Rocket Launch Schedule – Upcoming Launches Worldwide with Countdowns

Rocket launch schedule: what is launching today and next

This rocket launch schedule lists the next orbital launches from every spaceport in the world, each with a live countdown, the launch window, the status and links to the official webcast. Launches from ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota have their own India filter, alongside SpaceX, Rocket Lab, China, Russia, Europe and Japan. Times can be shown in your own time zone, in IST or in UTC.

The schedule comes live from Launch Library 2, a free public database kept by The Space Devs that space news sites and apps also use. It is loaded straight from your browser, saved on your device for 20 minutes, and the page shows exactly when it was fetched. If the data cannot be loaded, the page says so and shows nothing rather than an old or invented list.

How to use the Rocket Launch Schedule

1. Open the page. The schedule loads by itself, or press Refresh if it says the data is old.
2. Choose My time, IST or UTC for the launch times.
3. Tap a country chip such as India (ISRO) or USA, search for a rocket or mission, or tick Only launches with a webcast link.
4. Watch the countdown on each card and the next-launch counter at the top. Press Add to calendar to save a launch as an .ics event, or open the webcast or pad map.

Rocket Launch Schedule features

How to read a launch time

Launch times are given as NET, “no earlier than”. A launch can slip by minutes for weather or a technical hold, or by days or weeks for bigger problems, so the time on the card is the latest estimate, not a promise. Each launch also has a precision. A time to the minute usually means a fixed window. A date with “time not yet set”, or only a month, means the launch is still being planned, and for those the page shows no countdown.

The window is the span in which the rocket can lift off. Launches to the space station or to a particular orbit often have an instantaneous window: one exact second each day. The status badge comes from the database. Go means the launch is confirmed, TBC (to be confirmed) and TBD (to be determined) mean the date is still uncertain, and Hold, Success and Failure mean what they say. Launches from the last few hours stay in the list with their result.

Rocket launches in India

India’s orbital launches fly from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota island in Andhra Pradesh, about 80 km north of Chennai. It is near the equator, and rockets launch eastward over the Bay of Bengal. ISRO flies the PSLV, GSLV, LVM3 and SSLV, and Indian private companies are developing their own rockets. ISRO usually announces dates a few weeks ahead and streams launches on its website and YouTube channel. The India filter shows every launch Launch Library 2 lists from Indian sites. If one is missing, it has not been entered in the database yet.

Where the data comes from

Launch Library 2 is published by The Space Devs. Its free tier allows 15 requests per hour from one network without a key. To respect that limit this page makes at most one request each time you open it, and none if the copy saved on your device is less than 20 minutes old. If the limit has been reached, or you are offline, the page tells you when it will try again. Times are converted to your zone by your browser. To see what a launch does physically, try the rocket equation calculator and the orbital period calculator. To watch the space station fly over, use the ISS pass predictor.