Upcoming Spaceflight Launches
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Electron | Owl The Way Up (StriX Launch 6)
Rocket Lab | United States of AmericaRocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Dec. 21, 2024, 2:17 p.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Astranis: From One to Many (4x Astranis MicroGEO)
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 22, 2024, 5 a.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-2
SpaceX | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
December 23, 2024
Soyuz 2.1b | Resurs-P No.5
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 25, 2024, 7:45 a.m.
Kinetica 1 | Unknown Payload
CAS Space | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 26, 2024, 1:05 a.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Thuraya 4-NGS
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
December 27, 2024
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission:
Thuraya 4-NGS is a communication satellite being built by Airbus Defense and Space for the UAE based Yahsat. Based on the all-electric Airbus Eurostar-Neo Platform, Thuraya 4-NGS will incorporate a large 12-meter L-band antenna and a payload with on-board processing providing advanced routing flexibility of up to 3200 channels with dynamic power allocation over a large number of spot beams.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit Unknown F9 - Maiden Flight UnknownFalcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-3
SpaceX | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
December 29, 2024
PSLV-CA | SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment)
Indian Space Research Organization | IndiaSatish Dhawan Space Centre, India
December 30, 2024
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission:
SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) is an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) technology mission to demonstrate autonomous docking between 2 spacecraft in orbit. The mission will involve two spacecraft (Chaser and Target) rendezvous and docking together, plus testing attitude control of the combined spacecraft under docked conditions. The Chaser and Target spacecraft will then be separated for operating other payload. The mission is critical to develop rendezvous and docking abilities for ISRO’s future human spaceflight and lunar sample return missions.
Low Earth OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Lima
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Spectrum | Maiden Flight
Isar Aerospace | GermanyAndøya Spaceport
TBD December, 2024
Falcon 9
Bandwagon 2 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USADedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers…
Long March 3
TJSW-12
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaChinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.
Ceres-1S
Tianqi 33-36
Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship - Sea Launch4 small satellites for LEO Internet of Things (IoT) communication purposes.
KAIROS
Flight 2
Space One Launch Pad - Spaceport Kii, JapanSecond flight of the KAIROS launch vehicle. 5 satellites for testing various technologies will be on board: * TATARA-1 * PARUS-T1A * SC-Sat1…
Falcon 9
O3b mPower 7 & 8
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USASeventh and eighth of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by…
Falcon 9
NROL-149
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USASixth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to…
Falcon 9
GPS III SV07 (RRT-1)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAGPS-III (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known a…
Long March 2D
PIESAT-2 09-12
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for the Chinese Earth observation satellite company PIESAT.
Long March 5B/YZ-2
SatNet LEO Group 01
101 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of ChinaA batch of 10 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group…
Electron
Stonehenge
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C) - Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USASub-orbital launch of the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program for a confidential customer.
