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Atlas V 401 | Lucy
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 16, 2021, 9:34 a.m.
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission:
Lucy is the first mission to explore and study Trojan asteroids. The Trojans are a type of asteroids that orbit the Sun in two groups, in front of and behind Jupiter in its orbit around our star. Since these asteroids have been in such stable orbits for billions of years, they are of great interest as remnants of early Solar System. Lucy is a NASA mission led by NASA Goddard and Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Over the course of 12 years, Lucy will fly by seven different Trojan asteroids and also one main belt asteroid. The complex trajectory to visit all targets will include several Earth gravity assists.
Heliocentric N/A
Atlas V 551 | STP-3
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Nov. 22, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Dedicated Rideshare
Rideshare mission with the STPSat-6 satellite and six secondary payloads for the US Air Force. STPSat-6 carries the NNSA's Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System-3 (SABRS-3) payload and NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) experiment.
Geostationary Orbit
Atlas V 511 | USSF-8
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Nov. 30, 2021, midnight
Atlas V 551 | ViaSat-3 series satellite
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Atlas V 551 | Silent Barker
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Atlas V 401 | JPSS 2 (Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft No. 2)
United Launch Alliance | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Earth Science
JPSS is a collaborative program between NOAA and NASA. JPSS-2 is one of five satellites that will comprise the JPSS constellation. These spacecraft gather global measurements of atmospheric, terrestrial and oceanic conditions, including sea and land surface temperatures, vegetation, clouds, rainfall, snow and ice cover, fire locations and smoke plumes, atmospheric temperature, water vapor and ozone.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Atlas V 421 | SBIRS GEO-6
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (Uncrewed)
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 31, 2022, 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 OrbitAtlas V 551 | USSF-12
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 31, 2022, midnight
Atlas V 541 | GOES-T
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Feb. 16, 2022, midnight
Atlas V 401
Landsat 9
Space Launch Complex 3E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USALandsat 9 is a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey to continue the Landsat program's critical role in monitoring, understanding a…
Long March 3
Beidou-4S (?)
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaProbable test satellite for the future 4th generation navigation satellite for the Chinese Beidou Navigation Satellite System. Payload identity highl…
Kuaizhou
Jilin-1-02D
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaJilin-1 is a series of Chinese commercial remote sensing satellites.
Long March 7
Tianzhou-3
Wenchang - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaSecond cargo delivery mission to the Chinese large modular space station.
Hapith I
Test Flight
Pad 1 - Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex, South AustraliaThe first Hapith I launch will be testing TiSPACE's hybrid rocket engine technology in preparation for the future Hapith V launch vehicle. Targeting …
Falcon 9
Inspiration4
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAInspiration4 is the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit. Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, is donating the thre…
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
OneWeb 10
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanA batch of 34 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consum…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 2-1
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 51 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz
Razbeg 1 (Kosmos 2551)
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationThe Russian Razbeg 1 is small military satellite optical reconnaissance satellite. It was built by NPP VNIIEM. It is likely the same satellite ide…
Long March 3
ChinaSat 9B
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaZhongxing-9B (ChinaSat 9B) is a Chinese communications satellite, that will replace the Zhongxing-9A satellite in orbit. The latter was launched in 2…
