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March 22, 2023, 9:10 a.m.


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Mar 23, 2023

Terran 1 | Good Luck, Have Fun (Maiden Flight)

Relativity Space

Low Earth Orbit Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Maiden launch of the Terran 1 rocket developed by Relativity Space.
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Mar 23, 2023

Soyuz 2.1a | Bars-M No. 4 (Kosmos 25XX)

Progress Rocket Space Center

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Bars-M is the second incarnation of the Bars project, which was started in the mid 1990ies to develop a successor for the Komtea class of area surveillance satellites. The original Bars project was halted in the early 2000s. In 2007, TsSKB-Progress was contracted for Bars-M, for which reportedly the Yantar-based …
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Spacecraft Undocking
March 28, 2023

Soyuz MS-22 Undocking

International Space Station

The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station ahead of reentry and landing in Kazakhstan.

Spacecraft Landing
March 28, 2023

Soyuz MS-22 Landing

Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan

The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft carrying will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

Spacecraft Release
March 31, 2023

NG-18 Cygnus Release & Reentry

International Space Station

The Northrop Grumman NG-18 Cygnus will be unberthed from the ISS before initiating a destructive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere taking waste along with it.

Press Event
April 03, 2023

NASA Artemis II Crew Reveal

Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA

NASA will reveal the crew of its Artemis II mission that will fly around the moon in 2024. Out of four crew members, three will be NASA astronauts and one will be a CSA astronaut.


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 9 hours ago
SES-18 & SES-19
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

SES-18 & SES-19 are two communications satellites built by Northrop Grumman.


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 13 hours ago
Starlink Group 2-8
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 52 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 3
Success
5 days ago
Gaofen 13-02
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Gaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), a …


Electron
Success
5 days, 10 hours ago
Stronger Together
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C) - Wallops Island, Virginia, USA

Payload consists of 2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites for Capella Space. These 100-kg class satellites will expand Capella’s existing SA…


Long March 11
Success
6 days, 21 hours ago
Shiyan 19
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of China

Chinese Earth observation satellite of unknown purposes.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week ago
Dragon CRS-2 SpX-27
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

27th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commer…


Long March 2
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
Horus 2
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of China

Horus 2 is a remote sensing satellite for the Egyptian Space Agency developed by Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Co., Ltd. of CAST.


Proton-M Briz-M
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
Olymp-K #2 (Luch 5X)
200/39 (200L) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Secretive payload, reportedly known as Olymp-K or Luch, is a geostationary satellite built and launched for the Russian Ministry of defence and the R…


Long March 4C
Success
1 week, 5 days ago
Tianhui-6 A/B
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China

Described as satellites for cartography purposes, details TBD.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 5 days ago
OneWeb 17
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 40 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consum…


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