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New Shepard | NS-13
Blue Origin | USACorn Ranch, USA
Sept. 27, 2020, 3 p.m.
Status: TBD
Mission:
This will be the 13th New Shepard mission and the 7th consecutive flight for this particular vehicle (a record), demonstrating its operational reusability. New Shepard will fly 12 commercial payloads to space and back on this mission, including the Deorbit, Descent, and Landing Sensor Demonstration with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate under a Tipping Point partnership. This is the first payload to fly mounted on the exterior of a New Shepard booster rather than inside the capsule, opening the door to a wide range of future high-altitude sensing, sampling, and exposure payloads.
Sub-Orbital NS-3 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas
Delta IV Heavy | NROL-44
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Sept. 28, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Soyuz 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: Go
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.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 12
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 28, 2020, 2:22 p.m.
MOMO | Flight 7
Interstellar Technologies | JPNTaiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
Sept. 30, 2020, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV04
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Sept. 30, 2020, 1:55 a.m.
Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-14 (S.S. Kalpana Chawla)
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems | USAWallops Island, Virginia, USA
Sept. 30, 2020, 2:26 a.m.
Status: Go
Mission: Resupply
This is the 15th planned flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 14th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. This Cygnus spacecraft carries the name of NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who was the first female astronaut of Indian descent.
Low Earth Orbit
Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-17
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 14, 2020, 5:45 a.m.
Status: TBD
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.
Atlas V 551 | STP-3
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 15, 2020, midnight
Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M | CAS500-1 & rideshare
Russian Space Forces | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 15, 2020, midnight
Long March 4
Haiyang 2C
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaHaiyang (Chinese: "Ocean"), abbreviated HY, is a marine remote sensing satellite series planned by China.
Long March 11
Gaofen-03-1
Mobile launch platform - Sea LaunchGaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), ...
Kuaizhou
Jilin-1-02C
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaJilin-1 is a series of Chinese commercial remote sensing satellites.
Astra Rocket 3.0
Maiden Flight
Launch Pad B - Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USAThis is the first orbital attempt of Astra Space small satellite launch vehicle. Rocket carries no payload for this flight.
Long March 4
Gaofen-11-02
Unknown Pad - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaGaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), ...
Long March 2F
Chinese Reusable Space Vehicle
Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaThe payload is an experimental reusable spacecraft. It is rumored to be a prototype of a reusable spaceplane (similar to Boeing X-37B vehicle). Th...
Starship Prototype
150m Hop
SpaceX South Texas Launch Site - SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USAThe Starship SN6 prototype will attempt to perform a 150m hop similar to the one successfully performed by its predecessor SN5.
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 11
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Vega
SSMS POC
Ariane Launch Area 1 - Kourou, French GuianaThe Vega POC (Proof Of Concept) flight will be the first mission of the SSMS (Small Spacecraft Mission Service), a modular carbon fiber dispenser, ...
Electron
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandThis return to flight mission is dedicated for Capella Space, an information services company providing Earth observation data on demand. Capella’...
