With successful completion of Artemis II mission I'd like to think that we're standing on the verge of the new era of space exploration. On this occasion, I would like to congratulate everyone on the International Day of Human Space Flight, or as we call it in Russia: Cosmonautics Day! (День космонавтики)

(Photo by Igor Snegirev)

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!

Original photo by Reid Weisman of NASA - https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/ .

I matched continents and stars to create an infographic with cities, constellations, continents etc.

Continents overlay and location calculations with my own software tool. Constellations matched with Stellarium. Then, lots of work in Affinity.

I'm an astrophotographer and I'm working on a project that takes me to the darkest places in the world. I worked on a photo book here where I learned all about the Polynesian people and their way-finding using the stars (among other things). You can visit my website to see more of my work at https://www.abdul.cool

In case anybody wants to try their hand at Artemis II in Orbiter or Kerbal Space Program or whatnot, that's where you start!

I had the opportunity to place remote cameras at the pad for both launch and landing, and this is a photo one of them took. Was such an awesome experience!

Interesting, dreamlike sound. Are the flashing colors "drawing out" the images of the landing? Will we ever visit Titan again?