This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2027. In 2027, NASA is expected to launch the

Artemis III Artemis III is planned to be the first crewed Moon landing mission of the Artemis program and the first crewed flight of the Starship HLS lander. Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed Artemis mission and the first crewed lunar landing ...

mission, which will land astronauts near the

south pole of the Moon The lunar south pole is the southernmost point on the Moon. It is of interest to scientists because of the occurrence of water ice in permanently shadowed areas around it. The lunar south pole region features craters that are unique in that t ...

. It is expected to be the first mission to land humans on the Moon since 1972. NASA also plans to launch the first two components of the

Lunar Gateway The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a planned space station which is to be assembled in orbit around the Moon. The Gateway is intended to serve as a communication hub, science laboratory, and habitation module for astronauts as part ...

, a key part of its efforts to return to the Moon and a stepping stone for crewed missions to Mars in the 2030s. The first Indian crewed spaceflight,

Gaganyaan-4 Gaganyaan-4 (from Sanskrit: , "celestial" and , "craft, vehicle") will be the first crewed test flight of the Gaganyaan programme, with launch planned for 2027. Mission The mission is planned to demonstrate human spaceflight capability by send ...

, is planned for 2027. China plans to launch the eXTP X-ray observatory. A

DARPA The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Adva ...

program aims to launch the

Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) was a planned spaceflight demonstration mission under the joint auspices of DARPA, NASA, Lockheed Martin, and BWX Technologies, aiming to demonstrate nuclear thermal propulsion in ...

nuclear thermal rocket A nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) is a type of thermal rocket where the heat from a nuclear reaction replaces the chemical energy of the rocket propellant, propellants in a chemical rocket. In an NTR, a working fluid, usually liquid hydrogen, is ...

. The

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (shortened as the Roman Space Telescope, Roman, or RST) is a NASA infrared space telescope in development and scheduled to launch to a Sun–Earth L2 orbit by May 2027. It is named after former NASA Chie ...

aims to launch.

Orbital launches

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Suborbital flights

Deep-space rendezvous

Extravehicular activities (EVAs)

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 Soyuz2 (; GRAU index: 14A14) is a Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicle and the seventh major iteration of the Soyuz rocket family. Compared to its predecessors, Soyuz-2 features significant upgrades, including improved engines and ...

is a Russian rocket.

By rocket

By family

By type

By configuration

By spaceport

By orbit

Expected maiden flights

Vega-E Vega (, , ) was a European expendable small-lift launch vehicle developed by Avio and operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Designed to carry payloads between into Low Earth orbit, low ...

–

Arianespace Arianespace SA is a French company founded in March 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It operates two launch vehicles: Vega C, a Small-lift launch vehicle, small-lift rocket, and Ariane 6, a Medium-lift launch vehicl ...

– Europe * VLM-1 –

IAE IAE or Iae may refer to: *Institut d'Administration des Entreprises, graduate schools of management in France *International Aero Engines *IAE Universidad Austral, the Management and Business School of the Universidad Austral * Spanish Institute of ...

– Brazil * Daytona II –

Phantom Space Corporation Phantom Space Corporation is an American space transportation and rocket manufacturing startup based in Tucson, Arizona. Company history Phantom Space Corporation was founded in 2019 by Jim Cantrell and Michael D'Angelo. Chris Thompson, th ...

– USA

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