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Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-05)
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Electron | Daughter Of The Stars (LEO-PNT Pathfinder A)
Target orbit: Polar Orbit
The European Space Agency (ESA)'s LEO-PNT (Low Earth Orbit Positioning, Navigation and Timing) demonstrator mission will feature a 10-satellite constellation demonstration mission that will assess how a low Earth orbit fleet of satellites can work in combination with the Galileo and EGNOS constellations in higher orbits that provide Europeās own global navigation system. This launch will lift 2 āPathfinder Aā satellites built by Thales Alenia Space and GMV to a 510 km altitude Low Earth Orbit.
Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-05)
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude. 29 satellites are carried on this launch.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-44
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Target orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Tianlong-3 | Demo Flight
Target orbit: Polar Orbit
First test launch of Space Pioneerās Tianlong-3 rocket. Reports indicate this launch may carry a batch of satellites for the SpaceSail/G60/Qianfan LEO communication satellites constellation.
Zhuque-2E | Unknown Payload
Target orbit: Unknown
Details TBD.
Long March 12B | Demo Flight
Target orbit: Unknown
First test launch of CASCās Long March 12B rocket.
Kinetica 2 | Qingzhou Spacecraft Demo Flight
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
First test launch and mission of CAS Spaceās Kinetica-2 rocket and Qingzhou cargo resupply spacecraft for future cargo transport to the Chinese Tiangong Space Station under a commercial contract from the CMSEO.
Spectrum | Onward and Upward
Target orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Second test flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle. This launch will carry 5 cubesats and 1 non-separable experiment as part of European Space Agency (ESA)'s āBoost!ā program: * CyBEEsat (TU Berlin) * TriSat-S (University of Maribor) * Platform 6 (EnduroSat) * FramSat-1 (NTNU) * SpaceTeamSat1 (TU Wien Space Team) * Let It Go (Dcubed, non-separable experiment)
Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M | Meridian-M No.21L
Target orbit: Elliptical Orbit
Note: Payload identity uncertain. Meridian is a series of communications satellite for military and civilian use.
SLS Block 1 | Artemis II
Target orbit: Lunar flyby
Artemis II is the first crewed mission as part of the Artemis program. Artemis II will send a crew of 4 - 3 Americans and 1 Canadian around the moon and return them back to Earth. The mission will test the core systems of NASA's Orion spacecraft including the critical life support system, among other systems which could not be tested during Artemis I due to the lack of crew onboard.
Soyuz-5 | Demo Flight
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Demonstration Flight for Russia's new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle, with a mass simulator on board. Details TBD.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-58
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-35
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Minotaur IV | STP-S29A
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
STP-S29A is a mission under the U.S. Department of Defense's Space Test Program (STP) that will deliver technology demonstrations to orbit and contribute to future space system development, with this launch delivering up to 200 kg of STP cubesats to Low Earth Orbit. The main payload will be STPSat-7, an ESPA class satellite based on the Aegis Aerospace M-1 satellite bus used on the STPSat-4 mission for hosting research and technology demonstration payloads for the Department of Defense (DoD). One of the payload is U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Lightsheet Anomaly Resolution and Debris Observation (LARADO) instrument, used to detect and characterize lethal non-trackable orbital debris with lasers in orbit.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-21
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-24
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
This is the 24th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 23rd flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Vega-C | Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)
Target orbit: Elliptical Orbit
Joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to investigate the interaction between Earthās protective shield ā the magnetosphere ā and the supersonic solar wind.
Electron | Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)
Target orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
JAXA-manifested rideshare of eight separate spacecraft that includes educational small sats, an ocean monitoring satellite, a demonstration satellite for ultra-small multispectral cameras, and a deployable antenna that can be packed tightly using origami folding techniques and unfurled to 25 times its size. The satellites were originally planned to launch with RAISE-4 on a Japanese Epsilon-S rocket, but the Epsilon-S was heavily delayed due to test firing failures. The 8 satellites are: * MAGNARO-II * KOSEN-2R * WASEDA-SAT-ZERO-II * FSI-SAT2 * OrigamiSat-2 * Mono-Nikko * ARICA-2 * PRELUDE
Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-06)
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude. 29 satellites are carried on this launch.
Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-34 (95P)
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Ariane 64 | Amazon Leo (LE-02)
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude. 32 satellites are carried on this launch.
Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific)
Target orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.
New Glenn | BlueBird Block 2 #2
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
AST SpaceMobileās Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched. This launch will feature 1 satellite, BlueBird 7/BlueBird Block 2 FM2.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV10
Target orbit: Medium Earth Orbit
Tenth of ten GPS III missions.
Starship | Flight 12
Target orbit: Suborbital
12th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Maiden Flight of Starship V3
Vikram-I | Demo Flight
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
First launch of Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-I launch vehicle, with several cubesats on board. Payload identities TBD.
Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-03)
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude. 35-40 satellites will be carried on each Ariane 6 launch.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-34
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
34th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.
Electron | StriX Launch 9
Target orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.
Pegasus XL | Swift Rescue Mission
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Contracted by NASA under the Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 contract, Katalyst Space Technologies' LINK servicing spacecraft will rendezvous and attach to NASAās Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to re-boost its orbit. This aims to demonstrate a key capability for the future of space exploration and extending the Swift missionās science lifetime in gamma ray astronomy.
Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-35 (96P)
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Electron | LOXSAT 1
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
LOXSAT 1 is a demonstration satellite of a complete cryogenic oxygen fluid management system in orbit, developed by Eta Space and sponsored by NASA's Tipping Point program. The system will be integrated on a Rocket Lab Photon-LEO satellite bus and collect critical cryogenic fluid management data in orbit for 9 months, demonstrating capabilities of in-space cryogenic storage and transferal. Eta Space plans to use technology developed for this mission to develop a truly commercial depot intended to serve multiple customers in the future.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer D
Target orbit: Polar Orbit
Tranche 1 Transport Layer D is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.
Long March 10B | Demo Flight
Target orbit: Unknown
First test launch of CASCās Long March 10B rocket.
Firefly Alpha Block 2 | VICTUS HAZE Jackal
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
True Anomalyās Jackal Autonomous Orbital Vehicle (AOV) will support U.S. Space Force Space Systems Commandās VICTUS HAZE Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission with operations in orbit proximity with another spacecraft built by Rocket Lab National Security. The spacecraft, once completed, will remain on call until the U.S. Space Force provides the notice to launch. The Firefly team will then have 24 hours to transport the payload fairing to the pad, mate the fairing to the Alpha rocket, fuel the rocket, and launch within the first available window.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer E
Target orbit: Polar Orbit
Tranche 1 Tracking Layer E is one of five missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer constellation, which will provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Rivada 11
Target orbit: Polar Orbit
24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer E
Target orbit: Polar Orbit
Tranche 1 Transport Layer E is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | MRV-1
Target orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
The SpaceLogistics MRV-1 is a mission extension payload including a mission robotic vehicle (MRV) and multiple mission extension pods (MEPs).
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Rivada 7
Target orbit: Polar Orbit
24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Rivada 9
Target orbit: Polar Orbit
24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.
Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 23
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Shenzhou 23 will be the 23rd flight of the Shenzhou program.
H3-30 | H3-30 Test Flight
Target orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Test flight of the H3-30 variant of the H3 launch vehicle with 3 LE-9 engines in the first stage and no SRBs. The flight will carry a dummy main payload (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 5, VEP-5) and several hitchhiking small satellites: * PETREL * STARS-X * BRO-19 * VERTECS * HORN-L/R
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Rivada 12
Target orbit: Polar Orbit
24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | 9 x Globalstar-3
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit
The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax services via its Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees. In early 2022, Globalstar contracted with MDA for the construction of 17 new 3rd generation satellites to replenish the existing constellation. Rocket Lab is sub-contracted to build the satellites' buses and the launch dispensers.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 17 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Target orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Starship | Flight 13
Target orbit: Suborbital
13th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Second flight of Starship V3
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