CASC

Long March 6 | Unknown Payload

Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 16

Long March 6

SpaceX

Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Space X Starlink Mission Patch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-13

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: April 3, 2025 (PDT)
Launch Time: Thursday, April 3, 3:54 p.m. PDT, 2254 UTC - April 4 00:54 CEST.
Launch Window: Open until 8:39 p.m. PDT
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base...

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Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 27 second-generation Starlink internet satellites. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for Thursday, April 3, ...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, California

Unofficial Webcast

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-11

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-72

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Sergey Ryzhikov

Alexey Zubritsky

Jonny Kim

ROSCOSMOS

Soyuz MS-27 will carry two cosmonauts and one astronaut to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The crew consists of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky, and NASA astronaut Jonathan "Jonny" Kim.

Soyuz MS-27 Patch

Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-27

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz MS

Soyuz 2.1a

Coverage of the Launch of the Soyuz MS-27 Crew (Ryzhikov, Zubritsky, Kim) to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (Launch scheduled at 1:47 a.m. EDT).

Soyuz MS-27 Launch with Jonny Kim

Aisha Bowe

Amanda Nguyen

Gayle King

Katy Perry

Kerianne Flynn

Lauren Sánchez

Blue Origin

Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

NS-31 is the 11th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.

NS-31

New Shepard | NS-31

Corn Ranch

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

Crew Capsule 2.0

New Shepard

Landing Zone 1

32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Cargo Dragon 2

Arianespace

Biomass is an European Space Agency mission designed to measure the density of carbon stored in the world's forests. The spacecraft, built by Airbus Defence and Space, features the first civilian P-band synthetic aperture radar as well as a 12m-diameter deployable reflector from L3Harris made of over 900 km of gold-coated molybdenum 25µm wire.
With a minimum operational lifetime of 5 years in its 666km 6am/6pm sun-synchronous orbit, the global coverage achieved every 9 months allows to precisely monitor the evolution of forests over time.

Biomass Patch

Vega-C | Biomass

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-10

Project Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude.

Atlas V 551 | Project Kuiper (Atlas V #2)

Space Launch Complex 41

Atlas V 551

Firefly Aerospace

Sixth flight of the Firefly Alpha small satellite launcher, launching the demonstration mission for Lockheed Martin's new LM400 satellite bus, which will carry a communications payload. The satellite bus is customizable to support different missions, including remote sensing, communications, imagery and radar Earth observations. It can also support different kinds of orbits and launch configurations.

Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Message in a Booster)

Space Launch Complex 2W

Firefly Alpha

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

Gilmour Space Technologies

Maiden flight of Gilmour Space's orbital launch vehicle Eris.

Eris-1 | Maiden Flight

Bowen Orbital Spaceport

Eris Pad

Eris

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, consisting of two identical satellites that will orbit Earth in tandem (one following the other), will help understand magnetic re-connection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic re-connection occurs when activity from the Sun interacts with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | TRACERS

Unknown Pad

ISRO

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR satellite, will use advanced radar imaging to map the elevation of Earth's land and ice masses 4 to 6 times a month at resolutions of 5 to 10 meters. It is designed to observe and measure some of the planet's most complex natural processes, including ecosystem disturbances, ice-sheet collapse, and natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides.

Under the terms of the agreement, NASA will provide the mission's L band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a high-rate telecommunication subsystem for scientific data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder, and a payload data subsystem. ISRO will provide the satellite bus, an S band synthetic aperture radar, the launch vehicle, and associated launch services.

GSLV Mk II | NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

GSLV Mk. II

Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Lima

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

The Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System (EWS) Operational Demonstration-1 (OD-1) is a weather satellite for the United States Space Force. It is a prototype satellite made by General Atomics that will be place in LEO for a three-year demonstration mission of new EO/IR sensor technologies to various US military branches, and to act as a stop-gap for Defense Department needs for weather data.

Minotaur IV | EWS OD-1

Space Launch Complex 8

Minotaur IV

Peggy Whitson

Shubhanshu Shukla

Sławosz Uznański

Tibor Kapu

This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a professionally trained commander alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station. This crew will stay aboard space station for  at least eight days.

Ax-4 Patch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 4

Crew Dragon 2

Rocket Lab

Synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS.

Electron | iQPS Launch 2

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

Tianwen-2 is a planned Chinese asteroid sample return and comet orbiter mission due for launch in May 2025. The spacecraft will visit the Near Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), collecting samples from its surface using both touch-and-go and anchor-and-drill approaches. It will return the samples back to Earth around 2.5 years after launch, with the main spacecraft proceeding to visit the main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS in the mid-2030s.

Long March 3B/E | Tianwen-2

Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Long March 3B/E

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched.

This launch will feature a single satellite.

LVM-3 | BlueBird Block 2 #1

Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)

Ionosfera is a constellation of four ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites developed by for Roscosmos for the project Ionozond.

The satellites will operate on circular sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), at altitude of about 800 km and located in two orbital planes of two satellites each. 

The following science instruments are carried on the satellites:

* SPER/1 Plasma and energy radiation spectrometer
* SG/1 Gamma-ray spectrometer
* GALS/1 Galactic cosmic ray spectrometer / 1
* LAERTES On-board Ionosonde
* NBK/2 Low-frequency wave complex
* ESEP Ionospheric plasma energy spectrometer
* Ozonometer-TM Ozonometer
* MayaK On-board radio transmitters
* PES GPS-GLONASS device

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 3 & 4

Vostochny Cosmodrome

Cosmodrome Site 1S

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

First uncrewed orbital test flight of the Gaganyaan capsule.

LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1

Gaganyaan

TDS-01 (Technology Demonstration Satellite-01) is an Indian geostationary orbit technology demonstration satellite carrying payloads for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar and the CSIR-CEERI, Pilani. 

Payloads to be tested included an internally developed 300 mN electric powered thrusters, atomic clocks, travelling wave tube amplifiers (TWTA) & a quantum communication suite (QuTDS).

PSLV | TDS-01

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

PSLV

NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembourg Earth Observation System). Its purpose is to provide high resolution images to national and international governmental and military organizations such as NATO.

The 800 kg satellite is built by OHB Italia and is equipped with a very high-resolution optical camera with a ground reolution of 50 cm in an around 450 km high sun-synchronous orbit. It will have a operational life time of 7 years.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS

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