Cai Xuzhe

Haozhe Wang

Lingdong Song

CASC

Eighth crewed flight to the Chinese space station.

Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 19

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921)

Shenzhou

Long March 2F/G

China launches its Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship. Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze will carry out the Shenzhou-19 manned mission to China's space station, with Cai as the comm...

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Live: Special coverage of China's Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship launch

Official Webcast

China launches its Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship in the early morning Oct. 30. Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze will carry out the Shenzhou-19 manned mission to China's space ...

LIVE: China Launches Shenzhou-19 Crewed Spaceship

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神舟十九号载人飞船发射任务

SpaceX

Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 20 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 9-9

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: October 30, 2024
Launch Time: 4:07 a.m. PDT, 11:07 UTC, 12:07 CEST
Launch Window: open til 5:40 a.m. PDT
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA
Targeted Orbit:...

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 9-9 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base - Space Affairs Live

Unofficial Webcast

Starlink Mission

A Shortfall of Gravitas

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-13

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Russian Space Forces

Russian military payload of unknown purposes.

Soyuz 2.1b | Kosmos (Unknown Payload)

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Unknown Pad

Soyuz 2.1b

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-10

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

DSN 3, also known as Kirameki 3, is a geostationary communications satellite to be used for military communications by the Japanese military.

H3-22 | DSN 3 (Kirameki 3)

Tanegashima Space Center

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2

H3-22

Unknown

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-77

Rocket Lab

Launch of a yet to identified satellite to SSO for an undisclosed customer. The customer is suspected to be Low Earth Orbit communication satellite constellation operator E-Space.
Launch contract was signed less than 2 months before launch.

Electron | Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

ROSCOSMOS

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 1 & 2

Vostochny Cosmodrome

Cosmodrome Site 1S

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

Landing Zone 1

31st 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.

NASA CRS-31 Patch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-31

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Cargo Dragon 2

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-29 (90P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1a

ISRO

Proba-3 (Project for On-Board Autonomy 3) is the first close formation flying mission for the European Space Agency (ESA). It consists of two independent, three-axis stabilised spacecraft flying 150 meters from one another with the ability to accurately control the attitude and separation of the two craft. Such formation flying will be maintained for 6 hours, creating ″artificial solar eclipse″ for the satellite below. 

The spacecraft pair will fly a highly elliptical orbit divided between periods of accurate formation flying around apogee, when payload operations will be possible, and periods of free flight.

PSLV-XL | Proba-3

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

PSLV XL

Thuraya 4-NGS is a communication satellite being built by Airbus Defense and Space for the UAE based Yahsat. Based on the all-electric Airbus Eurostar-Neo Platform, Thuraya 4-NGS will incorporate a large 12-meter L-band antenna and a payload with on-board processing providing advanced routing flexibility of up to 3200 channels with dynamic power allocation over a large number of spot beams.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Thuraya 4-NGS

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-2

Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 1

Blue Origin

Jacklyn

Maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, in addition to serving as New Glenn's first National Security Space Launch certification flight.

New Glenn | Maiden Flight

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

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

Transporter SpaceX Mission Patch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Four Astranis MicroGEO communications satellite inserted in a custom geostationary orbit, from where they conduct on-orbit maneuvers to reach their individual slots.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | 4x Astranis MicroGEO

WorldView Legion is a constellation of Earth observation satellites built and operated by Maxar. Constellation is planned to consist of 6 satellites in both polar and mid-inclination orbits, providing 30 cm-class resolution.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 5 & 6

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

Kinéis Patch

Electron | Kinéis 11-15

SXM-9 is the 10th high-powered, digital, audio radio satellite built by Maxar (SSL) for SiriusXM. The SXM-9 satellite will be based on Maxar’s proven 1300-class platform and built at the company’s manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. It is expected that SXM-9 will launch in 2024.  SXM-9 has a large, mesh, unfurlable reflector almost 10 meters in diameter that allows SiriusXM programming to reach its radios, including those in moving vehicles.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-9

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.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Koreasat 6A

The Kondor-FKA is a small civilian radar Earth observation satellite designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a civilian counterpart to the Kondor-E satellite.

The Kondor satellite features a S-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which can conduct both continous swath surweys or detailed spot surveys. The swath width is 10 km. Ground resolution is 1 to 2 m in spotlight mode, 1 to 3 m in stripmap mode and 5 to 30 m in ScanSAR mode.

Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M | Kondor-FKA No.2

Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M

Galactic Energy

Ceres-1 | Unknown Payload

Launch Area 95A

Ceres-1

GSAT-20 is an Indian geostationary Ka-band high-throughput communications satellite.

GSAT 20 is reportedly built on the I-6K unified modular bus and features a Ka-band high-throughput communications payload with 70 Gbps throughput utilizing multiple spot beams providing broadband services across the Indian region.

It will be the first fully Electric Propulsion/EP enabled satellite which can be five to six times more efficient than chemical-based propulsion. It will be the first ISRO made satellite to move from Geostationary transfer orbit to Geosynchronous orbit using Electric Propulsion.

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