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Electron | Ready, Aim, PREFIRE (PREFIRE 1)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
May 22, 2024, 7:15 a.m.
Status: Go for Launch
Mission:

First 6U Cubesat carrying a miniaturized IR spectrometer, covering 0- 45 μm at 0.84 μm spectral resolution, operating for one seasonal cycle for NASAs PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission.

Polar Orbit
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Electron | PREFIRE And Ice (PREFIRE 2)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
TBD June, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Second 6U Cubesat carrying a miniaturized IR spectrometer, covering 0- 45 μm at 0.84 μm spectral resolution, operating for one seasonal cycle for NASAs PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission.

Polar Orbit
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Electron | Kinéis 1-5

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
TBD June, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

First batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.

Low Earth Orbit
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Electron | 6x HawkEye 360

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Wallops Island, Virginia, USA
TBD September, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission. The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).

Low Earth Orbit
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Electron | StriX 6

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
TBD September, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Synthetic aperture radar satellites for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Electron | Capella Acadia 3

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Wallops Island, Virginia, USA
TBD September, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Payload consists of a single SAR Earth-imaging Acadia satellite, a new generation satellite designed, manufactured, and operated by Capella Space.

Low Earth Orbit
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Electron | StriX 5

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
TBD September, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Synthetic aperture radar satellites for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Electron | NZSA Venus Mission

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

NZSA Venus Mission is a small direct Venus entry probe with a single 1 kg low-mass, low-cost autofluorescing nephelometer riding on a satellite bus based on the Photon Upper stage of the Electron rocket. The probe mission will spend approximately 5 minutes in the Venus cloud layers, 48-60 km above the surface, collecting in situ measurements to search for organic molecules in cloud particles and constrain particle composition.

Heliocentric N/A
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Electron | 6x HawkEye 360

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Wallops Island, Virginia, USA
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission. The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).

Low Earth Orbit
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Electron | Kinéis 11-15

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Third batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.

Low Earth Orbit
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ZHTW 1-01
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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Falcon 9
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Starlink Group 6-56
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Long March 6C
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2 days, 2 hours ago
Maiden Flight
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Carried 4 Earth observation satellites to orbit: * Haiwangxing-01, 239 kg X-band SAR satellite built by SAST for Zhihui Space Tech * Zhixing-1C, X-…

Falcon 9
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2 days, 11 hours ago
Starlink Group 6-57
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Long March 5
Success
5 days, 19 hours ago
Chang'e 6
101 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

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SR75
Success
6 days ago
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Pad 1 - Koonibba Test Range, South Australia

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Falcon 9
Success
6 days, 2 hours ago
Starlink Group 6-55
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9
Success
6 days, 10 hours ago
WorldView Legion 1 & 2
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

WorldView Legion is a constellation of Earth observation satellites built and operated by Maxar. Constellation is planned to consist of 6 satellites …

Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 3 days ago
Starlink Group 6-54
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 4 days ago
Galileo L12 (FOC FM25 & FM27)
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system. Originally planned for launch on Soyuz-ST and then Ariane 6 but both were unavailable. Gali…

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