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Atlas V 541 | Mars 2020 (Perseverance rover & Ingenuity helicopter)
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
July 30, 2020, 11:50 a.m.
Status: TBD
Mission: Robotic Exploration
Atop this ULA Atlas V rocket will be Perseverance, a car-sized rover which will explore an ancient river delta on Mars. Armed with a suite of six scientific instruments, Perseverance will primarily hunt for clues to the planet's distant past, and hopefully uncover signs of ancient life and habitability. The rover also carries an experiment that'll convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, a box-sized helicopter named Ingenuity that'll demonstrate powered flight on Mars, and a system that enables the rover to leave behind samples for later retrieval and return to Earth during NASA and ESA's ambitious sample return mission later this decade.
Atlas V 531 | NROL-101
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Sept. 1, 2020, midnight
Atlas V 511 | USSF-8
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 1, 2020, midnight
Atlas V 551 | STP-3
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 1, 2020, midnight
Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (Uncrewed)
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 1, 2020, midnight
Status: TBD
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 | ViaSat-3 series satellite
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V 401 | Landsat 9
United Launch Alliance | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Jan. 14, 2021, midnight
Status: TBD
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 Orbit
Atlas V 421 | SBIRS GEO-5
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
March 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Crewed Flight Test
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
April 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V N22 | USCV-2 (Starliner-1)
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
July 1, 2021, midnight
Status: TBD
Mission: Human Exploration
USCV-2 (US Crew Vehicle-2), also known as Starliner-1, is the first operational crewed flight of the Boeing Starliner vehicle. It will take NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on what is planned as the first long duration mission of Starliner to International Space Station.
Kuaizhou-11
Maiden Flight
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaFirst flight of the new solid launcher developed by ExPace, subsidiary of CASIC. It will carry 2 communication satellites on this launch.
Long March 3
APStar-6D
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaAPStar-6D is a commercial communications satellite for APT Satellite Company Ltd under an end-to-end contract signed with China Great Wall Industry...
Shavit-2
Ofek-16
Unknown - Palmachim Airbase, State of IsraelOfek is a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites.
Long March 2D
Chuangxin 3A (02)
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaChuangxin is a series of experimental small satellites developed by China Academy of Science.
Electron
Pics Or It Didn’t Happen
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand‘Pics Or It Didn’t Happen’ is the 13th mission for Rocket Lab. It was planned to deploy seven imaging small satellites to a 500km circular low Eart...
Long March 4
Gaofen Multimode
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaGaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), ...
Falcon 9 Block 5
GPS III SV03 "Columbus"
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAGPS-IIIA (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (know...
Long March 3
Beidou-3 G3
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaThis satellite is a part of the geostationary component of the 3rd phase of the Chinese Beidou (Compass) satellite navigation system. It features a...
Long March 2D
Gaofen-9-03
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaGaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), ...
MOMO
Flight 5
Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan - Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, JapanInterstellar Technologies will launch the 'MOMO' observation rocket on its fifth mission.
