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Ariane 5 ECA | Star One D2 & Eutelsat Quantum
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
July 27, 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
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 OrbitAriane 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 OrbitVega | CERES
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Oct. 31, 2021, midnight
Ariane 5 ECA | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Nov. 30, 2021, midnight
Ariane 5 ECA | SES-17 & Ovzon-3
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Dec. 31, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Communications
SES-17 is a Ka-band high-throughput geostationary communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space designed to provide mobile internet services to airline passengers over the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean. Ovzon-3 is a small geostationary communications satellite built by Maxar and designed to provide mobile broadband services for Swedish company Ovzon AB.
Geostationary Transfer OrbitAriane 5 ECA | Syracuse 4A
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Dec. 31, 2021, midnight
Ariane 5 ECA | Measat-3d
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Vega | NAOS
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Vega | THEOS-2
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Long 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.
