Upcoming Spaceflight Launches
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Electron | STP-27RM
Rocket Lab Ltd | USAWallops Island, Virginia, USA
April 30, 2021, 11 p.m.
Electron | RASR-3
Rocket Lab Ltd | USAOnenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
April 30, 2021, 11 p.m.
Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (Uncrewed)
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
May 1, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Test Flight
This is the second uncrewed test flight for the Starliner spacecraft. Reflight of the OFT mission will allow Boeing to demonstrate readiness of the spacecraft and implement corrections to the problems which were found during the first OFT flight.
Low Earth Orbit
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 7
Russian Space Forces | RUSVostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
May 1, 2021, midnight
Soyuz 2.1b | Uzlovoy Module (UM) "Prichal"
Russian Space Forces | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 1, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Human Exploration
The UM (Uzlovoy Module) or NM (Node Module) is a node to be added to the Russian part of the ISS complex. It is also named Prichal. UM will be delivered by a modified Progress space tug, called Progress-M-UM. The UM will be docked to the nadir port of the MLM (Nauka) module, providing four ports to mount additional modules and one docking port for cargo and crew spacecrafts.
Low Earth Orbit
Ariane 5 ECA | Star One D2 & Eutelsat Quantum
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
May 31, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Communications
Star One D2 is a 6.2 tons satellite built by Space Systems Loral for operator Star One, subsidiary of Brazilian Embratel. Its architecture is based on a SSL-1300 platform and equipped with C, X, Ku and Ka-band transceivers. It will provide communications services to Latin America for at least 15 years. Eutelsat Quantum is an experimental communications satellite carrying a payload able to be reconfigured by software. It is developed by ESA, Eutelsat and Airbus Defence and Space.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Atlas V 421 | SBIRS GEO-5
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
May 31, 2021, midnight
LauncherOne | Ignis & others
Virgin Orbit | USAAir launch to orbit
June 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V 551 | ViaSat-3 series satellite
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
June 1, 2021, midnight
Ariane 5 ECA | SES-17
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
June 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 17
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.
Starship Prototype
10 km Flight
Launch Pad A - SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USAThe SN10 Starship performed a test flight similar to SN8 and SN9. It launched up to an altitude of 10 km or 33,000 ft, did a belly flop maneuver foll…
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Arktika-M No.1
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanArktika-M ("Arctic-M") is a series of Earh observation satellites which will gather meteorological and hydrological data on polar region. Arktika-M s…
PSLV-DL
Amazonia & 18 others
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Sriharikota, Republic of IndiaAmazonia 1 is a Brazilian optical Earth observation satellite of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). This satellite will further streng…
Long March 4C
Long March 4C
Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaAntares 230+
Cygnus CRS-2 NG-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson)
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 under…
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 19
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.
Soyuz 2.1a
Progress MS-16
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanThe Progress MS-16 Spacecraft will resupply the International Space Station.
Long March 3
TJSW-6
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaAlleged Chinese classified geosynchronous satellite. Payload identity uncertain.
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 18
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.
