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Soyuz STA/Fregat | CSO-2
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Dec. 29, 2020, 4:42 p.m.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 4
Russian Space Forces | RUSVostochny 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 Interned 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 OrbitSoyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Gonets-M30, Gonets-M31, Gonets-M32
Russian Space Forces | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 3, 2020, 1:14 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Communications
Gonets-M are an upgraded version of Gonets satellites, derived from military communications system Strela-3. Gonets-M constellation is tasked with monitoring ecological and industrial objects, providing communication and data transmission services, covering also the remote areas like the Far North region.
Low Earth OrbitSoyuz STA/Fregat | Falcon Eye 2
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Dec. 2, 2020, 1:33 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Government/Top Secret
Falcon Eye 2 is a high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite for the United Arab Emirates. Built by Airbus Defense and Space with an optical imaging payload from Thales Alenia Space, Falcon Eye is the second of two surveillance satellites ordered by the UAE's military.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 25, 2020, 7:08 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Navigation
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.
Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-17
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 14, 2020, 5:45 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Human Exploration
Soyuz MS-17 begins expedition 63 by carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, they will rendezvous to the station where they will remain for their 6 month stay.
Low Earth OrbitSoyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Gonets-M27, Gonets-M28, Gonets-M29 and others
Russian Space Forces | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 28, 2020, 11:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission: Communications
Gonets-M are an upgraded version of Gonets satellites, derived from military communications system Strela-3. Gonets-M constellation is tasked with monitoring ecological and industrial objects, providing communication and data transmission services, covering also the remote areas like the Far North region. This launch also carries 22 small satellites as a rideshare payloads. These are cubesats for commercial companies such as Spire and Kepler Communications, as well as cubesats for various international universities.
Low Earth OrbitSoyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-15 (76P)
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 23, 2020, 2:26 p.m.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | EKS 4 (Tundra 4) (Kosmos 2546)
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
May 22, 2020, 7:31 a.m.
Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-14 (75P)
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 25, 2020, 1:51 a.m.
