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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-4
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 15, 2022, midnight
Astra Rocket 3 | TROPICS 2
Astra Space | USARonald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
April 30, 2022, midnight
Vega-C | LARES-2 (Maiden flight)
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
April 30, 2022, midnight
H-IIA 202 | XRISM & SLIM
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | JPNTanegashima, Japan
April 30, 2022, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Astrophysics
X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), formerly the X-Ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (XARM), is a replacement for the Hitomi satellite that malfunctioned few weeks after the launch. Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is a lunar probe that will target a landing on a small crater in Mare Nectaris, an area located near the moon's equator on the side facing Earth.
Lunar Orbit
Electron | NROL-162 (RASR-3)
Rocket Lab Ltd | USAOnenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
April 30, 2022, midnight
H-IIA 202 | IGS Radar-7
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | JPNTanegashima, Japan
April 30, 2022, midnight
Ariane 5 ECA+ | Measat-3d & GSAT 24
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
April 30, 2022, midnight
Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 series satellite
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 30, 2022, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Communications
The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.
Geostationary Transfer OrbitElectron | NROL-199 (RASR-4)
Rocket Lab Ltd | USAOnenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
April 30, 2022, midnight
Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M | Meteor-M No.2-3
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSVostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
April 30, 2022, midnight
Long March 2D
Shiyan 13
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaChinese satellite declared for technological demonstration purposes, details TBD.
LauncherOne
Above the Clouds
Mojave Air and Space Port - Air launch to orbitMission to a 500 km circular orbit inclined at 45 degrees carrying eight R&D satellites from US government agencies with communications and navigatio…
Falcon 9
Transporter 3 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USATransporter 3 mission is a dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commerci…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-5
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 49 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Simorgh
3 unknown payloads
Imam Khomeini Spaceport - Semnan Space Center, Islamic Republic of IranThree unknown research payloads are reported to have been sent into space, according to the Iranian Ministry of Defense. However, no new objects are …
Long March 3
TJSW-9
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaChinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.
Long March 2D
Tianhui 4
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaChinese cartography satellite, details TBD.
Angara A5/Persey
Dummy payload
35/1 - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationThis is the third test flight of Angara A5 launch vehicle and its first flight with Persey upper stage. Since it's a test flight, the rocket carries …
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
OneWeb 12
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanA batch of 36 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consum…
Long March 4C
Zhiyuan 1-02E
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaZY-1 02E is a Chinese Earth observation satellite. The primary objective is to acquire high-resolution (5 meter) panchromatic and multispectral image…
