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Long March 2D | Xihe (CHASE)
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaTaiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Oct. 14, 2021, 10:51 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Xihe, also known as the Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE), is designed to test a newly developed satellite platform and conduct solar observations. The scientific payload of the satellite is an Hα imaging spectrograph (HIS), which can, for the first time, acquire full-disk spectroscopic solar observations in the Hα waveband. It will complement the observations by on-orbit solar spacecraft (such as SDO, IRIS, STEREO and PSP), as well as future solar missions of the Solar Orbiter and the Chinese Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S). Mission is named Xihe after a solar deity from Chinese mythology.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 11
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaVostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
Oct. 14, 2021, 9:40 a.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
New Shepard | NS-18
Blue Origin | United States of AmericaCorn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Oct. 13, 2021, 2:49 p.m.
Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-19
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 5, 2021, 8:55 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Soyuz mission launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and carrying Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov as well as the Challenge movie crew (Russian film producer Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild) to the International Space Station.
Low Earth Orbit
Atlas V 401 | Landsat 9
United Launch Alliance | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 27, 2021, 6:12 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Landsat 9 is a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey to continue the Landsat program's critical role in monitoring, understanding and managing the land resources needed to sustain human life. Landsat 9, like Landsat 8, has a higher imaging capacity than past Landsats, allowing more valuable data to be added to the Landsat global land archive. Its operational orbit is a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 705 km for a mission lifetime of at least 5 years.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Long March 3B/E | Shiyan 10
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Sept. 27, 2021, 8:20 a.m.
Kuaizhou-1A | Jilin-1-02D
ExPace | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Sept. 27, 2021, 6:19 a.m.
Long March 7 | Tianzhou-3
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaWenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
Sept. 20, 2021, 7:10 a.m.
Hapith I | Test Flight
TiSPACE | TaiwanWhalers Way Orbital Launch Complex, South Australia
Sept. 16, 2021, 6:39 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:
The first Hapith I launch will be testing TiSPACE's hybrid rocket engine technology in preparation for the future Hapith V launch vehicle. Targeting 250 km altitude, the test launch campaign will also support of the development of the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex in South Australia, operated by Southern Launch.
Suborbital
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Inspiration4
SpaceX | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 16, 2021, 12:02 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Inspiration4 is the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit. Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, is donating the three seats alongside him aboard Dragon to individuals from the general public - Medical Officer Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and pediatric cancer survivor; Mission Specialist Chris Sembroski, an Air Force veteran and aerospace data engineer; and Mission Pilot Dr. Sian Proctor, a geoscientist, entrepreneur, and trained pilot. The Inspiration4 crew received commercial astronaut training by SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, orbital mechanics, operating in microgravity, zero gravity, and other forms of stress testing. They will go through emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full mission simulations. The Crew Dragon spacecraft will remain in a 575 km high orbit for three days before reentering Earth's atmosphere for a soft water landing off the coast of Florida. During their multi-day journey in orbit, the Inspiration4 crew will conduct scientific research designed to advance human health on Earth and during future long-duration spaceflights. For this mission, Crew Dragon is configured to feature an observation dome in place of docking port to provide views to the crew.
Low Earth Orbit Inspiration4 B1062 - Flight Proven ( ) Just Read the Instructions
