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Electron | CAPSTONE
Rocket Lab Ltd | USAOnenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
March 19, 2022, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Planetary Science
CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) is a 12-U cubesat mission to test operations in near rectiliniar halo orbit around the Moon, which is to be used for the Lunar Gateway space station. Mission will verify the near rectilinear halo orbit characteristics, spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation services in that orbit, and provide valuable experience of small sat launch to the Moon.
Lunar OrbitElectron | NROL-162 (RASR-3)
Rocket Lab Ltd | USAOnenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
April 30, 2022, midnight
Electron | NROL-199 (RASR-4)
Rocket Lab Ltd | USAOnenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
April 30, 2022, midnight
Electron | ACS3 & others
Rocket Lab Ltd | USAOnenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
June 1, 2022, midnight
Long March 2D
Shiyan 13
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaChinese satellite declared for technological demonstration purposes, details TBD.
LauncherOne
Above the Clouds
Mojave Air and Space Port - Air launch to orbitMission to a 500 km circular orbit inclined at 45 degrees carrying eight R&D satellites from US government agencies with communications and navigatio…
Falcon 9
Transporter 3 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USATransporter 3 mission is a dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commerci…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-5
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 49 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Simorgh
3 unknown payloads
Imam Khomeini Spaceport - Semnan Space Center, Islamic Republic of IranThree unknown research payloads are reported to have been sent into space, according to the Iranian Ministry of Defense. However, no new objects are …
Long March 3
TJSW-9
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaChinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.
Long March 2D
Tianhui 4
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaChinese cartography satellite, details TBD.
Angara A5/Persey
Dummy payload
35/1 - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationThis is the third test flight of Angara A5 launch vehicle and its first flight with Persey upper stage. Since it's a test flight, the rocket carries …
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
OneWeb 12
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanA batch of 36 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consum…
Long March 4C
Zhiyuan 1-02E
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaZY-1 02E is a Chinese Earth observation satellite. The primary objective is to acquire high-resolution (5 meter) panchromatic and multispectral image…
