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Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 17 (Kosmos 2559)
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaPlesetsk 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
Long March 2D | Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory (ASO-S)
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaJiuquan 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
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Galaxy 33 & 34
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Oct. 8, 2022, 11:05 p.m.
Electron | It Argos Up From Here (Argos-4)
Rocket Lab | United States of AmericaRocket 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
Long March 11 | CentiSpace-1 S5 & S6
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaSea Launch
Oct. 7, 2022, 1:10 p.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-29
SpaceX | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 5, 2022, 11:10 p.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-5
SpaceX | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 5, 2022, 4 p.m.
Atlas V 531 | SES-20 & SES-21
United Launch Alliance | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Oct. 4, 2022, 9:36 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
SES-20 & SES-21 are a pair of C-band communication satellites built by Boeing, using the highly efficient all-electric propulsion BSS-702SP satellite bus. These satellites will enable SES to clear 280MHz of mid-band spectrum for 5G use while seamlessly migrating SES’s existing C-band customers and ensuring the continued delivery of digital television to nearly 120 million American TV homes and other critical data services.
Geostationary Orbit
Firefly Alpha | FLTA002 (To The Black)
Firefly Aerospace | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 1, 2022, 7:01 a.m.
Long March 6 | Shiyan 16 A/B & Shiyan 17
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaTaiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Sept. 26, 2022, 11:50 p.m.
