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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-2
SpaceX | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 13, 2024, 9:55 p.m.
Long March 2D/YZ-3 | High Speed Laser Diamond Constellation Test System
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 12, 2024, 7:17 a.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-5
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 8, 2024, 5:12 a.m.
Simorgh | Fakhr-1 & Saman-1
Iranian Space Agency | IranSemnan Space Center, Islamic Republic of Iran
Dec. 6, 2024, 3:14 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Fakhr-1 is a 3U size cubesat to test locally produced spacecraft components, a communication payload and launch vehicle's multi-payload carrying capability. Saman-1 is a prototype solid fuel kick stage with 3-axis control for sending payloads into higher orbits.
Low Earth Orbit
Vega-C | Sentinel-1C
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Dec. 5, 2024, 9:20 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Sentinel-1C carries an advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface. It is a replacement satellite to complete the Sentinel-1 duo after Sentinel-1B suffered a technical anomaly.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-9
SpaceX | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Dec. 5, 2024, 4:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
SXM-9 is the 10th high-powered, digital, audio radio satellite built by Maxar (SSL) for SiriusXM. The SXM-9 satellite will be based on Maxar’s proven 1300-class platform and built at the company’s manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. It is expected that SXM-9 will launch in 2024. SXM-9 has a large, mesh, unfurlable reflector almost 10 meters in diameter that allows SiriusXM programming to reach its radios, including those in moving vehicles.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1076 - Flight Proven ( ) Just Read the Instructions
PSLV-XL | Proba-3
Indian Space Research Organization | IndiaSatish Dhawan Space Centre, India
Dec. 5, 2024, 10:34 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Proba-3 (Project for On-Board Autonomy 3) is the first close formation flying mission for the European Space Agency (ESA). It consists of two independent, three-axis stabilised spacecraft flying 150 meters from one another with the ability to accurately control the attitude and separation of the two craft. Such formation flying will be maintained for 6 hours, creating ″artificial solar eclipse″ for the satellite below. The spacecraft pair will fly a highly elliptical orbit divided between periods of accurate formation flying around apogee, when payload operations will be possible, and periods of free flight.
Elliptical Orbit
Long March 6A | G60 Polar Group 03
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaTaiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 5, 2024, 4:41 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
18 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) with funding backed by the Shanghai local government. Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.
Polar OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-14
SpaceX | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 5, 2024, 3:05 a.m.
Soyuz 2.1b | Kosmos 2580 (Lotos-S1 #9)
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 4, 2024, 6:03 p.m.
