space-sector organizations; its purpose is primarily educational and experimental, giving students a real spacecraft to communicate with while helping build classroom-based national space capability.	October 1, 2026