2023 in spaceflight


This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2023.

Overview

In 2023, SpaceX plans to conduct a crewed lunar flyby with Yusaku Maezawa using the Starship, a crewed spacecraft being developed with partial funding from Maezawa. The flight, dubbed the #dearMoon project, will include six to eight artists invited as passengers.
NASA plans to launch the first two components of the Lunar Gateway, a key part of its efforts to return to the Moon and a stepping stone for crewed missions to Mars in the 2030s.

Orbital launches

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

November

December

To be determined

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 is a Russian rocket.
CountryLaunchesSuccessesFailuresPartial
failures		Remarks

By rocket

By family

By type

By configuration

By spaceport

By orbit