2025 in spaceflight

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2025 in spaceflight

Illustration of NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), scheduled to be launched in 2025
Orbital launches
First	4 January
Last	14 May
Total	106
Successes	101
Failures	5
Partial failures	0
National firsts
Satellite	Botswana
Space traveller	Bahamas  Malta  Saint Kitts and Nevis
Rockets
Maiden flights	Long March 8A New Glenn Spectrum Starship Block 2
Retirements	Soyuz-2.1v / Volga
Crewed flights
Orbital	4
Orbital travellers	14
Suborbital	2
Suborbital travellers	12
Total travellers	26
EVAs	3
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Spaceflight in 2025 promises to follow the 2020s trend of record-breaking orbital launches (with at least 300 expected) and increased developments in lunar, Mars, and low-earth orbit exploration.