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GSLV Mk III | Chandrayaan-2
Indian Space Research Organization | INDSriharikota, Republic of India
July 22, 2019, 9:13 a.m.
Status: Go
Mission: Planetary Science
Chandrayaan-2 is India's second mission to the Moon. It consists of an orbiter, lander and rover. After reaching the 100 km lunar orbit, the lander housing the rover will separate from the orbiter. After a controlled descent, the lander will perform a soft landing on the lunar surface at a specified site and deploy the rover. Six-wheeled rover weighs around 20 kg and will operate on solar power. It will move around the landing site, performing lunar surface chemical analysis and relaying data back to Earth through the orbiter. The lander will be collecting data on Moon-quakes, thermal properties of the lunar surface, the density and variation of lunar surface plasma. The orbiter will be mapping lunar surface. Altogether, Chandrayaan-2 mission will collect scientific information on lunar topography, mineralogy, elemental abundance, lunar exosphere and signatures of hydroxyl and water-ice.
Lunar Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX CRS-18
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
July 24, 2019, 10:24 p.m.
Hyperbola-1 | Maiden Flight
iSpace | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
July 25, 2019, 5 a.m.
Long March 2C | Yaogan-30-05
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | CHNXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
July 26, 2019, 3 a.m.
MOMO | Flight 4
Interstellar Technologies | JPNTaiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
July 27, 2019, 2:05 a.m.
Status: Go
Mission: Suborbital
The Momo-4 rocket will carry a research device developed by Kochi University of Technology and release a paper plane in space as part of an experiment proposed by Castem Co., a precision parts manufacturer based in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, that provided some of the funding for the project.
Sub-OrbitalKuaizhou-1A | Unknown
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
July 30, 2019, midnight
Ariane 5 ECA | Intelsat 39 & EDRS-C/HYLAS 3
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
July 30, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Status: TBD
Mission: Communications
EDRS-C is one of the two EDRS (European Data Relay System) satellites. EDRS is the European constellation of two geostationary data relay satellites that will relay information and data between satellites, spacecraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and ground stations. Broadband communications payload called HYLAS 3 is placed on EDRS-C satellite, and is to complement HYLAS 1 and HYLAS 2 satellites already in orbit.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
PSLV-XL | Cartosat-3 & NEMO-AM
Indian Space Research Organization | INDSriharikota, Republic of India
July 31, 2019, midnight
SSLV | Demo 1 (2 x Defense satellites)
Indian Space Research Organization | INDSriharikota, Republic of India
July 31, 2019, midnight
Kuaizhou-11 | Maiden Flight
ExPace | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
July 31, 2019, midnight
Soyuz
Soyuz MS-13 - Success
Soyuz MS-13 begins expedition 60 by carrying NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos launch to the ...
Saturn V
Apollo 11 - 50th Anniversary - In Flight
Relive the historic launch of Apollo 11 with NASA TV and Apollo in Real Time to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of humanities first voyage to the lunar surface. Apollo 11 was commanded by Neil Ar...
Proton-M
Spektr-RG - Success
Spektr-RG is a joint Russian-German observatory-class mission. It is intented to study the interplanetary magnetic field, galaxies and black holes.
Vega
Falcon Eye 1 - Failure
Falcon Eye 1 is a high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite for the United Arab Emirates. Built by Airbus Defense and Space with an optical imaging payload from Thales Alenia Space, Falcon Eye 1 is t...
Soyuz 2-1v
Kosmos 2535, Kosmos 2536, Kosmos 2537, Kosmos 2538 - Success
Four satellites in the interests of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
Soyuz 2.1B
Meteor-M №2-2 & rideshare payloads - Success
This is the fourth spacecraft in the Russian Meteor-M series of remote sensing satellites. Weighing about 2750 kg, it is intended to gather hydrometeorological data from sun-synchronous orbit. This...
Orion Abort Test Booster
Ascent Abort-2 - Success
Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) is a scheduled test of the Launch Abort System (LAS) of NASA's Orion spacecraft.
SARGE
SARGE Launch 3 - Partial Failure
The 3rd launch of EXOS Aerospace's reusable launch vehicle. Failed during ascent due to what appears to be a gimbal issue. Sarge 1 glided steering its parachute and landed safely on the ground af...
Electron
Make It Rain - Success
Rideshare mission for Spaceflight. Electron will launch seven spacecraft, including a commercial Earth-observing microsatellite for BlackSky, two CubeSats for U.S. Special Operations Command, a pai...
Falcon Heavy
STP-2 - Success
The STP-2 payload is composed of 25 small spacecraft. Included is COSMIC-2 constellation to provide radio occultation data, along with 8 cubesat nanosatellites. Other payloads include LightSail ca...
