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Upcoming Launches


Jan 20, 2025

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-8

SpaceX

Low Earth Orbit Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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Jan 21, 2025

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 13-1

SpaceX

Low Earth Orbit Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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Upcoming Events


EVA
January 23, 2025

US EVA-92

International Space Station

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will remove a radio frequency group antenna assembly from the station’s truss, collect samples of surface material for analysis from the Destiny laboratory and the Quest airlock to see whether microorganisms may exist on the exterior of the orbital complex, and prepare a spare elbow joint for the Canadarm2 robotic arm in the event it is needed for a replacement.

Docking
January 31, 2025

SpaDeX Docking Test

India's first attempt at docking in low earth orbit.

Flyby
February 18, 2025

Solar Orbiter Venus Flyby

Venus

Solar 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 …

Moon Landing
March 02, 2025

Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing

Mare Crisium, Moon

Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander will attempt a landing in Mare Crisium near Mons Latreille.


Long March 2D
Success
2 days, 19 hours ago
PRSC-EO1
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Earth observation satellite for SUPARCO of Pakistan.


Starship
Failure
3 days ago
Flight 7
Orbital Launch Mount A - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

Seventh test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.


New Glenn
Success
3 days, 16 hours ago
Maiden Flight
Launch Complex 36A - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, consisting of communicat…


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 17 hours ago
Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Blue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASA’s CLPS program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of payloa…


Falcon 9
Success
5 days, 4 hours ago
Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.


Falcon 9
Success
6 days, 6 hours ago
Starlink Group 12-4
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Smart Dragon 3
Success
6 days, 20 hours ago
10 x CentiSpace-1
Haiyang Spaceport - Sea Launch

Chinese commercial small satellites by Beijing-based company Future Navigation for providing GNSS augmentation signals services from LEO. They are pa…


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
Starlink Group 12-12
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
NROL-153
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Seventh batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office …


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 4 days ago
Starlink Group 12-11
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


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