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Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (Uncrewed)
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Aug. 3, 2021, 5:20 p.m.
Test Flight
This is the second uncrewed test flight for the Starliner spacecraft. Reflight of the OFT mission will allow Boeing to demonstrate readiness of the spacecraft and implement corrections to the problems which were found during the first OFT flight.
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Aug 10, 2021
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 2-1
Polar Orbit Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
A batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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Aug 10, 2021
Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-16 (S.S. Ellison Onizuka)
Low Earth Orbit Wallops Island, Virginia, USA
This is the 16th planned flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 15th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. This Cygnus spacecraft is named after American astronaut Ellison Onizuka who died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle …
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Upcoming Events
Docking
August 04, 2021
Boeing Starliner OFT 2 Docking
International Space StationThe Boeing CST-100 Starliner will dock with the International Space Station as part of its second uncrewed test flight.
Undocking
August 08, 2021
Boeing Starliner OFT 2 Undocking
International Space StationThe Boeing CST-100 Starliner will undock from the International Space Station and conduct a deorbit burn as part of its second uncrewed test flight. Following the deorbit burn the capsule will renter the Earth's atmosphere and land at the 'White Sands Missile Range' using its parachutes.
Landing
August 08, 2021
Boeing Starliner OFT 2 Landing
White Sands Missile RangeFollowing its deorbit burn, the Boeing CST-100 Starliner will reenter the Earth's atmosphere and land at the White Sands Missile Range using its parachutes.
Berthing
August 12, 2021
NG-16 Cygnus Berthing
International Space StationNASA TV will livestream the rendezvous and capture of Northrop Grumman's NG-16 Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station.
MOMO v1
Flight 6
Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan - Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, JapanDespite the MOMO unit's number, this is the seventh flight of the sounding rocket. Company aims to reach space for the third time.
Ariane 5 ECA
Star One D2 & Eutelsat Quantum
Ariane Launch Area 3 - Kourou, French GuianaStar One D2 is a 6.2 tons satellite built by Space Systems Loral for operator Star One, subsidiary of Brazilian Embratel. Its architecture is based o…
Electron
STP-27RM (It’s a Little Chile Up Here)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandA U.S. Air Force experimental spacecraft. It will demonstrate the use of a deployable sensor, where the sensor’s mass is a substantial fraction of th…
Long March 2D
Tianhui-1-04
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaTH 1 (Tianhui-1 = "Sky drawing") is a Chinese stereo-topographic mapping satellite operated by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The satellites …
Proton-M
MLM Nauka
200/39 (200L) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanNauka (which means "Science" in Russian), also known as Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), is a new module of the russian segment of the ISS. It w…
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NS-16
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USAFirst crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
Long March 2
Yaogan-30-10
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