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Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 4
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaVostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
Dec. 18, 2020, 12:26 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
A batch of 36 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consumers. The constellation is planned to have around 648 microsatellites (of which 60 are spares), around 150 kg each, operating in Ku-band from low Earth orbit.
Polar Orbit
PSLV-XL | CMS-01 (GSAT-12R)
Indian Space Research Organization | IndiaSatish Dhawan Space Centre, India
Dec. 17, 2020, 10:11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
CMS-01, formerly also known as GSAT-12R, is an Indian geostationary telecommunications satellite. It's designed to last for 7 years and will provide services in Extended-C band across Indian mainland, Andaman-Nicobar & Lakshadweep Islands.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Astra Rocket 3.2 | Flight 2
Astra Space | United States of AmericaPacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA
Dec. 15, 2020, 8:55 p.m.
Electron | The Owl's Night Begins (StriX-α)
Rocket Lab | United States of AmericaRocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Dec. 15, 2020, 10:09 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
StriX-α is a demonstration mission for Japanese company Synspective which plans to deploy a constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites. For this mission, Rocket Lab will utilize a custom expanded fairing to encompass Synspective’s wide-body satellite – the first use of the expanded fairing options that Rocket Lab recently introduced.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Angara A5/Briz-M | Dummy payload
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 14, 2020, 5:50 a.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-7
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 13, 2020, 5:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
SXM-7 is a large high power broadcasting satellite for SiriusXM's digital audio radio service (DARS). Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) got in July 2016 the contract to build the two satellites based on their SSL-1300 bus - SXM-7 and SXM-8. Both operate in the S-band spectrum. Each satellite will generate more than 20-kW of power and will have a large unfurlable antenna reflector, which enables broadcast to radios without the need for large dish-type antennas on the ground. SXM-7 is meant to replace the XM-3 satellite.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1051 - Flight Proven ( ) Just Read the Instructions
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity VF-02
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 12, 2020, 3:24 p.m.
Delta IV Heavy | NROL-44
United Launch Alliance | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 11, 2020, 1:09 a.m.
Starship SN8 | 12.5 km Flight
SpaceX | United States of AmericaSpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Dec. 9, 2020, 10:45 p.m.
Long March 11 | GECAM
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 9, 2020, 8:14 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
GECAM (Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor) is a constellation of two small X-ray and gamma-ray all-sky observatories to search for gamma-ray counterparts to gravitational wave events. Each satellite features a dome-shaped array of 25 Gamma-ray detectors (GRD) and 8 Charged particle detectors (CPD). Together the satellites will provide a FOV of 100% all-sky. The sensitivity of the detectors is ~2E-8 erg/cm2/s. They will provide a localization of ~1°. The detectors are sensible in the energy band from 6 keV to 5 MeV. Besides detecting the radiation from gravitatinal wave events, the satellites will also be contributing in detectiong Ultra-long GRBs, X-ray Flashes, X-ray-rich GRBs, Magnetars and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes.
Low Earth Orbit
