Previous Spaceflight Launches

Filter by Agency, Locations or Vehicles

Show All Launches

Full Launch History

View all launches available - including launches from the past and utilize powerful search filters.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hotbird 13F

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Oct. 15, 2022, 5:22 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space for Eutelsat.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1069 - Flight Proven ( ) Just Read the Instructions
Explore Share

Long March 2D | Yaogan 36 Group 02

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Oct. 14, 2022, 7:12 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

3 Chinese military reconnaissance satellites.

Low Earth Orbit
Explore Share

Long March 2C | 5 m S-SAR-01 (Huanjing-2E)

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Oct. 12, 2022, 10:53 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Chinese S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite with 5 m resolution.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Explore Share

Proton-M/Blok DM-03 | AngoSat-2

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 12, 2022, 3 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The AngoSat 2 is a communications satellite built for Angola to replace the failed AngoSat 1. The Angosat Project calls for development of a communications satellite with C- and Ku-band transponders, its launch into a geostationary orbit and development of the ground communication and TV broadcasting infrastructure. In August 2019 it was revealed the replacement satellite is being built by ISS Reshetnev (Bus) and Airbus Defence & Space (payload). Construction has started in February 2018.

Geostationary Orbit
Explore Share

Epsilon | RAISE-3 & others

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Oct. 12, 2022, 12:50 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

RAISE-3 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-3) was a satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 7 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite was to be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments. The launch is also carrying QPS-SAR 3 & 4 radar Earth observation satellites for iQPS, and 5 cubesats for various Japanese institutions & companies.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Explore Share

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 17 (Kosmos 2559)

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 10, 2022, 2:52 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Glonass-K are the third generation of satellite design for GLONASS satellite navigation system. GLONASS is a Russian space-based navigation system comparable to the similar GPS and Galileo systems. This generation improves on accuracy, power consumption and design life. Each satellite is unpressurized and weighs 935 kg, and has an operational lifetime of 10 years.

Medium Earth Orbit
Explore Share

Long March 2D | Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory (ASO-S)

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Oct. 8, 2022, 11:43 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

ASO-S (Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory) is a Chinese solar space observatory that aims to study the interaction between the Sun's magnetic field, solar flares and coronal mass ejections. It's the first space solar observatory of China. ASO-S is a 3-axis stabilized satellite with a mass of less than 1,000 kg with a pointing accuracy of 0.01° and an orientation stability of 1 to 2 arc seconds every 20 seconds. The payload has a mass below 335 kg and consumes about 300 watts. The platform's pointing accuracy is lower than 0.01°, the measurement accuracy is lower than 1 arc second and the orientation drift is below 0.0004°/s. ASO-S has three instruments: - The Full-Disc Vector Magnetograph (FMG) instrument is intended to map the magnetic field of the photosphere over the entire solar disk. It includes an imager, an optical polarization system and a CCD detector. - The Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) camera should image the whole solar disk in X-rays. The instrument is optimized to take images of solar flares. - A set of three LST (Lyman-alpha Solar Telescope) telescopes is used to observe the Lyman-alpha line (121.6 nm) of solar flares up to a distance of several solar radii from the Sun's disk. These three telescopes are SDI (to obtain an image of the solar disk), SCI (coronagraph for observation between 1.1 and 2.5 solar radii) and WST (white light emitted by the solar disk used for calibration purposes).

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Explore Share

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Galaxy 33 & 34

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Oct. 8, 2022, 11:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Galaxy 33, 34 are two geostationary communications satellites manufactured by Northrop Grumman and operated by Intelsat.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1060 - Flight Proven ( ) A Shortfall of Gravitas
Explore Share

Electron | It Argos Up From Here (Argos-4)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Oct. 7, 2022, 5:09 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The “It Argos Up From Here” mission will launch the General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems designed and manufactured satellite GAzelle, carrying Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) hosted payload, part of the international Argos program that collects data from thousands of sensors and transmitters located around the world.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit 31 - Maiden Flight South Pacific
Explore Share

Long March 11 | CentiSpace-1 S5 & S6

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Sea Launch
Oct. 7, 2022, 1:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

CentiSpace-1 S5 and S6 are Chinese commercial small satellites by Beijing-based company Future Navigation for providing GNSS augmentation signals services from LEO. They are precursors to a planned 160 satellites constellation.

Low Earth Orbit
Explore Share