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Atlas V 401 | Landsat 9
United Launch Alliance | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 16, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Earth Science
Landsat 9 is a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey to continue the Landsat program’s critical role in monitoring, understanding and managing the land resources needed to sustain human life. Landsat 9, like Landsat 8, will have a higher imaging capacity than past Landsats, allowing more valuable data to be added to the Landsat’s global land archive. Satellite will operaite in sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 705 km and has a mission lifetime of 5 years.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 11
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 18, 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
Ariane 5 ECA | Hotbird 13F & GSAT 24
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Sept. 30, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Communications
Hotbird 13F is a communications satellite built by Airbus Defense and Space which will provide television broadcast services over Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa for Eutelsat. GSAT 24 is a communications satellite of the Indian Space Research Organization.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Angara A5/Persey | Dummy payload
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 30, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 1-3
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 30, 2021, midnight
Long March 7 | Tianzhou-3
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | CHNWenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Sept. 30, 2021, midnight
Ravn | ASLON-45
Aevum | USAAir launch to orbit
Oct. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 1, 2021, midnight
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Luna 25
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 1, 2021, midnight
Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-19
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 5, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Human Exploration
Soyuz MS-19 will carry Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov as well as Klim Shipenko, a film producer and an actress to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Low Earth OrbitLong 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.
