NASA

Why NASA is not in the operator filter

The launch schedule filters by operator: the organisation that owns the rocket and runs the count. NASA is usually the customer — it funds the mission and builds the payload, then buys the ride, so the flight is filed under the operator’s name and NASA never enters that filter. It is not missing from this site; it is simply not the party flying.

How this list is built: a scheduled launch counts as a NASA mission when the string “NASA” or “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” appears in its launch name, mission name, operator name or programme. Mission descriptions are not searched, and the window is one batch of the next launches worldwide, reaching to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z. A NASA payload filed under a mission name that does not carry the agency’s name will not appear here, so treat this as a floor, not a complete NASA manifest.

NASA missions on the manifest

NASA’s flight record

These are launches flown under NASA’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library register. They are not a count of NASA missions: a payload that flew on a contracted vehicle is credited to the operator that flew it.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA feeds running on this site

Two NASA feeds update on Delta-V without anyone pressing anything: the Astronomy Picture of the Day, and the NeoWs close-approach list of objects passing near Earth today. Both run in full on the live console.

Picture of the day

NASA/APOD

2026-10-11

NASA Science

Scientists are melting holes in the bottom of the world. In fact, almost 100 holes melted near the South Pole are now being used as an astronomical observatory. Astronomers with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory lowered a long string knotted with basketball-sized light detectors into each vertical lake. The water in each hole soon refreezes. The detectors attached to the strings are sensitive to blue light emitted in the surrounding clear ice. Such light results from fast-moving secondary particles liberated when high-energy neutrinos emitted by powerful processes out in the universe collide with ice molecules. IceCube has now detected many illuminating neutrinos. Pictured in 2010, one of the last of IceCube's detector strings is lowered into the freezing abyss, making IceCube the largest neutrino detector ever created. In recognition of unprecedented discoveries, it was announced earlier this week that a founding leader of the IceCube Collaboration will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.Tomorrow's picture: Moons Planet

CREDIT: NASA // PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Near-Earth objects

NASA/NEOWS

3 TODAY

• 2017 HE49
  Miss distance21,280,369 km

  In lunar distances55.36 LD

  Diameter48–108 m

  Relative speed25,274 km/h

  Closest approach2026-Oct-11 22:53
• 2009 SB170
  Miss distance63,325,076 km

  In lunar distances164.74 LD

  Diameter182–407 m

  Relative speed145,639 km/h

  Closest approach2026-Oct-11 00:20
• 2011 PU1
  Miss distance64,600,557 km

  In lunar distances168.06 LD

  Diameter20–45 m

  Relative speed22,146 km/h

  Closest approach2026-Oct-11 21:47

Lunar distance uses the Moon’s mean range, 384,400 km, purely as a scale reference. NASA marks an object “potentially hazardous” from its size and how close its orbit passes to Earth’s — it is a watch-list category, not a prediction that anything will strike.

Full feed on the live console

Common questions

Does NASA launch its own rockets?

Both, and the register keeps the two apart. It credits NASA with 142 launches flown under its own name, so NASA is on record as a launch operator. A launch is filed under the organisation that owns the rocket and runs the count, so a mission NASA funds, builds and buys a ride for is filed under the operator that flies it, not under NASA. No mission naming NASA is inside the current manifest window, so there is no live split to report.

When is NASA's next launch?

No launch naming NASA falls inside Delta-V's current manifest window, which reaches to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z. The register lists 5 scheduled launches under NASA's own name, with dates further out or not yet filed.

Why is NASA missing from the launch operator filter?

Because that filter lists the operator of each scheduled flight — the organisation that owns the rocket and runs the count. NASA usually buys the launch instead of flying it, so the mission is filed under the operator's name and NASA never enters the filter. This page and NASA's register entry are where its record lives instead.

What is NASA's launch record?

142 launches flown under its own name: 122 successful and 20 failed, a lifetime success rate of 85.9%, with 5 scheduled. Figures are from The Space Devs' Launch Library register and count launches filed under NASA's own name, not missions or payloads it flew on somebody else's vehicle.

What is NASA's budget?

Delta-V does not publish a figure for NASA's budget: it is not part of the launch data this page is built from, and a number that cannot be sourced should not be printed. NASA publishes its own budget requests and enacted appropriations on nasa.gov. What this page can state from the register is the flight record above.

What NASA data does Delta-V show live?

Two NASA feeds run on the live console: the Astronomy Picture of the Day, and the NeoWs close-approach list of objects passing near Earth today with their miss distances, diameters and relative speeds. Launch times come from The Space Devs' Launch Library rather than from NASA directly.