Here’s a visual roundup of all the mission patches from March 2026 rocket launches, a monthly tradition I’ll keep sharing to track how these designs evolve over time.
March turned out to be a particularly busy month, with a wide variety of launches and a great mix of patch styles.
We saw contributions from smaller players like Space One, Firefly, Chinarocket, and CAS Space with their Kairos, Alpha, Jielong-3, and Kinetica-2 rockets. Rocket Lab flew three missions, while CASC added several patches across different Long March launches.
On the SpaceX side, EchoStar XXV was the only official patch released, while Transporter-16 featured two mission patches from Exolaunch and SEOPS.
If you're into mission patches, you might enjoy exploring this project: Space Patches: A Journey Through the Cosmos, a growing collection of free eBooks documenting patches, plus the recently launched “Patch of the Day” section—highlighting a different mission and its story every day.
Hope you enjoy this month’s collection, curious to hear which patch is your favourite!
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11 Comments
Wow! It looks like the design of mission patches has evolved into an art in it’s own right.
Is it known who designed these patches?
I think someone probably gets paid a little too much money to design mission patches.
I guess I’m ok with that. These are cool.
jeez the Chinese mission patches are so cool, I hope that becomes the new standard
That are quite a few missions that went up in such a short time. It’s crazy, when not regularly following the launch schedule how much is actually going on. 😅🙈
Stairway To Seven, in the font! Nice 🤘
The Chinese ones are the coolest.
Someday in the future when space travel has evolved beyond rocket engines, all the kids will think the first spaceships looked like dicks
This is really cool. I’m in university and one thing I love about scholars is there’s someone out there specializing in anything and everything. Even if it’s just a hobby I love to see someone keeping track of these designs and seeing how they change over time.
China has some pretty baller mission patches.
I had no idea that unmanned missions had a patch made
Chinese patches are cool but this just made me realise just how many launches china is conducting.