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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Koreasat 6A
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
The Koreasat 6A spacecraft, built by Thales Alenia Space, will have 20 transponders for fixed satellite services and six for TV broadcasting to replace the Koreasat 6 launched in 2010. Koreasat 6A will be based on the manufacturer’s Spacebus 4000B2 platform and is expected to weigh about 3.5 metric tons at launch. It will be designed to operate for at least 15 years.
Geostationary Transfer OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership "in situ" to the agency.
Lunar OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander
SpaceX | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-22
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD February, 2025
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD February, 2025
Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD February, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models. IMAP launch also includes several secondary payloads from NASA, which are: a small lunar orbiter called Lunar Trailblazer, space weather satellite SWFO-L1, GLIDE mission to study far ultraviolet emission in exosphere and a solar sail mission Solar Cruiser.
Heliocentric L1Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD February, 2025
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C IM-3
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD March, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
This is the third mission to the Moon for Intuitive Machines with its Nova-C lunar lander. It is to deliver 130 kg of payloads to the lunar surface. This mission also includes a rideshare possibility due to available excess capacity on the launch vehicle.
Lunar OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | MRV-1
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD March, 2025
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SPHEREx & PUNCH
SpaceX | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD April, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies. It also will search for water and organic molecules – essentials for life as we know it – in regions where stars are born from gas and dust, known as stellar nurseries, as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with SPHEREx. It consists of four suitcase-sized satellites, which will focus on the Sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona) and how it generates the solar wind. The spacecraft also will track coronal mass ejections – large eruptions of solar material that can drive large space weather events near Earth – to better understand their evolution and develop new techniques for predicting such eruptions.
Polar OrbitNew Shepard
NS-25
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USATwenty-fifth flight of New Shepard carrying six passengers.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-59
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Kosmos 2576
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationRussian military payload of unknown purposes. Hitchhiking Payloads: SITRO-AIS 53-56; Zorkiy-2M-4 & 6
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 8-7
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-58
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 4C
Shiyan 23
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaSatellite officially named for "space environment detection" purposes, exact details unknown.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 8-2
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 3
ZHTW 1-01
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaZhihui Tianwang 1-01 are 2 experimental Medium Earth Orbit communication satellites in a collaboration between Tsinghua University, SAST and the Shan…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-56
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 6C
Maiden Flight
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaCarried 4 Earth observation satellites to orbit: * Haiwangxing-01, 239 kg X-band SAR satellite built by SAST for Zhihui Space Tech * Zhixing-1C, X-…
