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Ariane 5 ECA | SES-17 & Syracuse 4A
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Oct. 23, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Status: Go for Launch
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. Syracuse 4A is a French military communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Vega | CERES
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Nov. 30, 2021, midnight
Soyuz STB/Fregat | 2 x Galileo
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSKourou, French Guiana
Dec. 1, 2021, 12:35 a.m.
Ariane 5 ECA | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Dec. 18, 2021, 12:10 p.m.
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission:
The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope developed by NASA, ESA and CSA to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA's flagship astrophysics mission. Its primary mirror, the Optical Telescope Element, is composed of 18 hexagonal mirror segments which combine to create a 6.5 m diameter mirror, considerably larger than Hubble's 2.4 m mirror. This will allow JWST to provide improved infrared resolution and sensitivity over Hubble, and will enable a broad range of investigations across the fields of astronomy and cosmology, including observing some of the most distant events and objects in the universe, such as the formation of the first galaxies.
Sun-Earth L2Vega | NAOS
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Vega | THEOS-2
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Soyuz STB/Fregat | OneWeb 13
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSKourou, French Guiana
Jan. 6, 2022, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Communications
A batch of 34 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consumers. The constellation is planned to have around 648 microsatellites (of which 60 are spares), around 150 kg each, operating in Ku-band from low Earth orbit.
Polar Orbit
Vega-C | LARES-2 (Maiden flight)
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Jan. 31, 2022, midnight
Vega-C | KOMPSAT-7
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Feb. 28, 2022, midnight
Vega-C | Space Rider
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Feb. 28, 2022, midnight
Atlas V 401
Lucy
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USALucy 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 an…
Long March 2
Shenzhou 13
Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaSecond crewed flight to the Chinese Tiangong space station carrying Zhai Zhigang, commander, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, operators, on their second, …
Long March 2D
Xihe (CHASE)
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaXihe, also known as the Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE), is designed to test a newly developed satellite platform and conduct solar observations. T…
Soyuz 2.1b
OneWeb 11
Cosmodrome Site 1S - Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian FederationA batch of 36 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consum…
New Shepard
NS-18
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USANS-18 is the second crewed New Shepard flight, carrying 4 paying customers.
Soyuz 2.1a
Soyuz MS-19
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanSoyuz mission launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and carrying Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov as well as the Challenge movie c…
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
Shiyan 10
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaClassified test satellite which suffered an anomaly during launch. The launch vehicle has not been confirmed to be responsible for the failure.
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.
