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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 14
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 21, 2020, 4:36 p.m.
Electron | In Focus
Rocket Lab Ltd | USAOnenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Oct. 21, 2020, 9:14 p.m.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 25, 2020, midnight
Status: TBD
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.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-108
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 31, 2020, midnight
Atlas V 531 | NROL-101
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 31, 2020, midnight
Kuaizhou-1A | Jilin-1-02F
ExPace | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
Oct. 31, 2020, midnight
Kuaizhou-1A | Jilin-1-02D
ExPace | CHNJiuquan, People's Republic of China
Oct. 31, 2020, midnight
MOMO | Flight 7
Interstellar Technologies | JPNTaiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
Oct. 31, 2020, midnight
Soyuz 2.1a | Bars-M No. 3
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 31, 2020, midnight
Status: TBD
Mission: Government/Top Secret
Bars-M is the second incarnation of the Bars project, which was started in the mid 1990ies to develop a successor for the Komtea class of area surveillance satellites. The original Bars project was halted in the early 2000s. In 2007, TsSKB-Progress was contracted for Bars-M, for which reportedly the Yantar-based service module was replaced by a new developed advanced service module. The Bars-M satellites feature an electro-optical camera system called Karat, which is developed and built by the Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association (LOMO), and a dual laser altimeter instrument to deliver topographic imagery, stereo images, altimeter data and high-resolution images with a ground resolution around 1 meter.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Long March 6 | Satellogic x 13
China Great Wall Industry Corporation | CHNTaiyuan, People's Republic of China
Oct. 31, 2020, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 13
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.
Soyuz 2.1A
Soyuz MS-17
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanSoyuz MS-17 begins expedition 63 by carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins to the I...
New Shepard
NS-13
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USAThis will be the 13th New Shepard mission and the 7th consecutive flight for this particular vehicle (a record), demonstrating its operational reus...
Long March 3
Gaofen 13
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, 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), ...
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 12
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.
Antares 230+
Cygnus CRS-2 NG-14 (S.S. Kalpana Chawla)
Launch Area 0 A - Wallops Island, Virginia, USAThis is the 15th planned flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 14th flight to the International Space Station und...
Soyuz 2.1B
Gonets-M27, Gonets-M28, Gonets-M29 and others
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationGonets-M are an upgraded version of Gonets satellites, derived from military communications system Strela-3. Gonets-M constellation is tasked with...
Long March 4
Huanjing 2A, 2B
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaHuanjing (abbreviated as HJ) is a constellation of environmental monitoring satellites. The HJ-2A and HJ-2B are 16-meter optical satellites which w...
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), ...
