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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-29
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 3, 2022, 11:56 p.m.
Atlas V 531 | SES-20 & SES-21
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 4, 2022, 9:36 p.m.
Status: Go for Launch
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
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-5
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 5, 2022, 4 p.m.
Electron | It Argos Up From Here
Rocket Lab Ltd | USAOnenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Oct. 6, 2022, 5 p.m.
Status: Go for Launch
Mission:
The “It Argos Up From Here” mission will launch the General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems designed and manufactured satellite GAzelle, carrying Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) hosted payload, part of the international Argos program that collects data from thousands of sensors and transmitters located around the world.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Galaxy 33 & 34
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
October 06, 2022
Long March 2D | Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory (ASO-S) (?)
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
Oct. 6, 2022, 11:40 p.m.
Status: Go for Launch
Mission:
Note: Payload and launch vehicle identity with this launch entry uncertain. ASO-S (Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory) is a Chinese solar space observatory that aims to study the interaction between the Sun's magnetic field, solar flares and coronal mass ejections. It's the first space solar observatory of China. ASO-S is a 3-axis stabilized satellite with a mass of less than 1,000 kg with a pointing accuracy of 0.01° and an orientation stability of 1 to 2 arc seconds every 20 seconds. The payload has a mass below 335 kg and consumes about 300 watts. The platform's pointing accuracy is lower than 0.01°, the measurement accuracy is lower than 1 arc second and the orientation drift is below 0.0004°/s. ASO-S has three instruments: - The Full-Disc Vector Magnetograph (FMG) instrument is intended to map the magnetic field of the photosphere over the entire solar disk. It includes an imager, an optical polarization system and a CCD detector. - The Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) camera should image the whole solar disk in X-rays. The instrument is optimized to take images of solar flares. - A set of three LST (Lyman-alpha Solar Telescope) telescopes is used to observe the Lyman-alpha line (121.6 nm) of solar flares up to a distance of several solar radii from the Sun's disk. These three telescopes are SDI (to obtain an image of the solar disk), SCI (coronagraph for observation between 1.1 and 2.5 solar radii) and WST (white light emitted by the solar disk used for calibration purposes).
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Epsilon | RAISE-3 & Others
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | JPNUchinoura Space Center, Japan
Oct. 7, 2022, 12:47 a.m.
Status: Go for Launch
Mission:
RAISE-3 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-3) is a satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 7 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Smart Dragon 3 | CentiSpace-1 S5 & S6 (?)
China Rocket Co. Ltd. | CHNTai Rui, People's Republic of China
Oct. 7, 2022, 1:20 p.m.
RS1 | Maiden Flight
ABL Space Systems | USAPacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA
October 10, 2022
Proton-M/Blok DM-03 | AngoSat-2
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
TBD October, 2022
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
The AngoSat 2 is a communications satellite built for Angola to replace the failed AngoSat 1. The Angosat Project calls for development of a communications satellite with C- and Ku-band transponders, its launch into a geostationary orbit and development of the ground communication and TV broadcasting infrastructure. In August 2019 it was revealed the replacement satellite is being built by ISS Reshetnev (Bus) and Airbus Defence & Space (payload). Construction has started in February 2018.
Geostationary OrbitFirefly Alpha
FLTA002 (To The Black)
Space Launch Complex 2W - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USASecond test flight of the Firefly Alpha small sat launcher developed by Firefly Aerospace.
Long March 6
Shiyan 16 A/B & Shiyan 17
Launch Complex 16 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China3 Chinese classified satellites
Long March 2D
Yaogan 36
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China3 Chinese military reconnaissance satellites.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-35
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 52 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Kuaizhou
Shiyan 14 & Shiyan 15
Unknown Pad - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China2 Chinese classified satellites.
Delta IV Heavy
NROL-91
Space Launch Complex 6 - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAClassified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Soyuz 2.1a
Soyuz MS-22
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanSoyuz MS-22 will carry Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Prokopeyev, Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio to the International Space Station aboar…
Long March 2D
Yunhai-1-03
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaThe Yunhai-1 satellite is designed for detecting environmental elements in the atmosphere and ocean, the space environment, disaster prevention and r…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-34
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 54 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Electron
The Owl Spreads Its Wings
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandSecond of three launches of a StriX satellite as part of Synspective’s SAR constellation. StriX-1 can gather high resolution Earth observation data r…
