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Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 Americas
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD January, 2023
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 Orbit B1053 - Flight Proven ( ) Unknown B1052 - Flight Proven ( ) UnknownFalcon Heavy | USSF-67
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD January, 2023
Falcon Heavy | USSF-52
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD April, 2023
Falcon Heavy | Jupiter-3
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD June, 2023
Falcon Heavy | Psyche & EscaPADE
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD October, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Planetary Science
Psyche is a NASA interplanetary mission to visit the main belt asteroid of the same name, 16 Psyche. Spacecraft will take 4 years and one Mars flyby to reach the asteroid, which is of particular interest due to being comprised mostly of iron and nickel. Psyche is theorized to be a remnant of an early planet's core, and may offer insights into how solar system formed and evolved. The mission is led by Arizona State University, with NASA JPL being responsible for mission management and operations. This launch also includes a secondary payload: Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), which will study the Martian atmosphere.
Heliocentric N/AFalcon Heavy | GOES-U
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD April, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S Series (GOES-S) is the second of the next generation of geostationary weather satellites. The four satellites of the series will provide advanced imaging with increased spatial resolution and faster coverage for more accurate forecasts, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and improved monitoring of solar activity.
Geostationary Transfer OrbitFalcon Heavy | Gateway PPE & HALO
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD May, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Human Exploration
The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) are the foundational elements of NASA's lunar-orbiting space station "Gateway". The PPE is a 60-kilowatt class solar electric propulsion spacecraft that also will provide power, high-speed communications, attitude control and the capability to move the Gateway to different lunar orbits. The HALO is the pressurized living quarters where astronauts who visit the Gateway, often on their way to the Moon, will work. It will provide command and control and serve as the docking hub for the outpost. HALO will support science investigations, distribute power, provide communications for visiting vehicles and lunar surface expeditions, and supplement the life support systems aboard Orion, NASA’s spacecraft that will deliver Artemis astronauts to the Gateway.
Lunar OrbitFalcon Heavy | Europa Clipper
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD October, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Planetary Science
Europa Clipper is the first dedicated mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. Mission is developed by NASA and comprises of an orbiter spacecraft, which, while in orbit around Jupiter, will perform numerous flybys over Europa. Europa Clipper payload suit included high-resolution cameras and spectrometers for imaging Europa's surface and thin atmosphere, an ice-penetrating radar to search for subsurface water, and a magnetometer and gravity measurements to measure the moon's magnetic field and unlock clues about its ocean and deep interior.
Heliocentric N/A Unknown FH - Maiden Flight Atlantic Unknown FH - Maiden Flight Atlantic Unknown FH - Maiden Flight AtlanticFalcon Heavy | VIPER
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD November, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Lunar Exploration
NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is a mobile robot that will go to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice that could eventually be harvested to sustain human exploration on the Moon, Mars — and beyond. VIPER represents the first resource mapping mission on another celestial body.
Lunar OrbitFalcon Heavy | Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD October, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA infrared space telescope with a 2.4 m (7.9 ft) wide field of view primary mirror and two scientific instruments. The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) is a 300.8-megapixel multi-band visible and near-infrared camera, providing a sharpness of images comparable to that achieved by the Hubble Space Telescope over a 0.28 square degree field of view, 100 times larger than imaging cameras on the Hubble. The Coronagraphic Instrument (CGI) is a high-contrast, small field of view camera and spectrometer covering visible and near-infrared wavelengths using novel starlight-suppression technology. Roman objectives include a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing, and probing the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structure, with the goal of measuring the effects of dark energy, the consistency of general relativity, and the curvature of spacetime.
Sun-Earth L2Long March 2
Shenzhou 15
Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaFourth crewed flight to the Chinese large modular space station.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Glonass-M No. 61 (Kosmos 2564)
43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationGlonass-M, also known as Uragan-M, are the second generation of Uragan satellite design used for GLONASS satellite navigation system. GLONASS is a Ru…
Long March 2D
Yaogan 36 Group 03
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China3 Chinese military reconnaissance satellites.
Falcon 9
Dragon CRS-2 SpX-26
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA26th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commer…
PSLV-XL
EOS-6 (Oceansat-3) & rideshare
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Sriharikota, Republic of IndiaOceansat-3 is a part of ISRO's Oceansat program. Its main purpose is ocean observation, which includes gathering ocean color data, sea surface temper…
Falcon 9
Eutelsat 10B
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAEutelsat 10B is an all-electric geostationary communications satellite equipped with two multi-beam HTS Ku-band payloads able to provide a throughput…
Space Launch System (SLS)
Artemis I
Launch Complex 39B - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAArtemis I (previously Exploration Mission 1) is the first flight on Space Launch System and the second flight of Orion crew spacecraft. Mission is pl…
Ceres-1
Jilin-1 High Resolution 03D-08, 51 to 54
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of China5 new Earth observation satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation.
Long March 4C
Yaogan 34-03
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaOfficially described as an optical remote-sensing satellite built by SAST.
Falcon 9
Galaxy 31 & 32
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAGalaxy 31, 32 are two geostationary communications satellites manufactured by Maxar and operated by Intelsat.
