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Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 9
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Aug. 2, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Confirmed
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 Orbit
Atlas V 551 | STP-3
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Aug. 15, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Dedicated Rideshare
Rideshare mission with the STPSat-6 satellite and six secondary payloads for the US Air Force. STPSat-6 carries the NNSA's Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System-3 (SABRS-3) payload and NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) experiment.
Geostationary Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-23
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Aug. 18, 2021, 10 a.m.
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Resupply
SpaceX will launch the cargo variant of its Dragon 2 spacecraft on their 23rd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Dragon will be filled with supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.
Low Earth Orbit
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 10
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Aug. 26, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Confirmed
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 Orbit
Vega | Pléiades Neo 4
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Aug. 31, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
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 4 is the second 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
Atlas V 511 | USSF-8
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Aug. 31, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 1 & 2
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SWOT - Surface Water and Ocean Topography
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 1, 2021, midnight
Terran 1 | Test Flight
Relativity Space | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Sept. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Inspiration4
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 15, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Human Exploration
Inspiration4 is the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit. Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, is donating the three seats alongside him aboard Dragon to individuals from the general public. The Inspiration4 crew will receive commercial astronaut training by SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, orbital mechanics, operating in microgravity, zero gravity, and other forms of stress testing. They will go through emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full mission simulations. The Crew Dragon spacecraft will remain in a 540 km high orbit for three days before reentering Earth's atmosphere for a soft water landing off the coast of Florida.
Low Earth Orbit Inspiration4 B1067 - Flight Proven ( ) UnknownLong March 2
Yaogan-30-09
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaThe Yaogan-30 is a series of military remote sensing satellites which are launched in triplets. The satellites are spaced by 120° in their orbit.
Falcon 9 Block 5
GPS III SV05
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAGPS-IIIA (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known …
Long March 2F
Shenzhou 12
Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaFirst crewed flight to the Chinese large modular space station.
Minotaur I
NROL-111
Launch Area 0 B - Wallops Island, Virginia, USAClassified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Pegasus XL
Odyssey (TacRL-2)
Vandenberg Space Force Base - Air launch to orbitPayload for the US Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Launch program. It is a space domain awareness satellite that was procured under the Space For…
Long March 2D
Beijing-3
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China0.5 m resolution Earth observation satellite for Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Company Ltd.
Falcon 9 Block 5
SXM-8
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USASXM-8 is a large high power broadcasting satellite for SiriusXM's digital audio radio service (DARS). Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) got in July 2016 …
Falcon 9 Block 5
Dragon CRS-2 SpX-22
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USASpaceX will launch the second cargo variant of its Dragon 2 spacecraft on their 22nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space …
Long March 3
Fengyun-4B
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaChina's geostationary meteorological satellite program FY-4 (Feng Yun 4) is the second generation of chinese geostationary meteorological satellites.
Long March 7
Tianzhou-2
201 - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaFirst cargo delivery mission to the Chinese large modular space station.
