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Atlas V 401 | JPSS 2 (Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft No. 2) & LOFTID
United Launch Alliance | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 10, 2022, 9:49 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Earth Science
JPSS is a collaborative program between NOAA and NASA. JPSS-2 is one of five satellites that will comprise the JPSS constellation. These spacecraft gather global measurements of atmospheric, terrestrial and oceanic conditions, including sea and land surface temperatures, vegetation, clouds, rainfall, snow and ice cover, fire locations and smoke plumes, atmospheric temperature, water vapor and ozone. LOFTID is a tech demo for the inflatable heatshield technology. It will attempt to survive a reentry from orbit after JPSS 2 is separated. This test will validate the technology for various applications, such as landing large payloads on Mars and engine reuse on ULA’s Vulcan rocket.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Atlas V 531 | SES-20 & SES-21
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, 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
Atlas V 421 | SBIRS GEO-6
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Aug. 4, 2022, 10:29 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Sixth geosynchronous satellite of the Space Based Infrared System program (SBIRS), providing capabilities for early missile warning and missile defense. SBIRS GEO-6 is the second satellite using Lockheed Martin's LM2100 combat bus.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Atlas V 541 | USSF-12
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
July 1, 2022, 11:15 p.m.
Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2)
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
May 19, 2022, 10:54 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Test Flight
This is the second uncrewed test flight for the Starliner spacecraft. Reflight of the OFT mission will allow Boeing to demonstrate readiness of the spacecraft and implement corrections to the problems which were found during the first OFT flight.
Low Earth Orbit
Atlas V 541 | GOES-T
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
March 1, 2022, 9:38 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T) is the third satellite in NOAA’s advanced GOES-R series. It is meant to operate as GOES West and work in tandem with GOES-16, which operates in the GOES East position
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Atlas V 511 | USSF-8
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 21, 2022, 7 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Government/Top Secret
USSF-8 will launch two identical Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites GSSAP-5 and GSSAP-6 directly to a near-geosynchronous orbit approximately 36,000 km above the equator. Data from the GSSAP will uniquely contribute to timely and accurate orbital predictions, further enabling space flight safety including satellite collision avoidance. Unique to this mission is the first and only planned flight of the Atlas V 511 configuration.
Geosynchronous Orbit
Atlas V 551 | STP-3
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Dec. 7, 2021, 10:19 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Dedicated Rideshare
Rideshare mission with the STPSat-6 satellite and six secondary payloads for the US Air Force. STPSat-6 carries the NNSA's Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System-3 (SABRS-3) payload and NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) experiment.
Geostationary OrbitAtlas V 401 | Lucy
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 16, 2021, 9:34 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Lucy is the first mission to explore and study Trojan asteroids. The Trojans are a type of asteroids that orbit the Sun in two groups, in front of and behind Jupiter in its orbit around our star. Since these asteroids have been in such stable orbits for billions of years, they are of great interest as remnants of early Solar System. Lucy is a NASA mission led by NASA Goddard and Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Over the course of 12 years, Lucy will fly by seven different Trojan asteroids and also one main belt asteroid. The complex trajectory to visit all targets will include several Earth gravity assists.
Heliocentric N/AAtlas V 401 | Landsat 9
United Launch Alliance | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 27, 2021, 6:12 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Earth Science
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
