| Date |
Launcher |
Launch Site |
Notes |
| Satellite (Alternative Names) |
Orbit |
Notes |
| January |
| January |
Atlas V |
|
|
| ExoMars (Trace Gas Orbiter, EDM) |
|
|
| March |
| 8 March |
|
|
|
| InSight (Discovery 12) |
|
Mars lander |
| July |
| July |
|
|
|
| ICESat 2 |
|
|
| September |
| September |
|
|
|
| OSIRIS-REx |
|
asteroid sample return mission |
| October |
| 16 October |
Soyuz U |
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan |
|
| Progress M (ISS 65P) |
LEO |
unmanned cargo transport to the International Space Station |
| October |
Atlas V |
|
|
| MoonRise |
|
|
| November |
| 30 November |
Soyuz FG |
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan |
|
| Soyuz TMA ISS 49S |
LEO |
manned transport vessel to the International Space Station |
| During 2016 |
| ??? |
Long March 4C |
|
|
| CBERS 4B (ZY 1E2) |
|
|
| ??? |
Atlas 5 |
|
|
| CLS Comm I-9 |
|
|
| ??? |
Atlas 5 |
|
|
| CST-100 |
|
crewed flight |
| ??? |
Ariane 5ECA |
CSG Kourou, French Guiana |
|
| Echostar 19 (Jupiter 21) |
GEO |
commercial communication satellite |
| ??? |
Long March 2D |
|
|
| GaoFen 6 (GF 6) |
|
|
| ??? |
Atlas 5 |
|
|
| GPS 3A-02 |
|
US navigation satellite |
| ??? |
H-2A |
Tanegashima Space Centre, Japan |
|
| Himawari 9 |
|
meteorological satellite |
| ??? |
Ariane 5 |
CSG Kourou, French Guiana |
|
| Hylas 3 / EDRS B |
GEO |
commercial communication satellite (Hylas 3) carrying date relay hosted payload (EDRS B) |
| ??? |
|
|
|
| Intelsat 33E |
|
commercial communication satellite |
| ??? |
Falcon 9 |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA |
|
| Iridium-NEXT F3 |
|
commercial communication satellite |
| ??? |
Falcon 9 |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA |
|
| Iridium-NEXT F4 |
|
commercial communication satellite |
| ??? |
Falcon 9 |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA |
|
| Iridium-NEXT F5 |
|
commercial communication satellite |
| ??? |
Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat |
|
|
| Luna-Glob Orbiter (Luna 26) |
|
Russian lunar lander |
| ??? |
|
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida |
|
| MUOS 5 |
|
military communication satellite |
| ??? |
|
|
|
| Quantum Science Satellite |
|
|
| ??? |
Atlas 5 |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida |
|
| SBIRS-GEO 3 |
GEO |
US early warning satellite |
| ??? |
Long March 2F/H |
|
|
| Shenzhou 12 |
|
|
| ??? |
Vega |
CSG Kourou, French Guiana |
|
| SVOM (Space Multi-band Variable Object Monitor) |
|
|
| ??? |
Long March 2F/H |
|
|
| Tian Gong 3 |
|
|
| ??? |
|
|
|
| TPF (Terrestrial Planet Finder) |
|
|
| ??? |
|
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida |
|
| WGS 8 |
|
military communication satellite |
| ??? |
Proton M |
|
|
| World Space Observatory Ultraviolet (WSO-UV)(Spektr-UF) |
|
|
| ??? |
Atlas 5 |
|
|
| Worldview 4 |
|
earth observation satellite |
