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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-37

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 15, 2024, 1:52 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Low Earth Orbit B1073 - Flight Proven ( ) A Shortfall of Gravitas
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-10

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 14, 2024, 8:59 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

A batch of 22 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Low Earth Orbit B1061 - Flight Proven ( ) Of Course I Still Love You
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H-IIA 202 | IGS Optical 8

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Japan
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Jan. 12, 2024, 4:44 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The IGS Optical 8 (Intelligence Gathering Satellite) is a Japanese optical reconnaissance satellite. The satellite is operated by the Cabinet Satellite Information Center. The satellite serves both Japan's national defense and civil natural disaster monitoring.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Gravity-1 | Maiden flight

Orienspace Technology | China
Sea Launch
Jan. 11, 2024, 5:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First launch of Chinese private company OrienSpace's Gravity-1 launch vehicle from an ocean-going launch platform. Payload is Yunyao-1 18-20, 3 weather satellites performing atmospheric measurements using GNSS Radio Occultation for a Tianjin based company. Constellation is planned to have an eventual 90 satellites.

Low Earth Orbit
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Kuaizhou 1A | Tianxing-1-02

ExPace | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 11, 2024, 3:52 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Satellite reported as for "spatial environment measurement" purposes. Actual usage TBD.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Long March 2C | Einstein Probe

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 9, 2024, 7:03 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Einstein Probe (EP) is a Chinese Wide-Field X-ray astronomy observatory for detecting high energy flashes of cataclysmic cosmic events. These includes tidal disruption events (stars pulled apart by supermassive black holes), supernovae, and high-energy, electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events. The spacecraft, weighing ~1400 kilograms, will be launched into a 600-kilometer-high, low-inclination orbit. The probe's instruments include a Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) with a field of view of 3,600 square degrees, employing cutting-edge "lobster eye" optics to view X-ray events more deeply and widely than previously possible, and a Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT), developed in collaboration with Europe, that performs follow-up detailed observations as soon as WXT detects an X-ray event. The Einstein Probe mission is managed by the NSSC, with participation from the CAS's NAOC, the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (SITP), and the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites, a spacecraft manufacturer that has previously produced space science and Beidou navigation spacecraft. The European Space Agency is contributing to the mission with a mirror module for the FXT instrument, as well as ground station and science management support. The FXT instrument is also supported by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.

Low Earth Orbit
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Vulcan VC2S | Peregrine lunar lander (Maiden flight)

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 8, 2024, 7:18 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Maiden flight of ULA's Vulcan launch vehicle carrying the Peregrine lunar lander developed by Astrobotic Technology. Astrobotic was selected by NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to deliver up to 14 NASA payloads to the Moon on its Peregrine lunar lander in 2022.

Lunar Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-35

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 7, 2024, 10:35 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit B1067 - Flight Proven ( ) A Shortfall of Gravitas
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Kuaizhou-1A | Tianmu-1 15-18

ExPace | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 5, 2024, 11:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Small meteorology research satellites using GNSS radio occultation by CASIC subsidiary Xiyong Microelectronics Park.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Ovzon-3

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 3, 2024, 11:04 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Ovzon 3 is a planned small communications satellite of the Swedish / US company Ovzon . The satellite was ordered in December 2018 from Maxar Technologies to meet the demand for increased mobile broadband connectivity in under-served regions. Ovzon selected the new mid-size SSL-500 (Legion class) platform for its first satellite. The satellite will be equipped with a third party built central on-board processor (OBP) attached to high-performance steerable Ku-band beams.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1076 - Flight Proven ( ) Landing Zone 1
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