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2027 Milestones

236 announced milestones targeting 2027, soonest first. Each links to the company's page, with the full description and source.

  1. Jan 1, 2027Jonathan Poole becomes Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerVertex Pharmaceuticals
  2. Jan 2027Compete for Qingzhou cargo spacecraft launch selectionGalactic Energy
  3. Jan 2027Ax-5 private astronaut mission to the ISSAxiom Space
  4. Jan 20272027 wafer price increases take effectTSMC
  5. Feb 1, 2027Complete CEO transition to Guido OelkersBioNTech
  6. NET Q1 2027Blue Moon MK1 'Endurance' lunar demo missionBlue Origin
  7. Early 2027Bring Nova Pathfinder through its first flightStoke Space
  8. Feb 2027Scale to engineering-grade Zhuque-3 booster reuseLandSpace
  9. Early 2027Chang'e-7 and Tianwen sample-return missionsCASC
  10. Q1 2027-2028Advance suborbital space tourism vehicleCAS Space
  11. Q1 2027Fly the Kinastra-1 orbital transfer vehicleCAS Space
  12. Q1 2027Complete the Project Ascension reactor at INLAalo Atomics
  13. 2027Ramp 737 MAX to rate 52 via the Everett North LineBoeing
  14. Q1 2027Volvo VNL Autonomous goes fully driverlessAurora Innovation
  15. Q1-Q2 2027Demonstrate multi-vendor interconnectivity for the Space Force's Space Data NetworkAmazon Leo
  16. 2027Sustain launch cadence toward ~45 satellitesAST SpaceMobile
  17. Early 2027Turn on continuous US commercial direct-to-device serviceAST SpaceMobile
  18. Early 2027Ship the first Jony Ive-designed hardware deviceOpenAI
  19. Early 2027Award first Claude Frontier Deployed Engineer badgesAnthropic
  20. Q1-Q2 2027Scale Colossus toward 1 million GPUs / 2 GWxAI
  21. Q1 2027Complete the Hong Kong IPOMoonshot AI
  22. Early 2027Start FQ-44 Fury production once fiscal 2027 appropriations passAnduril Industries
  23. Feb 2027UK NHS Federated Data Platform break-clause decisionPalantir Technologies
  24. Q1 2027CA-1 Europa (CA-1KA) first flightHelsing
  25. Early 2027Scale Franklin and Austin output toward company production targetsSaronic
  26. Q1 2027Haven-1 launch on Falcon 9Vast
  27. Early 2027NASA CLD Phase 2 award decision (Haven-2 bid)Vast
  28. Early 2027Win a NASA CLD Phase 2 awardVoyager Technologies
  29. Early 2027Hit raised FY2026 revenue guidanceVoyager Technologies
  30. Q1 2027Bring the 50 GWh Stellantis joint venture in Spain onlineCATL
  31. Early 2027Perform the first refueling of a U.S. Space Force satelliteAstroscale
  32. FY2026 resultsConvert H1 run-rate into a full-year industrial printUBTECH Robotics
  33. Q1 2027Launch the remaining IHI Japan pairICEYE
  34. Q1 2027Launch Cerebras on Amazon BedrockCerebras Systems
  35. Early 2027Open the Yongin Phase 1 cleanroomSK hynix
  36. H1 2027Start Tesla Semi customer deliveries in EuropeTesla
  37. 1H 2027Reach run-rate gross-margin breakeven at about 500 trucksAurora Innovation
  38. First half of 2027Run-rate gross-margin breakeven at about 500 trucksAurora Innovation
  39. H1 2027Bring GreenMobility partnership to public service in DenmarkWeRide
  40. H1 2027Close the $500M acquisition of Resonant SciencesJoby Aviation
  41. H1 2027Fly the hybrid-electric Valo variantVertical Aerospace
  42. H1 2027Close the Hugging Face acquisitionNvidia
  43. H1 2027Fly Helios for the first timeImpulse Space
  44. H1 2027Debut Electra electric propulsion in spaceImpulse Space
  45. H1 2027Fly the VICTUS SURGO and VICTUS SALO responsive missionsImpulse Space
  46. H1 2027Start Digit 5 early accessAgility Robotics
  47. H1 2027Start Anthropic's first gigawatt of HeliosAMD
  48. Mar 31, 2027Pioneer 1 & 2 construction permit reviewHoltec International
  49. Spring 2027Orbital Reef: NASA CLD Phase 2 bidBlue Origin
  50. Spring 2027Open the Dayton innovation hubGeneral Atomics Aeronautical Systems
  51. Spring 2027NASA Commercial LEO Destinations Phase 2 awardAxiom Space
  52. Spring 2027Fly ISSA-J1 and inspect two satellites in different orbitsAstroscale
  53. 2027Reach the FY2027 revenue guidance and rebuild backlogAstroscale
  54. Spring 2027NASA CLD Phase 2 award (Orbital Reef bid)Sierra Space
  55. May 3, 2027Stand up VMware Explore 2027 and the Private AI Cloud stackBroadcom
  56. Q2 2027Close the Iridium Communications acquisitionRocket Lab
  57. Q2 2027Stand up the Hong Kong MTR air-rail shuttle and convert other HK trials to serviceBaidu Apollo
  58. Q2 2027Fly Trinity, the three-orbit demonstrationK2 Space
  59. 2027-2028Artemis lunar lander (HLS)SpaceX
  60. Construction 2027Start construction of Starbase LouisianaSpaceX
  61. 2027Open fourth launch pad at Kodiak, AlaskaRocket Lab
  62. 2027Demonstrate Space Data Network interoperability via PhotonRocket Lab
  63. 2027Blue Moon MK2 crewed lunar landing test and mission (Artemis III/IV, lander TBD)Blue Origin
  64. NET 2027Launch Blue Ghost Mission 2 and activate OculaFirefly Aerospace
  65. NET 2027Fly Eclipse for the first timeFirefly Aerospace
  66. 2027-2028Prove high-cadence reusable launch operationsStoke Space
  67. 2027+Scale launch cadence for constellationsSpace Pioneer
  68. 2027Scale Gravity-1 launch cadenceOrienspace
  69. 2027-2028Win a Qingzhou cargo launch award and develop Gravity-3Orienspace
  70. 2027First crewed suborbital tourism flightDeep Blue Aerospace
  71. 2027File for a STAR Market (科创板) IPOKuaizhou Aerospace
  72. 2027+Begin reusable launch services & constellation deploymentSpace Epoch
  73. 2027Yueqian-1 final assembly and maiden flightCosmoleap
  74. 2027Begin commercial Vikram-1 launchesSkyroot Aerospace
  75. 2027Demonstrate high-temperature petrochemical process heatNuScale Power
  76. 2027Complete the HI-TEST SMR-300 validation facility at Idaho National LaboratoryHoltec International
  77. 2027Blue Energy Texas gas-plus-nuclear plant - final investment decisionGE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy
  78. 2027-2028First fueled eVinci test at INL's DOME test bedWestinghouse Electric Company
  79. 2027AP300 NRC design certificationWestinghouse Electric Company
  80. 2027Generate power for a co-located data center at INL with CrusoeAalo Atomics
  81. Mid-2027Expand the Austin factory tenfold, then ramp to the one-million-square-foot Gigawatt FactoryAalo Atomics
  82. 2027Submit combined construction and operating license (COLA) application to the NRCAalo Atomics
  83. 2027Begin selling power on a test basisValar Atomics
  84. 2027SPARC first plasma and net energy (Q>1)Commonwealth Fusion Systems
  85. 2027-2028Begin Fujikura ARC HTS tape deliveriesCommonwealth Fusion Systems
  86. 2027-2028Stand up TAE Beam UK and deliver first short-pulse beamsTAE Technologies
  87. 2027-2028Complete the $52M ST40 upgrade and restart experimentsTokamak Energy
  88. 2027-2029Open the Users Program to outside researchersPacific Fusion
  89. 2027777-9 certification and first deliveryBoeing
  90. 2027Win MQ-25A Lot 2 low-rate productionBoeing
  91. Mid-2027Build SLS core stages for Artemis III-VBoeing
  92. 2027Run integrated ZEROe ground testingAirbus
  93. 2027Deliver U050 Capa-X systems to the French Navy and ArmyAirbus
  94. 2027+Continue Overture aircraft and certification pathBoom Supersonic
  95. 2027Deliver first Superpower turbines after Crusoe exitBoom Supersonic
  96. 2027-2028CJ-1000A domestic engine certificationCOMAC
  97. 2027Fly Ramjet-X integrated vehicle testsHermeus
  98. 2027Fly Quarterhorse with Anduril Lattice mission autonomyHermeus
  99. 2027Expand Mk 2.1 envelope toward Mach 3 by 2027Hermeus
  100. 2027Ship the 2026 Atlas production run to RMAC and DeepMind, then deliver to a first outside clientBoston Dynamics
  101. 2027Move RMAC into a roughly 10x HMGMA buildingBoston Dynamics
  102. 2027Ramp Tesla Semi out of the new Nevada high-volume lineTesla
  103. 2027Ship Apollo 3, the first true commercial productApptronik
  104. 2027Convert pilots into roughly $1B of ordersApptronik
  105. 2027Demonstrate solid-state battery technology in a vehicle in 2027BYD
  106. 2027Launch the first Europe heavy-duty truck and plan local truck productionBYD
  107. 2027Deploy the in-house Xring D100 smart-driving chipXiaomi EV
  108. 2027Enter the European market (Germany first)Xiaomi EV
  109. 2027Deliver the first Land Aircraft Carrier to customersXPeng
  110. Mid-2027Enter the Canadian market following the tariff-quota cutZeekr
  111. 2027Open fully driverless taxi service in TokyoWaymo
  112. 2027Advance toward driverless authority in CaliforniaAurora Innovation
  113. Mid-2027Complete Luxembourg Bolt/Stellantis year-long living-lab pilotPony.ai
  114. 2027+Open new markets in Australia, South Korea, Japan, and Southeast AsiaWeRide
  115. 2027Turn Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, and San Diego testing into rider serviceZoox
  116. 2027Scale manufacturing at Ohio and California facilitiesJoby Aviation
  117. 2027Advance the Anduril Thunder / Halo autonomous VTOL toward 2027 first flightArcher Aviation
  118. 2027Advance the MV250 to military exercises and productionBeta Technologies
  119. 2027Begin phased eIPP operations in TexasWisk Aero
  120. 2027Achieve VT35 type certificationEHang
  121. 2027Stand up commercial service on the Hainan-Guangdong cross-sea corridor with CSCECEHang
  122. 2027First Land Aircraft Carrier customer deliveriesAridge
  123. 2027Begin Middle East deliveries under the 600-unit GCC orderAridge
  124. 2027Launch commercial inter-island cargo operations in IndonesiaAutoFlight
  125. 2027-2028Begin commercial passenger air-taxi operationsAutoFlight
  126. 2027Stand up 2027 U.S. healthcare and restaurant drone servicesZipline
  127. 2027Launch Starlink Mobile and Sovereign Solutions with 4iG in EuropeStarlink
  128. 2027-2028Close the $11.57B Globalstar acquisition and integrate D2D capabilitiesAmazon Leo
  129. 2027-2028Execute Delta and JetBlue aviation deploymentsAmazon Leo
  130. 2027-2029Integrate OroraTech hosted payloads and stand up Global AKAREutelsat OneWeb
  131. 2027Scale to a 36-satellite operational trancheReflect Orbital
  132. 2027-2028Norovirus vaccine Phase 3 extended-cohort readoutModerna
  133. 2027Begin Phase 2 expansion of mRNA-4194 Lynch syndrome trialModerna
  134. 2027Read out CTX340 and CTX460 early clinical dataCRISPR Therapeutics
  135. 2027Mature individualized cancer-vaccine trialBioNTech
  136. 2027Advance toward a potential record IPOOpenAI
  137. Mid-2027Sustain enterprise-led growth past $40B+ ARROpenAI
  138. 2027Bring turbine-blade manufacturing in-house at a new Bastrop, Texas foundryxAI
  139. 2027Open the Borlänge, Sweden data centerMistral AI
  140. 2027Complete the migration to Nvidia Vera Rubin and land the 10x compute stepSafe Superintelligence
  141. 2027Hold the no-interim-product line as capital needs growSafe Superintelligence
  142. 2027Fly Lattice on Hermeus QuarterhorseAnduril Industries
  143. Mid-2027CCA Increment 1 autonomy down-select and software IOCAnduril Industries
  144. 2027NGC2 full-stack fielding to first two Army divisionsPalantir Technologies
  145. 2027First CFSN deliverables to GermanyHelsing
  146. 2027First orbital flight of ArcInversion Space
  147. 2027Fly hypersonic test payloads under MACH-TB 2.0Inversion Space
  148. 2027Deliver reentry hardware for Golden Dome interceptorsInversion Space
  149. 2027Demonstrate a hypersonic missile launch from an unmanned surface vesselSaronic
  150. 2027Double Taiwan staff after the NCSIST Hivemind expansionShield AI
  151. 2027Convert the Navy carrier CCA design study into a programGeneral Atomics Aeronautical Systems
  152. Mid-2027AxEMU Sortie Suit crewed demonstration readinessAxiom Space
  153. 2027Third orbital data center node (AxODC Node ISS) with SpacebiltAxiom Space
  154. 2027Vast-1: first crewed mission to Haven-1Vast
  155. 2027A16 volume productionTSMC
  156. 2027Meet near-doubled chipmaking-tool demand across ~20 simultaneous fab buildsTSMC
  157. 2027First High-NA production insertion: Intel 14A risk productionASML
  158. 2027Stand up the 2 GW Australia DSX AI factory buildoutNvidia
  159. 2027Install IonQ Superion 256 as first on-premise QPU at NVAQCNvidia
  160. 2027Move Debrecen from trial cells to series productionCATL
  161. Jun 2027Begin international TENER Sodium deliveriesCATL
  162. 2027Begin small-batch all-solid-state productionCATL
  163. 2027Begin Crusoe deliveries for AI data centersForm Energy
  164. 2027Go publicForm Energy
  165. 2027-2028Move LMR cells from lab protocol to EV-scale productLG Energy Solution
  166. Jun 2027Bring new Poland and Egypt storage factories onlineSungrow
  167. 2027Supply 4 GWh of storage to Egypt's Sustainable Energy ValleySungrow
  168. 2027Run the Anduril GEO rendezvous-and-proximity-operations demoImpulse Space
  169. 2027-2028Build and launch ADRAS-J2 to actually remove the rocket bodyAstroscale
  170. 2027Fly the first United Therapeutics formulation missionsVarda Space Industries
  171. 2027Launch Starcloud-2, the first commercial orbital data centerStarcloud
  172. 2027Sell GPU capacity from orbit through Crusoe CloudStarcloud
  173. 2027Bring Starcloud-2 to full commercial operation in sun-synchronous orbitStarcloud
  174. 2027Run at least four Spectrum flights in 2027Isar Aerospace
  175. 2027-2028Launch Astroscale's ADRAS-J2 debris-removal spacecraftIsar Aerospace
  176. 2027Produce electricity with Mark-1 at INLAntares Nuclear
  177. 2027-2028Run the R1-S nuclear ground demonstrationAntares Nuclear
  178. 2027-2028Stand up 50-reactor manufacturing at Antares PrimeAntares Nuclear
  179. 2027Ship 50,000 robots in 2027 without a return wave1X Technologies
  180. 2027-2028Deliver the ESA ARISE Earth Observation Governmental Service architecture studyICEYE
  181. 2027HXN-1001 Phase IIa ulcerative colitis readoutEarendil Labs
  182. 2027Print 2026 revenue against the doubling-or-better targetQuantum Systems
  183. 2027Launch Instinct MI500 and Helios 500AMD
  184. 2027Deploy 1.3 GW of OpenAI Jalapeno in 2027Broadcom
  185. 2027Scale Anthropic from 1 GW Ironwood to 5 GW of TPU v8iBroadcom
  186. 2027Stand up 600 MW of contracted capacity, including Mikkeli 165 MWCerebras Systems
  187. 2027More than triple revenue in 2027Cerebras Systems
  188. After 2027Advance CS-6 3D-stacked DRAMCerebras Systems
  189. 2027Start HBM4E volume productionSK hynix
  190. Jun 30, 2027Complete the NASA aerocapture demonstration studyInversion Space
  191. Jul 2027Bring the permanent 1.2 GW gas plant online; remove temporary Colossus turbinesxAI
  192. Summer 2027Win the CCA primary mission-autonomy selectionShield AI
  193. Summer 2027See which mission autonomy wins the CCA down-selectGeneral Atomics Aeronautical Systems
  194. Summer 2027Sixth ISS private astronaut mission (PAM-6)Vast
  195. Summer 2027PULSE P19 enters flight testQuantum Systems
  196. Aug 2027Bring LG Energy Solution's Lansing, Michigan LFP cells online for Megapack 3Tesla
  197. Q3 2027Arizona Fab 21 Phase 2 begins 3nm productionTSMC
  198. Aug 2027Start Tesla-specific LFP prismatic cell production at the Lansing, Michigan plantLG Energy Solution
  199. H2 2027Pallas-1 first-stage recovery hardware and landing attemptGalactic Energy
  200. H2 2027List on the Shanghai STAR MarketiSpace (Interstellar Glory)
  201. H2 2027Stand up Nscale Vera Rubin compute in BarstowFigure AI
  202. H2 2027Begin Cosmos midsize production at AMP-2 (delayed to H2 2027)Lucid Motors
  203. H2 2027+Co-develop Level 4 Midsize vehicles with Bolt for EuropeLucid Motors
  204. H2 2027 (CX300)Certify the H500A motor and the ALIA CX300Beta Technologies
  205. H2 2027Freeze aircraft design and begin conforming-prototype assemblyEve Air Mobility
  206. Sep 2027Field the Army enterprise ammunition management systemPalantir Technologies
  207. H2 2027Rubin Ultra NVL576Nvidia
  208. H2 2027Deliver LUMI-AI on MI430XAMD
  209. H2 2027Deliver CS-5 on NexusCerebras Systems
  210. Late 2027Nebula-2 first flight (Wuxi Daily, reported late 2027)Deep Blue Aerospace
  211. Late 2027-2028Deploy the first Aurora powerhouseOklo
  212. Late 2027Complete the Stellarator Model CoilProxima Fusion
  213. Late 2027Deliver first Superpower units to CrusoeBoom Supersonic
  214. Late 2027Launch first 10 Vast Satellite 15 kW busesVast
  215. Late 2027Dresden ESMC fab starts productionTSMC
  216. Q4 2027Launch Starmind AI1 orbital-compute prototypeSpaceX
  217. Q4 2027TeraWave constellation deployment beginsBlue Origin
  218. Q4 2027Fly three dedicated Vikram missions for HEX20Skyroot Aerospace
  219. Q4 2027Build out exclusive Nvidia compute, including the Starmind AI1 orbital satellitexAI
  220. Q4 2027Starmind AI1 orbital-compute satellites with SpaceXNvidia
  221. Dec 2027Bring the Cape Canaveral payload processing facility to initial operational capabilityBlue Origin
  222. End of 2027First flight of the cryogenic Vikram-2Skyroot Aerospace
  223. End of 2027Reach a launch a monthSkyroot Aerospace
  224. End of 2027Open public robotaxi service in MunichWaymo
  225. End of 2027Exit 2027 with more than 1,000 driverless trucksAurora Innovation
  226. End of 2027Roll Starlink across most of the Korean Air Group fleetStarlink
  227. Dec 2027Convert defense wins into task orders (HALO Europa + SHIELD)AST SpaceMobile
  228. End 2027 / Q1 2028Reach initial coverage and move into commercial serviceTelesat
  229. By end of 2027Execute manufacturing-network exitBioNTech
  230. Tuebingen end-2027Close remaining COVID manufacturing sites after failed saleBioNTech
  231. End of 2027Underwrite 200 MW of coalition compute by end-2027Mistral AI
  232. End of 2027Deliver Italy's two additional MQ-9A Block 5 ReapersGeneral Atomics Aeronautical Systems
  233. End of 2027Deliver 3 GWh ContourGlobal order across three countriesCATL
  234. 2027Reconcile EIA December 2027 planned operation for Cambridge BA1 with company CODForm Energy
  235. End 2027Ramp production to 100 satellites a yearICEYE
  236. 2027Refile C01-1735 in PJM Cycle 02 or the Expedited Interconnection TrackOklo

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