Arianespace

Third of EUMETSAT's third generation of weather satellite.

VA270 Patch

Ariane 62 | MTG-I2

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 4

Ariane 62

On August 27 2026, Arianespace will launch the MTG-I2 meteorological satellite with the Ariane 62 configuration from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
The mission is expected to last approximatively 36 minutes from lift-off to satellite separation.
The mission MTG-I2 will mark the fourth Ariane 6 launch of the year and the first to a geostationary orbit.
 
Liftoff is scheduled for August 27, 2026, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, within the following window:
 
16:10 – 18:40 (Washington, D.C.)
17:10 – 19:40  (Kourou)
20:10-22:40 (UTC)
22:10 – 00:40 (Paris/Berlin)

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Flight VA270 | MTG-I2 | Ariane 6 | Arianespace

Official Webcast

Le 27 août 2026, Arianespace lancera le satellite météorologique MTG-I2 à bord d'une Ariane 62 depuis le port spatial européen de Kourou, en Guyane française.
Le vol durera approximativement 36 minutes entre le décollage et la séparation du satellite.
Le lancement de MTG-I2 représentera la quatrième mission de l'année pour Ariane 6 et sa première mission vers l'orbite de transfert géostationnaire (GTO).
 
Le décollage est prévu le 27 août 2026 depuis le Centre spatial guyanais, au cours de la fenêtre suivante :
 
16:10 – 18:40 (Washington, D.C.)
17:10 – 19:40  (Kourou)
20:10-22:40 (UTC)
22:10 – 00:40 (Paris)

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Vol VA270 | MTG-I2 | Ariane 6 | Arianespace

SpaceX

Landing Zone 40

Landing Zone 2

Atlantic Ocean

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA infrared space telescope with a 2.4 m (7.9 ft) wide field of view primary mirror and two scientific instruments. The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) is a 300.8-megapixel multi-band visible and near-infrared camera, providing a sharpness of images comparable to that achieved by the Hubble Space Telescope over a 0.28 square degree field of view, 100 times larger than imaging cameras on the Hubble. The Coronagraphic Instrument (CGI) is a high-contrast, small field of view camera and spectrometer covering visible and near-infrared wavelengths using novel starlight-suppression technology. Roman objectives include a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing, and probing the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structure, with the goal of measuring the effects of dark energy, the consistency of general relativity, and the curvature of spacetime.

Falcon Heavy | Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Falcon Heavy

Tune in to watch our newest orbiting observatory launch to space. Our Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to lift off at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 UTC) on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a deep, panoramic view of the cosmos, producing images over 100 times larger than our Hubble Space Telescope, but with the same crisp resolution. With its wide view and sophisticated host of tools, Roman will help us discover new exoplanets and untangle cosmic mysteries such as the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

It will make its home in orbit 1 million miles away from Earth at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, where gravitational forces balanc...

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launch

Roman Space Telescope Mission

Watch the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is equipped with tools to detect and study exoplanets orbiting distant stars.

Russian Space Forces

Unknown classified satellite(s) for the Russian military.

Angara 1.2 | Kosmos (Unknown Payload)

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

35/1

Angara 1.2

CASC

Long March 12A Landing Site

Second test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket. Payload identities are TBD.

Long March 12A | Flight 2

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Long March 12A Pad

Long March 12A

Galactic Energy

First test launch of Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1 rocket.

Pallas-1 Y1 Mission Patch

Pallas-1 | Demo Flight

Pallas-1 Launch Pad

Pallas-1

Rocket Lab

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Owl Around The World Patch

Electron | Owl Around The World (StriX Launch 11)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Unknown Pad

Electron

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 15-23

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Starlink Mission

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-24

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-35 (96P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1b

Jessica Watkins

Joshua Kutryk

Luke Delaney

Sergey Teteryatnikov

SpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-13

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Crew Dragon 2

Avio S.p.A

Sentinel-3C is the third satellite in the Sentinel-3 constellation, which provides high-accuracy optical, radar and altimetry data for marine and land services.

The Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite is a part of ESA's Earth Explorer program. The satellite will map vegetation fluorescence to quantify photosynthetic activity.

FLEX Mission Patch

Vega-C | Sentinel-3C & FLEX

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3.

Starship IFT patch

Starship | Flight 14

Starbase

Orbital Launch Pad 2

Starship V3

Tranche 1 Transport Layer F is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites.

The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer F

Tranche 1 Tracking Layer A is one of five missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer constellation, which will provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer A

Tranche 1 Tracking Layer C is one of five missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer constellation, which will provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer C

Amazon Leo, formerly known as 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.

45 satellites will be carried on each Vulcan launch.

Vulcan VC6L | Amazon Leo (LV-01)

Space Launch Complex 41

Vulcan VC6L

Innospace

Second orbital launch attempt for the South Korean start-up Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle.

Spaceward Patch

HANBIT-Nano | Flight 2

Alcântara Launch Center

HANBIT Pad

HANBIT-Nano

Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 5

ISRO

This is a replacement satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. The constellation will provide India with an alternative to GPS and will be used for military and civilian use. Located at a geosynchronous orbit, the system will be operated by the Indian government.

GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1L (NVS-03)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

GSLV Mk. II

Innospace's first in-house test satellite, 'InnoSat-0', will test various technologies for future development of satellites by Innospace themselves. The satellite will be deployed using Korean company SpaceBey’s specialized deployer.

HANBIT-Nano | InnoSat-0

LOXSAT 1 is a demonstration satellite of a complete cryogenic oxygen fluid management system in orbit, developed by Eta Space and sponsored by NASA's Tipping Point program.

The system will be integrated on a Rocket Lab Photon-LEO satellite bus and collect critical cryogenic fluid management data in orbit for 9 months, demonstrating capabilities of in-space cryogenic storage and transferal. Eta Space plans to use technology developed for this mission to develop a truly commercial depot intended to serve multiple customers in the future.

Electron | LOXSAT 1

Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 6

Tranche 1 Tracking Layer E is one of five missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer constellation, which will provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer E

Launch Complex 3 Landing Pad

First low-altitude hop test of a Themis demonstrator, with a targeted altitude up to 100 m.

Themis Demonstrator | T1H-1

Esrange Space Center

Launch Complex 3B

Themis Demonstrator

Tranche 1 Transport Layer D is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites.

The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.

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