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Atlas V 401 | SBIRS GEO Flight 3 (SBIRS GEO-4)

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Jan. 21, 2017, 12:42 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

This geostationary satellite is tasked with providing capabilities for early missile warning and missile defense.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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SS-520-4 | TRICOM-1

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Jan. 14, 2017, 11:33 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

TRICOM-1 is an experimental 3U cubsat build by University of Tokyo. It is equipped with 5 small cameras for Earth imaging purposes, and is also tasked with storing and transmitting data between ground terminals.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Full Thrust | Iridium-1

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 14, 2017, 5:54 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver 10 satellites to low Earth orbit for Iridium, a global leader in mobile voice and data satellite communications. This is the first set of 10 satellites in a series of 75 total satellites that SpaceX will launch for Iridium’s next generation global satellite constellation, Iridium® NEXT.

Low Earth Orbit B1029 - Maiden Flight Just Read the Instructions
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Kuaizhou-1A | Multiple payloads

ExPace | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 9, 2017, 4:11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Lingqiao (or known as Jilin 1) is a small remote sensing satellite designed to capture videos with a ground resolution of 1.3 m. This is a third satellite of the Lingqiao series.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Long March 3B | TJS-2 (TJSW-2)

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 5, 2017, 3:18 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

This is supposedly a test communications satellite to operate in geostationary orbit.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Long March 2D | SuperView-1 (Gaojing 1-01 & Gaojing 1-02)

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 28, 2016, 3:23 a.m.
Status: Launch was a Partial Failure
Mission:

Gaojing-1 is a constellation of Chinese civilian remote sensing satellites, which will initially consist of two satellites launched together.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF02

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 22, 2016, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Unity.

Suborbital
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Ariane 5 ECA | Star One D1 & JCSAT-15

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Dec. 21, 2016, 8:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Both are communications satellites. Equipped with C-, Ku-, and Ka-band payloads, Star One D1 will be used for telecommunications, television broadcast, broadband, Internet access, and other services in Brazil and in the Latin American region. JCSAT-15 will operate in Ku-band and is designed with the flexibility to be used for services such as video distribution in Japan, and data transfer communications, maritime and aviation applications in the Indian Ocean Region.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Long March 2D | Tansat (CarbonSat)

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 21, 2016, 7:22 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Tansat is a global CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) monitoring scientific experiment satellite and demonstration mission. The main components of the project are: The global carbon dioxide monitoring platform. A high spectral and spatial resolution CO2 detector. A multispectral cloud and aerosol detector. And a ground data processing and inversion CO2 verification system.

Low Earth Orbit
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Epsilon | ERG (ARASE)

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Dec. 20, 2016, 11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The ERG  (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace) project is a mission to study the Van Allen belts. The task is to elucidate how highly charged electrons are born while they generate and vanish repeatedly along with space storms caused by the disturbance of solar wind, influenced by space storms, and how space storms are developed.

Elliptical Orbit
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