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Starship SN15 | 10 km Flight
SpaceX | USASpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA
April 20, 2021, 8 p.m.
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Suborbital
The SN15 Starship prototype will perform a test flight similar to SN8 to SN11. It will launch up to an altitude of 10 km or 33,000 ft and do a belly flop maneuver followed by a controlled descent to the landing pad.
Suborbital SN15 - Maiden Flight SpaceX Starship Landing Pad
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX USCV-2 (NASA Crew Flight 2)
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 22, 2021, 10:11 a.m.
Status: Go for Launch
Mission: Human Exploration
SpaceX Crew-2 will be the second crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the third overall crewed orbital flight. It will use the same Falcon 9 first stage as the Crew-1 mission and the same Crew Dragon capsule as the Demo-2 mission (Endeavour).
Low Earth Orbit B1061 - Flight Proven ( ) Unknown
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 6
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSVostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
April 25, 2021, 10:14 p.m.
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission: Communications
A batch of 36 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Interned 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 Orbit
Delta IV Heavy | NROL-82
United Launch Alliance | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
April 26, 2021, 7:39 p.m.
Vega | Pléiades Neo 3
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
April 28, 2021, 1:50 a.m.
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission:
Pléiades Neo is a constellation of four optical high-resolution Earth observation satellites built and operated by Airbus. It is a dual purpose constellation, serving both civilian and military purposes. Pléiades Neo 3 is the first satellite in the constellation which is to deliver imagery with spatial resolution of 30 cm. It is launched along with several rideshare payloads.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 24
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
April 28, 2021, 4:05 a.m.
Long March 5B | Tianhe-1
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | CHNWenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
April 29, 2021, 3:18 a.m.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 30, 2021, midnight
Firefly Alpha | Maiden Flight
Firefly Aerospace | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
April 30, 2021, midnight
Soyuz 2.1a | Bars-M No. 3
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 30, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
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 OrbitNew Shepard
NS-15
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USAFifteenth flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. During the mission, astronaut operational exercises will be conducted in preparation for hum…
Soyuz 2.1a
Soyuz MS-18
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanSoyuz MS-18 begins expedition 65 by carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the International …
Long March 4B
Long March 4B
Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaFalcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 23
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 4C
Gaofen-12-02
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, 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), a …
Starship Prototype
10 km Flight
Launch Pad B - SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USAThe SN11 Starship prototype performed a test flight similar to SN8, SN9 and SN10. It launched up to an altitude of 10 km or 33,000 ft and did a belly…
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
OneWeb 5
Cosmodrome Site 1S - Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian FederationA batch of 36 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Interned broadband service for individual consum…
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 22
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Electron
They Go Up So Fast
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandThe Electron rocket will carry seven satellites to low Earth orbit: one Earth-observation satellite for BlackSky, two Internet-Of-Things (IoT) nanosa…
Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M
CAS500-1 & rideshare
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanCAS500-1 is the first of two South Korean Earth observation satellites. These spacecraft feature the AEISS-C imaging system with a ground resolution …
