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Ariane 5 ECA+ | Syracuse 4B & Heinrich Hertz (H2Sat)
ArianeGroup | FRAKourou, French Guiana
June 16, 2023
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission:
Syracuse 4B is a French military communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space. Heinrich Hertz (H2Sat) is a small geostationary communications satellite built by OHB System and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to explore and test new broadband communications technologies.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Ariane 62 | Maiden Flight
ArianeGroup | FRAKourou, French Guiana
TBD January, 2024
Ariane 62 | CSO-3
ArianeGroup | FRAKourou, French Guiana
TBD March, 2024
Ariane 62 | 2 x Galileo
ArianeGroup | FRAKourou, French Guiana
TBD March, 2024
Ariane 64 | ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific
ArianeGroup | FRAKourou, French Guiana
TBD March, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
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 OrbitAriane 64 | GO-1
ArianeGroup | FRAKourou, French Guiana
TBD March, 2024
Ariane 62 | 2 x Galileo
ArianeGroup | FRAKourou, French Guiana
TBD March, 2024
Ariane 64 | Optus-11
ArianeGroup | FRAKourou, French Guiana
TBD March, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Optus-11 is a Ku-band communications satellite with a coverage zone encompassing Australia and New Zealand. Optus-11 incorporates a number of advanced technologies, especially the latest developments in digital processing, plus active antennas enabling the creation of several thousand beams.
Geostationary Transfer OrbitAriane 64 | MTG-S1
ArianeGroup | FRAKourou, French Guiana
TBD September, 2024
Ariane 64 | Project Kuiper (Ariane 6 #1)
ArianeGroup | FRAKourou, French Guiana
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Project Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude. 35-40 satellites will be carried on each Ariane 6 launch.
Low Earth OrbitFalcon 9
BADR-8
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAGeostationary communications satellite built by Airbus Defense and Space and based on the Eurostar Neo platform for Arabsat.
Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M
Kondor-FKA No.1
Cosmodrome Site 1S - Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian FederationThe Kondor-FKA is a small civilian radar Earth observation satellite designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a civilian counterpart to the Kondor-E sate…
Electron
TROPICS-3
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandLast two operational (TROPICS-06 & TROPICS-07) satellites for NASA's Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a…
SpaceShipTwo
VSS Unity 25
Spaceport America - Air launch to Suborbital flightVirgin Galactic return to space mission ahead of the first commercial flight.
Nuri
NEXTSat-2 & SNIPE
LC-2 - Naro Space Center, South KoreaThird flight of the KSLV-II "Nuri" launch vehicle, carrying NEXTSat-2 as well as SNIPE A through D.
Soyuz 2.1a
Progress MS-23 (84P)
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanProgress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Falcon 9
Axiom Space Mission 2
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAThis is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a professionally trained commander alongside three private ast…
Long March 2
MUST-1A/B & Luojia-2 01
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaMacau Science Satellite-1 (MUST-1A/B) are 2 magnetosphere research satellites from the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) aiming to st…
Falcon 9
Iridium-9 & OneWeb 19
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA5 spare satellites for the Iridium NEXT constellation and 16 satellites for the OneWeb constellation (15 of current generation and 1 demonstration sa…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-3
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
