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Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-57
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Feb. 17, 2025, 1:18 p.m.
Government/Top Secret
Eighth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
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Feb 18, 2025
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-12
Low Earth Orbit Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. First Starlink launch to feature a Falcon 9 booster landing within The Bahamas waters.
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Feb 18, 2025
Electron | Fasten Your Space Belts (BlackSky Gen-3 1)
Low Earth Orbit Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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 …
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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.
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.
Docking
March 01, 2025
Progress MS-30 Docking
International Space StationThe Progress MS-30 spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously dock to the Zvezda module of the ISS.
Moon Landing
March 02, 2025
Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
Mare Crisium, MoonFirefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander will attempt a landing in Mare Crisium near Mons Latreille.
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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