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Kuaizhou-1A | Jilin-1-02D
ExPace | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
Sept. 27, 2021, 6:20 a.m.
Long March 3B/E | Unknown
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | CHNXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Sept. 27, 2021, 8:15 a.m.
Atlas V 401 | Landsat 9
United Launch Alliance | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 27, 2021, 6:11 p.m.
Status: Go for Launch
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, will have a higher imaging capacity than past Landsats, allowing more valuable data to be added to the Landsat’s global land archive. Satellite will operaite in sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 705 km and has a mission lifetime of 5 years.
Sun-Synchronous OrbitKuaizhou-1A | Jilin-1-02F
ExPace | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
Sept. 30, 2021, midnight
Long March 2C/YZ-1S | Yaogan-32-02
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
Sept. 30, 2021, midnight
Epsilon | RAISE-2 & Others
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | JPNUchinoura Space Center, Japan
Oct. 1, 2021, 12:48 a.m.
Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-19
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 5, 2021, 8:55 a.m.
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission: Human Exploration
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
Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 13
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
Oct. 13, 2021, midnight
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 11
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSVostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
Oct. 14, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Communications
A batch of 34 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 OrbitAtlas V 401 | Lucy
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 16, 2021, 9:34 a.m.
Status: To Be Confirmed
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/ALong March 7
Tianzhou-3
Wenchang - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaSecond cargo delivery mission to the Chinese large modular space station.
Hapith I
Test Flight
Pad 1 - Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex, South AustraliaThe first Hapith I launch will be testing TiSPACE's hybrid rocket engine technology in preparation for the future Hapith V launch vehicle. Targeting …
Falcon 9
Inspiration4
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAInspiration4 is the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit. Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, is donating the thre…
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
OneWeb 10
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanA batch of 34 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consum…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 2-1
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 51 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz
Razbeg 1 (Kosmos 2551)
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationThe Russian Razbeg 1 is small military satellite optical reconnaissance satellite. It was built by NPP VNIIEM. It is likely the same satellite ide…
Long March 3
ChinaSat 9B
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaZhongxing-9B (ChinaSat 9B) is a Chinese communications satellite, that will replace the Zhongxing-9A satellite in orbit. The latter was launched in 2…
Long March 4C
Gaofen-5-02
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaGaofen (GF) is a series of Chinese civilian remote sensing satellites for the state-sponsored program China High-definition Earth Observation System …
Firefly Alpha
Maiden Flight
Space Launch Complex 2W - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAFirst flight of the new Firefly Alpha small sat launcher developed by Firefly Aerospace. It will carry Firefly’s DREAM (Dedicated Research & Educatio…
Falcon 9
Dragon CRS-2 SpX-23
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USASpaceX will launch the cargo variant of its Dragon 2 spacecraft on their 23rd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station…
