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Electron | Fasten Your Space Belts (BlackSky Gen-3 1)
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Feb. 18, 2025, 11:17 p.m.
Earth Science
The first of five BlackSky Technology missions to deploy its new next-generation BlackSky Gen-3 satellites. The commercial constellation of Gen-3 satellites has the capability to produce imagery with 50-centimeter resolution and host multiple sensors, including in shortwave infrared (SWIR). The improved resolution and enhanced spectral diversity of the Gen-3 satellites will expand BlackSky's ability to provide real-time information to its customers.
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Long March 3B/E | Unknown Payload
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Feb 22, 2025
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-1
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A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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Upcoming Events
Flyby
February 18, 2025
Solar Orbiter Venus Flyby
VenusSolar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on February 18, 2025. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles.
Press Event
February 24, 2025
ISS Expedition 73 Overview News Conference
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USANASA and its partners will participate in an overview news conference covering preparations for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 launch in March and the agency’s crew member rotation launch on Soyuz in April.
Press Event
February 24, 2025
ISS Expedition 73 Crew News Conference
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USANASA and its partners will host a crew news conference in preparation for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 launch in March and the agency’s crew member rotation launch on Soyuz in April.
Spacecraft Undocking
February 25, 2025
Progress MS-28 Undocking
International Space StationThe Progress MS-28 spacecraft will undock from the Zvezda module of the International Space Station. It will then de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 12-8
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 12-18
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 8A
SatNet LEO Group 02 (Demo Flight)
201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of ChinaDemonstration flight of the Long March 8A rocket with upgraded first stage and boosters engines, and a new larger liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen secon…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 11-10
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Electron
IoT 4 You and Me (Kinéis 16-20)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandFourth batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 12-9
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2.1v
Kosmos 2581/2582/2583
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationUnidentified classified satellites for the Russian military.
Falcon 9
WorldView Legion 5 & 6
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAWorldView Legion is a constellation of Earth observation satellites built and operated by Maxar. Constellation is planned to consist of 6 satellites …
New Shepard
NS-29
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USANS-29 will simulate the Moon’s gravity and fly 30 payloads, all but one of which is focused on testing lunar-related technologies. The payloads wi…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 12-3
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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