Oman’s Etlaq spaceport, on the coast near Duqm, is where European launch firms now plan to fly. PLD Space and Latitude have signed up for 2027, and HyImpulse is looking at it. Nothing has gone to orbit from it.
0
orbital launches from Oman in 2026, to 2 October
6
dated promises of orbital launches from Etlaq; none has come due yet
€1.2m
paid-in capital of the spaceport’s operator, a quarter of it from state-majority Omantel
2027
the year now given for the first orbital launch
Checked 8 October 2026
Launch sites
Two rockets have flown from Etlaq, neither to orbit: a sounding rocket on 5 December 2024 and a 4.3 m test rocket on 2 October 2026. Five launches were promised for 2025. One was tried, in July 2025, and did not ignite.
Etlaq Spaceport, Duqm
- What happened
- Run by Etlaq Services, which is 75% owned by the private NASCOM and 25% by Omantel. No permanent orbital pad has been built yet.
European firms that plan to fly from here
PLD Space
- Status
- no orbital flight
- Public money
- €114m, plus €159m in a Launcher Challenge contract for future launches
- Private money
- €349m
- Promised
- a first flight to orbit in 2020, said in 2016 to 2017
- Delivered
- MIURA 1 flew suborbital on 7 October 2023; MIURA 5 is now promised for the first half of 2027
Latitude
- Status
- no orbital flight
- Public money
- €15.0m
- Private money
- €38.2m
- Promised
- a first flight to orbit in 2024, said in December 2020
- Delivered
- no flight; the first is now planned from Etlaq in Oman, late 2027
HyImpulse
- Status
- no orbital flight
- Public money
- €35.0m
- Private money
- €65.0m
- Promised
- a first flight to orbit in 2024, said in July 2022
- Delivered
- SR75 flew suborbital on 1 May 2024; the orbital target is now 2027
Etlaq has a government mandate, a site on the coast and signed deals with European launch firms. The first orbital launches from it are set for 2027.
Money from company accounts, public registers and ESA contracts; promises from the statements on our company and spaceport pages; launch counts from Jonathan McDowell’s launch log of 7 October 2026. Every figure is on the page it comes from.