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!
by land4ever
4 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. 😅🙈