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Falcon 9 Block 5 | SmallSat Rideshare Mission 1
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
March 1, 2020, midnight
Firefly Alpha | Maiden Flight
Firefly Aerospace | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
April 1, 2020, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SmallSat Rideshare Mission 2
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Oct. 1, 2020, midnight
Delta IV Heavy | NROL-82
Boeing | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Oct. 1, 2020, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sentinel-6A (Jason-CS)
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Nov. 1, 2020, midnight
Status: TBD
Mission: Earth Science
The Sentinel-6A mission, also known as Jason Continuity of Service (Jason-CS), is a partnership between NASA, NOAA, ESA, and EUMETSAT. This mission consists of two parts: the first one continues the long-term global sea surface height data record begun by first Jason satellites in 1992. This part of the mission will provide altimeter data necessary for ocean climate monitoring, ocean modelling and numerical ocean prediction, weather forecasting, marine meteorology, coastal altimetry and modelling. A secondary objective of the mission is to collect high-resolution vertical profiles of temperature, using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio-Occultation sounding technique, to assess temperature changes in the troposphere and stratosphere and to support numerical weather prediction. Sentinel-6A is to operate in a highly-inclined circular orbit at an altitude of 1336 km, with an operational mission lasting 5 years.
Low Earth OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | SmallSat Rideshare Mission 3
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Dec. 1, 2020, midnight
Atlas V 401 | Landsat 9
United Launch Alliance | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Dec. 1, 2020, 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 OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 1
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 4-7
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 1-3
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5
Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAWhen the Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket reaches Max-Q (maximum dynamic forces), the launch abort system of the Crew Dragon spacecraft will be triggered. ...
Ariane 5 ECA
Eutelsat Konnect & GSAT-30
Ariane Launch Area 3 - Kourou, French GuianaEutelsat Konnect is an all-electric, Ka-band geostationary communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space for Eutelsat. It will provide broa...
Kuaizhou
Kuaizhou
Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaLong March 2D
Long March 2D
Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaLong March 3
TJS-5 (TJSW-5)
Unknown - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaTJS-5 is a geostationary communications satellite. It offers satellite communication, television and broadcasting services, while also verifying h...
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 2
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 5
Shijian 20
Wenchang - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaShijian 20 is an experimental geostationary communications satellite. This is also a return-to-flight launch for Long March 5 after a July 2017 fai...
Rokot / Briz-KM
Gonets-M24, Gonets-M25, Gonets-M26 & Blits-M
133/3 (133L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationGonets-M are an upgraded version of Gonets satellites, derived from military communications system Strela-3. Gonets-M constellation is tasked with...
Proton-M
Elektro-L No.3
81/24 (81P) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanElektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture re...
Atlas V N22
CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test (Uncrewed)
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAThis is the first test flight of Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. Although Atlas V and Centaur upper stage successfully put...
