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Long March 3B/E | Tianlian 2-04
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
March 26, 2025, 3:55 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Tianlian is a Chinese data tracking and relay communications geostationary satellite series. The TL 2 (Tian Lian 2) satellites represent the second generation of this relay satellite network, and is based on the DFH-4 Bus, a three-axis-stabilized telecommunications satellite platform. TL 2 will be used to support real-time communications between orbiting satellites and ground control stations. This system will replace the current network of ground-based space tracking and telemetry stations and space tracking ships.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Electron | Finding Hot Wildfires Near You (OroraTech OTC-P1)
Rocket Lab | United States of AmericaRocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
March 26, 2025, 3:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
8 satellites for a constellation of satellites developed by Orora Technologies (OroraTech) of Germany, with thermal infrared cameras that can provide 24/7 monitoring of wildfires globally, supporting better and faster wildfire response to protect forests, people, and infrastructure worldwide. The company plans to expand their constellation with up to 100 satellites in total by 2028.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-69
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 24, 2025, 5:48 p.m.
Ceres-1 | Yunyao-1 43-48
Galactic Energy | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
March 21, 2025, 11:07 a.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-57
SpaceX | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 21, 2025, 6:49 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Eighth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
Unknown B1088 - Flight Proven ( ) Landing Zone 4
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-25
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 18, 2025, 7:57 p.m.
Electron | High Five (Kinéis 21-25)
Rocket Lab | United States of AmericaRocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
March 18, 2025, 1:31 a.m.
Ceres-1 | 8 satellites
Galactic Energy | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
March 17, 2025, 8:07 a.m.
Angara 1.2 | 3 x Rodnik (Kosmos 2585, 2586, 2587)
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 16, 2025, 10:50 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Note: Payload identity and Cosmos series numbering not confirmed. The Strela (Russian: Стрела) are Soviet, then Russian, military space telecommunication satellites, in use since 1964. These satellites operate as mailboxes ("store-and-forward"): they remember the received messages and then resend them after the scheduled time, or by a command from the Earth. They can serve for up to five years. The satellites are used for transmission of encrypted messages and images. The operational constellation consists of 12 satellites in two orbital planes, spaced 90° apart. The spacecraft had a cylindrical body with a gravity-gradient boom, which was extended on-orbit to provide passive attitude stabilization. On-board storage was 12 Mbits of data, with a transmission rate of 2.4 kbit/s. The first three satellites were launched in 1964 by a Cosmos launcher. After one year of service, new and improved satellites were launched, called Strela-2. In 1970, these satellites were modernized, and became the Strela-1M and Strela-2M satellites. From 1985, these satellites will be gradually replaced by Strela-3, and then by Strela-3M from 2005. A civilian version of these satellites was created, called Goniets. Initially they were launched in groups of six on Tsyklon; when the launcher was retired, they were only launched by two on Cosmos, before Rokot was put into service and allowed the sending of triplets of Strela satellites.
Low Earth OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-16
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 15, 2025, 11:35 a.m.
