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Vega | Pléiades Neo 4
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Aug. 16, 2021, 1:50 a.m.
Status: Go for Launch
Mission:
Pléiades Neo is a constellation of four optical high-resolution Earth observation satellites built and operated by Airbus. It is a dual purpose constellation, serving both civilian and military purposes. Pléiades Neo 4 is the second satellite in the constellation which is to deliver imagery with spatial resolution of 30 cm. It is launched along with several rideshare payloads.
Sun-Synchronous OrbitVega | CERES
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Oct. 31, 2021, midnight
Ariane 5 ECA | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Nov. 30, 2021, midnight
Soyuz STB/Fregat | OneWeb 12
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSKourou, French Guiana
Nov. 30, 2021, 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 OrbitAriane 5 ECA | Hotbird 13F & GSAT 24
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Nov. 30, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Communications
Hotbird 13F is a communications satellite built by Airbus Defense and Space which will provide television broadcast services over Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa for Eutelsat. GSAT 24 is a communications satellite of the Indian Space Research Organization.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Soyuz STB/Fregat | 2 x Galileo
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSKourou, French Guiana
Nov. 30, 2021, midnight
Ariane 5 ECA | SES-17 & Ovzon-3
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Dec. 31, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
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. Ovzon-3 is a small geostationary communications satellite built by Maxar and designed to provide mobile broadband services for Swedish company Ovzon AB.
Geostationary Transfer OrbitAriane 5 ECA | Syracuse 4A
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Dec. 31, 2021, midnight
Vega | NAOS
Arianespace | FRAKourou, French Guiana
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Soyuz STB/Fregat | Euclid
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSKourou, French Guiana
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
MOMO v1
Flight 6
Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan - Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, JapanDespite the MOMO unit's number, this is the seventh flight of the sounding rocket. Company aims to reach space for the third time.
Ariane 5 ECA
Star One D2 & Eutelsat Quantum
Ariane Launch Area 3 - Kourou, French GuianaStar One D2 is a 6.2 tons satellite built by Space Systems Loral for operator Star One, subsidiary of Brazilian Embratel. Its architecture is based o…
Electron
STP-27RM (It’s a Little Chile Up Here)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandA U.S. Air Force experimental spacecraft. It will demonstrate the use of a deployable sensor, where the sensor’s mass is a substantial fraction of th…
Long March 2D
Tianhui-1-04
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaTH 1 (Tianhui-1 = "Sky drawing") is a Chinese stereo-topographic mapping satellite operated by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The satellites …
Proton-M
MLM Nauka
200/39 (200L) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanNauka (which means "Science" in Russian), also known as Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), is a new module of the russian segment of the ISS. It w…
New Shepard
NS-16
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USAFirst crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
Long March 2
Yaogan-30-10
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaNOTE: Payload identity not confirmed. The Yaogan-30 is a series of military remote sensing satellites which are launched in triplets. The satellit…
SpaceShipTwo
VSS Unity 22
Spaceport America - Air launch to Suborbital flightPowered flight of VSS Unity on the first fully crewed flight. Including the founder Sir Richard Branson.
Long March 6
Zhongzi Group 02 (Ningxia-1-02)
Launch Complex 16 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaThe Ningxin-1 satellites (also called Zhongzi) are a series of Chinese commercial remote sensing satellite owned by Ningxia Jingui Information Techno…
Long March 3
Tianlian 1-05
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaTianlian 1, also known as Tian Lian 1, TL-1, and CTDRS-1 is a Chinese data tracking and relay communications satellite series. Based on the DFH-3 sat…
