Launch week: October 19 - 25, 2026

Eight launches are dated inside the October 19 – 25, 2026 UTC week: one Mars sample-return mission, three Falcon 9 flights, an Electron and three Chinese rockets. 1 2

The headline is JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration, which leaves Tanegashima on Monday evening and brings a piece of Phobos back to Earth in 2031.

One entry has already moved: SpaceX pushed Bandwagon-5 from Monday to Tuesday this morning, and most trackers still show the old date.

All times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). NET marks a date that has not been fixed, meaning no earlier than; TBD marks a field nobody has announced.

Quick schedule

UTC date and window	Mission and vehicle	Operator	Launch site and pad	Payload and destination	Status and webcast
Oct 19, 19:41 Single liftoff time	Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) H3-24L	JAXA, with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, Yoshinobu LA-Y2	MMX sample-return spacecraft to a Mars transfer orbit, carrying the CNES/DLR rover Idefix and two NASA instruments; a minimum of 10 grams of Phobos returns to Earth in 2031	On schedule. The 10th H3 flight. JAXA's livestream opens at 18:45 UTC on YouTube. 3 4 5
Oct 20, 10:30 Window opens 10:30, closes 11:30; backup Oct 21, same hour	Bandwagon-5 Falcon 9 Block 5	SpaceX	Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, SLC-40	32 rideshare payloads to a mid-inclination low Earth orbit, among them SpaceX's second Starfall reentry vehicle; booster B1085 flies for the 19th time	Delayed one day, moved off October 19 for recovery weather. Next Spaceflight, RocketLaunch.Live and Space Launch Schedule still carried October 19 when this list was written. Webcast about 15 minutes before liftoff on SpaceX's mission page. 6 7 8
Oct 20, 22:14 Window opens 22:14, closes Oct 21, 02:14	Starlink Group 15-15 Falcon 9 Block 5	SpaceX	Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, SLC-4E	27 Starlink V2-mini satellites to low Earth orbit; booster B1063 flies for the 36th time and lands on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You	On schedule. Webcast about 10 minutes before liftoff on SpaceX's mission page. 2 9 10
Oct 21, 03:35 Window 03:29 to 03:50	Unknown payload Ceres 1S	Galactic Energy	Haiyang Oriental Spaceport, China, on the Rizhao offshore platform	Undisclosed. The tracker's own note suggests the Xiguang-4 01 Earth-observation satellite. The 24th Ceres 1 flight	Payload unconfirmed. No webcast listed. 11
Oct 21, 05:00 Window 05:00 to 08:45 on Next Spaceflight; Rocket Lab lists the time as TBD	We're Not Hawking Around Electron	Rocket Lab	Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, Launch Complex 1	Three Hawk-15 satellites for HawkEye 360 to a 520-kilometre sun-synchronous orbit at 97 degrees; the 98th Electron launch	Date set, hour still TBD. Livestream opens about 30 minutes before liftoff on Rocket Lab's live-stream page. 2 12 13
Oct 22, 02:57 Window 02:50 to 03:15	Unknown payload Long March 8A	CASC	Wenchang Space Launch Site, China, Commercial LC-1	Undisclosed; the 12th Long March 8A flight and the sixth this year	Payload and mission identity unconfirmed. No webcast listed. 14
Oct 23, 19:25 Window 19:17 to 19:39	Unknown payload Long March 4B	CASC	Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, Site 94	Undisclosed; the 59th Long March 4B flight and the third this year	Unconfirmed. The tracker marks the vehicle and the payload as extremely uncertain. No webcast listed. 15
Oct 24, 05:29 Window 05:29 to 09:29	Starlink Group 15-16 Falcon 9 Block 5	SpaceX	Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, SLC-4E	27 Starlink V2-mini satellites; booster B1082 flies for the 26th time and lands on Of Course I Still Love You	On schedule. Webcast about 10 minutes before liftoff on SpaceX's mission page. 16 17

Nothing is dated for Sunday, October 25 on any list checked. 1 18 19

Mission cards

MMX: the first attempt to bring back a piece of a Mars moon

JAXA targets 19:41:03 UTC on Monday for the tenth H3, lifting off from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at Tanegashima. JAXA publishes a single liftoff time here. 2 3

MMX takes about a year to reach Mars, then enters a quasi-satellite orbit around Phobos for close observation. It lands twice: the rover first, then the main spacecraft. 20

The spacecraft must collect at least 10 grams of Phobos material and bring it home, with the capsule recovered in Australia in 2031. Arrival at Mars is expected in August 2027. 5 20

Thirteen instruments fly, two of them NASA's. The MEGANE spectrograph, built by Johns Hopkins APL, measures neutrons and gamma rays from the surface to work out the moon's chemistry. 4 5

The other is the Pneumatic Sampler, mounted on a landing leg and built by Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company. It fires bursts of nitrogen at the surface to lift loose material. 4

NASA will curate about 15% of the returned sample at Johnson Space Center. NASA and ESA both provide deep-space communications support. 4 5

JAXA's MMX trajectory plan showing the spacecraft and Phobos at left, an Earth-to-Mars transfer orbit and Mars-to-Earth transfer orbit around the Sun, and an inset of the Martian sphere with three Mars orbit insertion burns plus Phobos and Deimos orbits — JAXA's published trajectory plan: an Earth-to-Mars transfer, then three orbit-insertion burns labelled MOI-1 to MOI-3 before Phobos co-orbit insertion. The diagram carries no dates; arrival at Mars is expected in August 2027 and the sample back on Earth in 2031. 5 20

JAXA's livestream begins at 18:45 UTC, 56 minutes before liftoff, with updates on X at @JAXA_EN and @mmx_jaxa_en. 5 21

Bandwagon-5: 32 payloads, a reentry capsule and a one-day slip

SpaceX now targets 10:30 UTC on Tuesday for a one-hour window from SLC-40, with a backup opportunity on Wednesday at the same hour. 6

At 07:27 UTC on Monday, SpaceX said it had moved the flight off October 19 because of unfavorable recovery weather. 7

Next Spaceflight, RocketLaunch.Live and Space Launch Schedule still showed Monday at 10:30 UTC when this list was written. 8 18

SpaceX counts 32 payloads — cubesats, microsats and reentry vehicles. Next Spaceflight counts 31. The two counts differ by a single satellite. 6 8

Deployment begins 57 minutes after liftoff and runs about 12 minutes. Starfall then separates at T+2 hours 48 minutes. 6

Starfall is SpaceX's capsule for returning experiments from orbit, roughly 2.1 tonnes with 1,000 kilograms of payload capacity. This is its second demonstration flight. 8

Booster B1085 flies for the 19th time and lands on A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic. Its past missions include Crew-9, Fram2 and 10 Starlink flights. 6

A SpaceX Falcon 9 with its payload fairing stands upright on Space Launch Complex 40 at night, lit by pad spotlights between lightning towers, with the Moon visible at upper right — The Falcon 9 for Bandwagon-5 on Space Launch Complex 40, in the photograph SpaceX published with the mission page. The vehicle puts 32 payloads on a mid-inclination orbit and lands its first stage on a droneship in the Atlantic. 6

Two Starlink batches, and the 700th Falcon 9

Starlink Group 15-15 opens a four-hour window at 22:14 UTC on Tuesday, closing at 02:14 on Wednesday with 27 V2-mini satellites aboard. 9 10

Booster B1063 flies for the 36th time, after DART, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, Transporter-7, SDA-0B and 26 earlier Starlink missions. It lands on Of Course I Still Love You. 10

Starlink Group 15-16 follows on Saturday with a window from 05:29 to 09:29 UTC, 27 more satellites and booster B1082 on its 26th flight. 16 17

Satellites deploy about 62 minutes after liftoff on both flights. Both warn that Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties may hear sonic booms. 10 17

Next Spaceflight numbers them the 699th and 700th Falcon 9 missions, and SpaceX's 122nd and 123rd launches of 2026. 9 16

Rocket Lab's 98th Electron carries three signals satellites south

Rocket Lab lists We're Not Hawking Around for NET October 21, with the launch time still TBD on its own mission page. 12

Next Spaceflight gives a window from 05:00 to 08:45 UTC, which is early evening at Māhia. Treat the hour as provisional until Rocket Lab publishes one. 13

Three Hawk-15 satellites fly for HawkEye 360, whose clusters of three geolocate radio-frequency signals for maritime tracking and jamming detection. The target orbit is 520 kilometres at 97 degrees. 12

This is the 98th Electron launch and the 19th of 2026, and Rocket Lab's livestream opens about 30 minutes before liftoff. 12 13

Two more Electrons are dated after this week: The Sea God Surveys for iQPS no earlier than November 4 and The Mountain God Rises no earlier than November 10. 22

Three Chinese flights, none with a payload statement

Galactic Energy flies a Ceres 1S from an offshore platform at Haiyang at 03:35 UTC on Wednesday. The payload is undisclosed; Next Spaceflight suggests the Xiguang-4 01 Earth-observation satellite. 11

CASC then flies a Long March 8A from Wenchang's Commercial LC-1 at 02:57 UTC on Thursday, and a Long March 4B from Jiuquan's Site 94 at 19:25 UTC on Friday. 14 15

Both CASC entries carry warnings from the tracker: payload and vehicle identity uncertain for the 8A, the vehicle and payload extremely uncertain for the 4B. Neither lists a webcast. 14 15

No other source checked names these two payloads or gives them a stream, so plan around the time and pad only. 1 19

Watch priorities

MMX's liftoff, Monday at 19:41 UTC. This is the only flight this week that leaves Earth's neighbourhood, and JAXA's stream opens at 18:45 UTC. 5
Bandwagon-5's Starfall separation, Tuesday at about 13:18 UTC. Two hours 48 minutes after a 10:30 UTC liftoff, the reentry capsule leaves the second stage on its second demonstration. 6
Starlink Group 15-15's deployment, Tuesday at about 23:16 UTC. Twenty-seven satellites release just over an hour after liftoff. 10
Rocket Lab's 98th Electron, Wednesday from about 04:30 UTC. The stream opens half an hour before the published window, which starts at 05:00 UTC. 12
Starlink Group 15-16's deployment, Saturday at about 06:31 UTC. Twenty-seven more satellites, 62 minutes after liftoff. 17

Operator tracking notes

NASA. Its part in this week rides on MMX: two instruments, Deep Space Network support and a share of the returned sample. No NASA launch of its own falls inside the week. 1 4
ESA. Nothing European is dated inside the week. The next European flight is Ariane 64's VA271 with 36 Amazon Leo satellites on November 23, then MetOp-SG B1 on an Ariane 62 and a Vega C with IRIDE satellites, both in December. 2 23
SpaceX. Three Falcon 9 flights fall inside the window, and all three of last week's flew: Starlink 15-25 and CRS SpX-35 on October 13, USSF-481 on October 16. 1 18
Rocket Lab. One flight this week, its 98th Electron, covered above. No second Electron is dated before November 4. 22
Blue Origin. New Glenn has not flown since NG-3 on April 19, and the NG-4 vehicle and its upper stage were destroyed in a static-fire explosion at Launch Complex 36 on May 28. 24
Blue Origin's queue. Wikipedia's forward listings put Blue Ring 1 in December 2026 and the first Amazon Leo batch in the first quarter of 2027; RocketLaunch.Live still names a Eutelsat mission with no date. Spaceflight Now reported on October 16 that Blue Origin will add Florida launch pads to raise New Glenn's flight rate. 24 25 26
ISRO. NVS-03 has no fixed date, so it stays out of the table. A report published on Monday says ISRO is still weighing whether to launch with its oxidiser-line pyro valve open, after NVS-02 failed to raise its orbit in 2025. 27
ISRO's fleet. The government told Parliament in July that three NavIC satellites were providing positioning and timing, against the four needed for basic positioning. ISRO's own launch table lists completed flights only, most recently GSLV-F17 with EOS-05 on September 4. 27 28
ISRO's queue. Its next listed flight is an SSLV with AayulSAT-1A, given as October with no day, followed by the uncrewed Gaganyaan-1 test on an LVM-3 in November. 1
Suborbital. Nothing is dated inside the week. Wikipedia lists two NASA Black Brant IX flights from Poker Flat and an Esrange Black Brant V for October, all without days. 19

References

1
Next Spaceflight - current launch manifest
nextspaceflight.com
2
Spaceflight Now - Launch schedule
spaceflightnow.com
3
Next Spaceflight - Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)
nextspaceflight.com
4
NASA - NASA to Help Unlock Mysteries of Mars' Moons in Upcoming Mission
science.nasa.gov
5
SpacePolicyOnline - What's Happening in Space Policy October 18-24, 2026
spacepolicyonline.com
6
SpaceX - Bandwagon-5 Mission
spacex.com
7
SpaceX on X - Bandwagon-5 retargeted to October 20
x.com
8
Next Spaceflight - Bandwagon-5
nextspaceflight.com
9
Next Spaceflight - Starlink Group 15-15
nextspaceflight.com
10
SpaceX - Starlink Mission
spacex.com
11
Next Spaceflight - Unknown Payload (Ceres 1S)
nextspaceflight.com
12
Rocket Lab - We're Not Hawking Around
rocketlabusa.com
13
Next Spaceflight - We're Not Hawking Around
nextspaceflight.com
14
Next Spaceflight - Unknown Payload (Long March 8A)
nextspaceflight.com
15
Next Spaceflight - Unknown Payload (Long March 4B)
nextspaceflight.com
16
Next Spaceflight - Starlink Group 15-16
nextspaceflight.com
17
SpaceX - Starlink Mission
spacex.com
18
RocketLaunch.Live - launch schedule
rocketlaunch.live
19
Wikipedia - List of spaceflight launches in October–December 2026
en.wikipedia.org
20
JAXA - MMX mission overview
mmx.jaxa.jp
21
JAXA - MMX and H3 F10 launch livestream
youtube.com
22
Rocket Lab - Launches
rocketlabusa.com
23
European Spaceflight - European Rocket Launch Schedule 2026
europeanspaceflight.com
24
Wikipedia - List of New Glenn launches
en.wikipedia.org
25
RocketLaunch.Live - Blue Origin schedule
rocketlaunch.live
26
Spaceflight Now - Blue Origin to add new Florida launch pads, seeks aggressive increase in New Glenn flight rate
spaceflightnow.com
27
The Hindu BusinessLine - An 'open or shut' case dogging the launch of a navigation satellite
thehindubusinessline.com
28
ISRO - Launch Missions
isro.gov.in

Eight launches are dated inside the October 19 – 25, 2026 UTC week: one Mars sample-return mission, three Falcon 9 flights, an Electron and three Chinese rockets. 1 2

The headline is JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration, which leaves Tanegashima on Monday evening and brings a piece of Phobos back to Earth in 2031.

One entry has already moved: SpaceX pushed Bandwagon-5 from Monday to Tuesday this morning, and most trackers still show the old date.

All times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). NET marks a date that has not been fixed, meaning no earlier than; TBD marks a field nobody has announced.

Quick schedule

UTC date and window	Mission and vehicle	Operator	Launch site and pad	Payload and destination	Status and webcast
Oct 19, 19:41 Single liftoff time	Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) H3-24L	JAXA, with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, Yoshinobu LA-Y2	MMX sample-return spacecraft to a Mars transfer orbit, carrying the CNES/DLR rover Idefix and two NASA instruments; a minimum of 10 grams of Phobos returns to Earth in 2031	On schedule. The 10th H3 flight. JAXA's livestream opens at 18:45 UTC on YouTube. 3 4 5
Oct 20, 10:30 Window opens 10:30, closes 11:30; backup Oct 21, same hour	Bandwagon-5 Falcon 9 Block 5	SpaceX	Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, SLC-40	32 rideshare payloads to a mid-inclination low Earth orbit, among them SpaceX's second Starfall reentry vehicle; booster B1085 flies for the 19th time	Delayed one day, moved off October 19 for recovery weather. Next Spaceflight, RocketLaunch.Live and Space Launch Schedule still carried October 19 when this list was written. Webcast about 15 minutes before liftoff on SpaceX's mission page. 6 7 8
Oct 20, 22:14 Window opens 22:14, closes Oct 21, 02:14	Starlink Group 15-15 Falcon 9 Block 5	SpaceX	Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, SLC-4E	27 Starlink V2-mini satellites to low Earth orbit; booster B1063 flies for the 36th time and lands on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You	On schedule. Webcast about 10 minutes before liftoff on SpaceX's mission page. 2 9 10
Oct 21, 03:35 Window 03:29 to 03:50	Unknown payload Ceres 1S	Galactic Energy	Haiyang Oriental Spaceport, China, on the Rizhao offshore platform	Undisclosed. The tracker's own note suggests the Xiguang-4 01 Earth-observation satellite. The 24th Ceres 1 flight	Payload unconfirmed. No webcast listed. 11
Oct 21, 05:00 Window 05:00 to 08:45 on Next Spaceflight; Rocket Lab lists the time as TBD	We're Not Hawking Around Electron	Rocket Lab	Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, Launch Complex 1	Three Hawk-15 satellites for HawkEye 360 to a 520-kilometre sun-synchronous orbit at 97 degrees; the 98th Electron launch	Date set, hour still TBD. Livestream opens about 30 minutes before liftoff on Rocket Lab's live-stream page. 2 12 13
Oct 22, 02:57 Window 02:50 to 03:15	Unknown payload Long March 8A	CASC	Wenchang Space Launch Site, China, Commercial LC-1	Undisclosed; the 12th Long March 8A flight and the sixth this year	Payload and mission identity unconfirmed. No webcast listed. 14
Oct 23, 19:25 Window 19:17 to 19:39	Unknown payload Long March 4B	CASC	Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, Site 94	Undisclosed; the 59th Long March 4B flight and the third this year	Unconfirmed. The tracker marks the vehicle and the payload as extremely uncertain. No webcast listed. 15
Oct 24, 05:29 Window 05:29 to 09:29	Starlink Group 15-16 Falcon 9 Block 5	SpaceX	Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, SLC-4E	27 Starlink V2-mini satellites; booster B1082 flies for the 26th time and lands on Of Course I Still Love You	On schedule. Webcast about 10 minutes before liftoff on SpaceX's mission page. 16 17

Nothing is dated for Sunday, October 25 on any list checked. 1 18 19

Mission cards

MMX: the first attempt to bring back a piece of a Mars moon

JAXA targets 19:41:03 UTC on Monday for the tenth H3, lifting off from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at Tanegashima. JAXA publishes a single liftoff time here. 2 3

MMX takes about a year to reach Mars, then enters a quasi-satellite orbit around Phobos for close observation. It lands twice: the rover first, then the main spacecraft. 20

The spacecraft must collect at least 10 grams of Phobos material and bring it home, with the capsule recovered in Australia in 2031. Arrival at Mars is expected in August 2027. 5 20

Thirteen instruments fly, two of them NASA's. The MEGANE spectrograph, built by Johns Hopkins APL, measures neutrons and gamma rays from the surface to work out the moon's chemistry. 4 5

The other is the Pneumatic Sampler, mounted on a landing leg and built by Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company. It fires bursts of nitrogen at the surface to lift loose material. 4

NASA will curate about 15% of the returned sample at Johnson Space Center. NASA and ESA both provide deep-space communications support. 4 5

JAXA's livestream begins at 18:45 UTC, 56 minutes before liftoff, with updates on X at @JAXA_EN and @mmx_jaxa_en. 5 21

Bandwagon-5: 32 payloads, a reentry capsule and a one-day slip

SpaceX now targets 10:30 UTC on Tuesday for a one-hour window from SLC-40, with a backup opportunity on Wednesday at the same hour. 6

At 07:27 UTC on Monday, SpaceX said it had moved the flight off October 19 because of unfavorable recovery weather. 7

Next Spaceflight, RocketLaunch.Live and Space Launch Schedule still showed Monday at 10:30 UTC when this list was written. 8 18

SpaceX counts 32 payloads — cubesats, microsats and reentry vehicles. Next Spaceflight counts 31. The two counts differ by a single satellite. 6 8

Deployment begins 57 minutes after liftoff and runs about 12 minutes. Starfall then separates at T+2 hours 48 minutes. 6

Starfall is SpaceX's capsule for returning experiments from orbit, roughly 2.1 tonnes with 1,000 kilograms of payload capacity. This is its second demonstration flight. 8

Booster B1085 flies for the 19th time and lands on A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic. Its past missions include Crew-9, Fram2 and 10 Starlink flights. 6

Two Starlink batches, and the 700th Falcon 9

Starlink Group 15-15 opens a four-hour window at 22:14 UTC on Tuesday, closing at 02:14 on Wednesday with 27 V2-mini satellites aboard. 9 10

Booster B1063 flies for the 36th time, after DART, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, Transporter-7, SDA-0B and 26 earlier Starlink missions. It lands on Of Course I Still Love You. 10

Starlink Group 15-16 follows on Saturday with a window from 05:29 to 09:29 UTC, 27 more satellites and booster B1082 on its 26th flight. 16 17

Satellites deploy about 62 minutes after liftoff on both flights. Both warn that Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties may hear sonic booms. 10 17

Next Spaceflight numbers them the 699th and 700th Falcon 9 missions, and SpaceX's 122nd and 123rd launches of 2026. 9 16

Rocket Lab's 98th Electron carries three signals satellites south

Rocket Lab lists We're Not Hawking Around for NET October 21, with the launch time still TBD on its own mission page. 12

Next Spaceflight gives a window from 05:00 to 08:45 UTC, which is early evening at Māhia. Treat the hour as provisional until Rocket Lab publishes one. 13

This is the 98th Electron launch and the 19th of 2026, and Rocket Lab's livestream opens about 30 minutes before liftoff. 12 13

Two more Electrons are dated after this week: The Sea God Surveys for iQPS no earlier than November 4 and The Mountain God Rises no earlier than November 10. 22

Three Chinese flights, none with a payload statement

CASC then flies a Long March 8A from Wenchang's Commercial LC-1 at 02:57 UTC on Thursday, and a Long March 4B from Jiuquan's Site 94 at 19:25 UTC on Friday. 14 15

Both CASC entries carry warnings from the tracker: payload and vehicle identity uncertain for the 8A, the vehicle and payload extremely uncertain for the 4B. Neither lists a webcast. 14 15

No other source checked names these two payloads or gives them a stream, so plan around the time and pad only. 1 19

Watch priorities

MMX's liftoff, Monday at 19:41 UTC. This is the only flight this week that leaves Earth's neighbourhood, and JAXA's stream opens at 18:45 UTC. 5
Bandwagon-5's Starfall separation, Tuesday at about 13:18 UTC. Two hours 48 minutes after a 10:30 UTC liftoff, the reentry capsule leaves the second stage on its second demonstration. 6
Starlink Group 15-15's deployment, Tuesday at about 23:16 UTC. Twenty-seven satellites release just over an hour after liftoff. 10
Rocket Lab's 98th Electron, Wednesday from about 04:30 UTC. The stream opens half an hour before the published window, which starts at 05:00 UTC. 12
Starlink Group 15-16's deployment, Saturday at about 06:31 UTC. Twenty-seven more satellites, 62 minutes after liftoff. 17

Operator tracking notes

NASA. Its part in this week rides on MMX: two instruments, Deep Space Network support and a share of the returned sample. No NASA launch of its own falls inside the week. 1 4
ESA. Nothing European is dated inside the week. The next European flight is Ariane 64's VA271 with 36 Amazon Leo satellites on November 23, then MetOp-SG B1 on an Ariane 62 and a Vega C with IRIDE satellites, both in December. 2 23
SpaceX. Three Falcon 9 flights fall inside the window, and all three of last week's flew: Starlink 15-25 and CRS SpX-35 on October 13, USSF-481 on October 16. 1 18
Rocket Lab. One flight this week, its 98th Electron, covered above. No second Electron is dated before November 4. 22
Blue Origin. New Glenn has not flown since NG-3 on April 19, and the NG-4 vehicle and its upper stage were destroyed in a static-fire explosion at Launch Complex 36 on May 28. 24
Blue Origin's queue. Wikipedia's forward listings put Blue Ring 1 in December 2026 and the first Amazon Leo batch in the first quarter of 2027; RocketLaunch.Live still names a Eutelsat mission with no date. Spaceflight Now reported on October 16 that Blue Origin will add Florida launch pads to raise New Glenn's flight rate. 24 25 26
ISRO. NVS-03 has no fixed date, so it stays out of the table. A report published on Monday says ISRO is still weighing whether to launch with its oxidiser-line pyro valve open, after NVS-02 failed to raise its orbit in 2025. 27
ISRO's fleet. The government told Parliament in July that three NavIC satellites were providing positioning and timing, against the four needed for basic positioning. ISRO's own launch table lists completed flights only, most recently GSLV-F17 with EOS-05 on September 4. 27 28
ISRO's queue. Its next listed flight is an SSLV with AayulSAT-1A, given as October with no day, followed by the uncrewed Gaganyaan-1 test on an LVM-3 in November. 1
Suborbital. Nothing is dated inside the week. Wikipedia lists two NASA Black Brant IX flights from Poker Flat and an Esrange Black Brant V for October, all without days. 19

References

1
Next Spaceflight - current launch manifest
nextspaceflight.com
2
Spaceflight Now - Launch schedule
spaceflightnow.com
3
Next Spaceflight - Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)
nextspaceflight.com
4
NASA - NASA to Help Unlock Mysteries of Mars' Moons in Upcoming Mission
science.nasa.gov
5
SpacePolicyOnline - What's Happening in Space Policy October 18-24, 2026
spacepolicyonline.com
6
SpaceX - Bandwagon-5 Mission
spacex.com
7
SpaceX on X - Bandwagon-5 retargeted to October 20
x.com
8
Next Spaceflight - Bandwagon-5
nextspaceflight.com
9
Next Spaceflight - Starlink Group 15-15
nextspaceflight.com
10
SpaceX - Starlink Mission
spacex.com
11
Next Spaceflight - Unknown Payload (Ceres 1S)
nextspaceflight.com
12
Rocket Lab - We're Not Hawking Around
rocketlabusa.com
13
Next Spaceflight - We're Not Hawking Around
nextspaceflight.com
14
Next Spaceflight - Unknown Payload (Long March 8A)
nextspaceflight.com
15
Next Spaceflight - Unknown Payload (Long March 4B)
nextspaceflight.com
16
Next Spaceflight - Starlink Group 15-16
nextspaceflight.com
17
SpaceX - Starlink Mission
spacex.com
18
RocketLaunch.Live - launch schedule
rocketlaunch.live
19
Wikipedia - List of spaceflight launches in October–December 2026
en.wikipedia.org
20
JAXA - MMX mission overview
mmx.jaxa.jp
21
JAXA - MMX and H3 F10 launch livestream
youtube.com
22
Rocket Lab - Launches
rocketlabusa.com
23
European Spaceflight - European Rocket Launch Schedule 2026
europeanspaceflight.com
24
Wikipedia - List of New Glenn launches
en.wikipedia.org
25
RocketLaunch.Live - Blue Origin schedule
rocketlaunch.live
26
Spaceflight Now - Blue Origin to add new Florida launch pads, seeks aggressive increase in New Glenn flight rate
spaceflightnow.com
27
The Hindu BusinessLine - An 'open or shut' case dogging the launch of a navigation satellite
thehindubusinessline.com
28
ISRO - Launch Missions
isro.gov.in

Launch week: October 19 - 25, 2026

Quick schedule

Mission cards

MMX: the first attempt to bring back a piece of a Mars moon

Bandwagon-5: 32 payloads, a reentry capsule and a one-day slip

Two Starlink batches, and the 700th Falcon 9

Rocket Lab's 98th Electron carries three signals satellites south

Three Chinese flights, none with a payload statement

Watch priorities

Operator tracking notes

References

Related content

Launch week: October 19 - 25, 2026

Quick schedule

Mission cards

MMX: the first attempt to bring back a piece of a Mars moon

Bandwagon-5: 32 payloads, a reentry capsule and a one-day slip

Two Starlink batches, and the 700th Falcon 9

Rocket Lab's 98th Electron carries three signals satellites south

Three Chinese flights, none with a payload statement

Watch priorities

Operator tracking notes

References

Related content