Karsen Kitchen
American - (BO)
Occasional Spaceflight
Student in Communications and Astronomy, founder of Orbitelle, an initiative to encourage women to pursue careers in the space industry. She has researched radio astronomy at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia and worked at UNC's Morehead Planetarium.
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 9-6
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
BlueBird Block 1
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAFirst five satellites for SpaceMobile’s cellphone-compatible broadband constellation.
Soyuz 2.1a
Soyuz MS-26
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanSoyuz MS-26 will carry two cosmonauts and one astronaut to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome i…
Falcon 9
Polaris Dawn
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAFirst mission of the privately funded Polaris program. The goal of this mission, lasting up to five days in orbit, is to fly higher than previous Dra…
Falcon 9
NROL-113
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAThird batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to…
