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Atlas V 551 | ViaSat-3 series satellite
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (Uncrewed)
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 31, 2021, 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 | STP-3
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Feb. 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V 421 | SBIRS GEO-5
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
March 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V 511 | USSF-8
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
March 31, 2021, midnight
Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Crewed Flight Test
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
June 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V 551 | USSF-12
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Aug. 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V 401 | Landsat 9
United Launch Alliance | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Sept. 1, 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 OrbitAtlas V 401 | Lucy
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V 541 | GOES-T
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Dec. 1, 2021, midnight
H-IIA
JDRS-1
Yoshinobu Launch Complex - Tanegashima, JapanJDRS-1 is a Japanese Data Relay Satellite.
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 15
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 5
Chang'e 5
Wenchang - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaChang'e 5 is China's robotic lunar sample return mission, which is set to bring back at least 2 kg of lunar soils and rock samples. The probe will ...
Falcon 9 Block 5
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (Sentinel-6A; Jason-CS)
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg AFB, CA, USAThe Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich and Sentinel-6B make up the Sentinel-6 mission, also known as Jason Continuity of Service (Jason-CS), which is a pa...
Electron
Return to Sender
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand"Return to Sender" will loft 30 satellites to a sun-synchronous orbit at 500 km altitude for a range of customers, including TriSept, Unseenlabs, S...
Vega
SEOSAT-Ingenio & Taranis
Ariane Launch Area 1 - Kourou, French GuianaSEOSAT-Ingenio is a high-resolution optical imaging mission of Spain - the flagship mission of the Spanish space strategic plan. Its mission is dev...
Falcon 9 Block 5
SpX USCV-1 (NASA Crew Flight 1)
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USASpaceX's first operational flight of manned Dragon 2 vehicle.
Atlas V 531
NROL-101
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAClassified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Long March 3
Tiantong-1-02
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaDesigned by the CAST Institute (China Academy of Space Technology), a subsidiary of the Chinese aerospace group CASC and specialized in spacecraft ...
PSLV-DL
EOS-01 (RISAT-2BR2)
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Sriharikota, Republic of IndiaEOS-1 (previously known as RISAT-2BR2) is an imaging mission of ISRO using an active SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imager to provide continuity of...
