ROSCOSMOS

The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite designed by TsSKB-Progress.

In 2012, the development of the Arkon-2M radar satellite was stopped and instead the development of the Obzor-R was initiated.

The satellite features the BRLK X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar as the imaging instrument with a ground resolution of 500 m.

Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Unknown Pad

Soyuz 2.1a

CASC

Long March 8A | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8A

China's geostationary meteorological satellite program FY-4 (Feng Yun 4) is the second generation of chinese geostationary meteorological satellites.

Long March 3B/E | Fengyun-4C

Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)

Long March 3B/E

SpaceX

Landing Zone 4

CSG-3 is an Earth observation satellite for the Italian Space Agency, part of a reconnaissance constellation using synthetic aperture radars operating in the X-band.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | CSG-3

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

English

COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Mission

Official Webcast

A pair of Russian optical Earth observation satellites built by the Progress Rocket Space Centre for obtaining stereo images of the Earth's surface, with maximum resolution of 1.2 m in panchromatic mode and a swath width of 32 km.

50 small satellites will also be launched as ride-share payloads, including 3 from Iran.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | AIST-2T 01 & 02

Vostochny Cosmodrome

Cosmodrome Site 1S

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

China Rocket Co.

Possibly an Earth observation satellite for the Pakistan government's SUPARCO, details TBD.

Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload

Sea Launch

Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship

Smart Dragon 3

Long March 7A | Unknown Payload

Long March 7A

CAS500-2 is the second of two similar South Korean Earth observation satellites. These spacecraft feature the AEISS-C imaging system with a ground resolution of 0.5 m in panchromatic mode and 2 m in color mode. 

CAS500-4 is a wide area Earth-observation satellite with a wide-area electro-optical camera (swath width of 120 km and resolution of 5 m) to be mainly used by the Rural Development Administration and the Korea Forest Service for observing crops, agricultural water resources and forest resources.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | CAS500-2 & CAS500-4

Note: Name of payload is provisional.

Fourth launch of an ultimately 5 reconnaissance satellites for the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), with 1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite on this launch.

They will be launched to low Earth orbit between 600 and 700 km by 2025, enabling South Korea’s military to observe the nuclear-armed neighbor’s key military facilities every two hours with 30-50 centimeters resolution imagery, according to a 2019 report produced by the Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning.

The project is lead by the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), with input from Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Hanwha Systems and Thales Alenia Space.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | 425 Project Flight 4

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Note: Name of payload is provisional.

Fifth launch of an ultimately 5 reconnaissance satellites for the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), with 1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite on this launch.

They will be launched to low Earth orbit between 600 and 700 km by 2025, enabling South Korea’s military to observe the nuclear-armed neighbor’s key military facilities every two hours with 30-50 centimeters resolution imagery, according to a 2019 report produced by the Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning.

The project is lead by the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), with input from Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Hanwha Systems and Thales Alenia Space.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | 425 Project Flight 5

Arianespace

Microcarb is a small satellite designed to map sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2)—the most important greenhouse gas — on a global scale.

Vega-C | MicroCarb

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

Galactic Energy

First test launch of Galactic Energy’s Ceres-2 rocket.

Ceres-2 Y1

Ceres-2 | Demo Flight

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 95A

Ceres-2

CAS Space

First test launch of CAS Space’s Kinetica-2 rocket.

Kinetica 2 | Demo Flight

Launch Area 140

Kinetica 2

This is the 22nd flight of the Northrop Grumman's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 21st flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-22

Cygnus Enhanced

Space Pioneer

First test launch of Space Pioneer’s Tianlong-3 rocket.

Tianlong-3 | Demo Flight

Tianlong-3 Launch Pad

Tianlong-3

A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 29 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 6-88

Space Launch Complex 40

Launch Date:  December 21, 2025
Launch Time:  12:00 a.m. EST (0500 UTC, 06:00 CET)
Launch Window:  Open until 3:17 a.m. EST.
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA
Targeted Orbit: LEO (Low Earth Orbit) 
Launch Inclination: Southeast
Launch Status: Scheduled and announced

Mission: Starlink 6-88
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster B1101)
Flight for the Booster: First flight
Previous Flights of the Booster: None
Droneship: A Shortfall Of Gravitas

Price: $69,75 million (without payload)
Diameter: 3,7 m
Height: 70 meters
Payload to Orbit: 22,800 LEO / 8,300 GTO
Lift-Off Thrust: 7,607 kilonewtons
Fairing: Diameter 5,2 meters / Height 13 meters
Stages: 2

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth ...

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SpaceX launch of a batch of 29 Starlink v2-mini satellites for their second-generation high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation.

Launch window: December 20th from 00:00AM to 03:18AM EST (05:00-08:18 UTC)
Current T0: December 20th at 0:00AM EST (05:00 UTC)

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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 6-88

Unofficial Webcast

Starlink Mission

The Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope that will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars, as well as studying host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets through visible-light photometry and near-infrared spectroscopy.

Also launching on this launch are ride-share payloads under the "Falcon 9 Twilight mission", including satellites from Spire Global and Kepler Communications.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission

ISRO

Small Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD.

This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads.

PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

PSLV-DL

Isar Aerospace

Second test flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle, carrying several cubesats as part of the European Space Agency's “Boost!” program.

Spectrum | Flight Two

Andøya Spaceport

Orbital Launch Pad

Spectrum

Unknown

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

First Starlink launch to feature a Falcon 9 booster landing within The Bahamas waters operationally, after the trajectory was tested during launch of Starlink Group 10-12 in February 2025.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-36

Blue Origin

Jacklyn

First flight of Blue Origin's Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander.

New Glenn | Blue Moon Pathfinder

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

First uncrewed orbital test flight of the Gaganyaan capsule.

LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

Gaganyaan

Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)

12th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Maiden Flight of Starship V3

Starship IFT patch

Starship | Flight 12

Starbase

Orbital Launch Pad 2

Starship V3

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)

GSLV Mk. II

Rocket Lab

The NeonSat-1A, carrying a high-resolution optical camera, is designed to test the constellation capabilities of the South Korean government's Earth observation micro-satellite constellation NeonSat (New-space Earth Observation Satellite), in particular technology improvements identified from operations of NeonSat-1 after its launch in April 2024. These technologies will in turn be incorporated into the next 10 NeonSat under construction, as well as providing more site re-visiting capabilities along with NeonSat-1.

The NeonSat constellation is the first satellite system developed by the government using a mass-production approach for precise monitoring of the Korean Peninsula, lead by the Satellite Technology Research Center (SaTReC) at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea’s leading university dedicated to science and technology. Designed to capture near-real time natural disaster monitoring for the Korean peninsula, KAIST’s NEONSAT constellation is a collaboration across multiple Korean academic, industry, and research institutions, including SaTReC, which is leading the program’s system design and engineering. 

The NEONSAT program is funded by the Korean government’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT).

Bridging The Swarm Patch

Electron | Bridging The Swarm (NeonSat-1A)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

Rocket Launches Today