2025 in spaceflight explained

Year:

2025

Spaceflight in 2025 promises to follow the 2020s trend of record breaking orbital launches and increased developments in lunar, Mars and low-earth orbit exploration.

NASA plans to launch the Artemis 2 mission on the Space Launch System, sending astronauts around the Moon on a ten-day lunar flyby.

ESA plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in the third quarter of the year.^[1]

The first Indian crewed spaceflight, Gaganyaan-4, is planned for 2025.

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

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.^[2] ^[3]

Kuiper Systems, Amazon’s satellite internet subsidiary, ramp up launches for its constellation of over 3,000 satellites. The launches will occur on Ariane 6, Vulcan Centaur and New Glenn launch vehicles.^[4]

Vast plans to launch the first ever commercial space station in 2025.^[5]

Blue Origin plans to launch their MK1 Lunar Lander as a "pathfinder" mission in 2025.^[6]

Orbital launches

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Suborbital flights

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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
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0	Includes Soyuz launches from Kourou
		0	0	0	0
World	0	0	0	0	-->

By rocket

By family

Family	Country	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
Atlas		0	0	0	0
Delta		0	0	0	0
	/	0	0	0	0	Includes Zenit
		0	0	0	0
H-II		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
Kuaizhou		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
R-7		0	0	0	0
R-36		0	0	0	0
Safir		0	0	0	0
Shavit		0	0	0	0
Universal Rocket		0	0	0	0
Vega		0	0	0	0	-->

By type

Rocket	Country	Family	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
Angara A5		Angara	0	0	0	0
Ariane 5		Ariane	0	0	0	0
Atlas V		Atlas	0	0	0	0
Delta II		Delta	0	0	0	0
Delta IV		Delta	0	0	0	0
Dnepr		R-36	0	0	0	0
Falcon 9		Falcon	0	0	0	0
		ILV	0	0	0	0
Kuaizhou		Kuaizhou	0	0	0	0
		ILV	0	0	0	0
H-IIA		H-II	0	0	0	0
		Long March	0	0	0	0
		Long March	0	0	0	0
		Long March	0	0	0	0
Proton		Universal Rocket	0	0	0	0
Safir		Safir	0	0	0	0
Shavit		Shavit	0	0	0	0
Soyuz		R-7	0	0	0	0
UR-100		Universal Rocket	0	0	0	0
Vega		Vega	0	0	0	0	-->

By configuration

Rocket	Country	Type	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
		Ariane 5	0	0	0	0
Atlas V 421		Atlas V	0	0	0	0
Atlas V 551		Atlas V	0	0	0	0
Delta II 7320		Delta II	0	0	0	0
Delta IV Medium+ (4,2)		Delta IV	0	0	0	0
		R-36	0	0	0	0
		Falcon 9	0	0	0	0
H-IIA 202		H-II	0	0	0	0
Long March 3C/YZ-1		Long March 3	0	0	0	0
		Proton	0	0	0	0
		PSLV	0	0	0	0
		UR-100	0	0	0	0
		Safir	0	0	0	0
		Soyuz	0	0	0	0
		Soyuz	0	0	0	0
		Soyuz	0	0	0	0
		Soyuz	0	0	0	0
		Vega	0	0	0	0	-->

By spaceport

Site	Country	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
Baikonur		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
Dombarovsky		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
Kennedy		0	0	0	0
Kourou		0	0	0	0
Mahia		0	0	0	0
MARS		0	0	0	0
Palmachim		0	0	0	0
Plesetsk		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
Semnan		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
Tanegashima		0	0	0	0
Uchinoura		0	0	0	0
Vandenberg		0	0	0	0
Vostochny		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0
		0	0	0	0	-->

By orbit

Orbital regime	Launches	Achieved	Not achieved	Accidentally achieved	Remarks
Transatmospheric	0	0	0	0
Low Earth	0	0	0	0
	0	0	0	0
Medium Earth	0	0	0	0
High Earth	0	0	0	0
Heliocentric orbit	0	0	0	0	Including planetary transfer orbits

Expected maiden flights

Cyclone-4M – Yuzhnoye – Ukraine
Gravity-2 – Orienspace – China
Hera-II – Astraius – UK
Hyperbola-3 – i-Space – China
Irtysh – TsSKB Progress – Russia – December 2025
Kinetica 2 – CAS Space – China - August 2025
Maia – MaiaSpace – Europe
Rocket Lab Neutron
Nova – Stoke Space – USA
Prime – Orbex – UK
SL1 – HyImpulse – Germany
Zhuque-3 – LandSpace – China
Daytona I – Phantom Space Corporation – USA^[7]

Notes and References

Web site: Richards . Bella . ESA's Space Rider likely to launch third quarter of 2025, program manager says . 26 August 2023 . 27 August 2023 . NASASpaceFlight.
Web site: Talbert. Tricia. 2021-01-08. NASA Extends Exploration for Two Planetary Science Missions. 2021-01-08. NASA.
Web site: NASA's Juno Mission Expands Into the Future. NASA.gov. January 13, 2021. January 14, 2021.
Web site: Rivera . Mikayla . 2024-01-17 . Project Kuiper: Amazon's Satellite Internet Provider . 2024-05-15 . SatelliteInternet.com . en-US.
Web site: Vast Space Station To Use SpaceX Starlink Laser Comms Aviation Week Network . 2024-05-13 . aviationweek.com.
Web site: Foust . Jeff . 2024-03-08 . Blue Origin aims to launch first lunar lander in 2025 . 2024-05-13 . SpaceNews . en-US.
Web site: Daytona I – Phantom Space . 2024-07-26 . en-US.