ISRO

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

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)

Watch the LVM3-M6 / BlueBird Block-2 mission live, conducted by ISRO-NSIL, deploying the BlueBird Block-2 communication satellite of AST SpaceMobile into Low Earth Orbit.
🚀 Launch: 24 December | 08:54 IST
📡 Livestream: 24 December | 08:24 IST onwards

This mission marks the 6th operational flight of the LVM3 launch vehicle. LVM3-M6 will place the BlueBird Block-2 satellite into Low Earth Orbit, and it is the largest commercial communications satellite to be deployed in Low Earth Orbit as well as the heaviest payload to be launched by LVM3 from Indian soil.

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LVM3-M6 / BlueBird Block-2 Mission | Live Launch | ISRO-NSIL

Official Webcast

AST SpaceMobile is scheduled to launch the first of its next-generation satellites to low Earth orbit on December 23, 2025 at 10:24 p.m. EST. The mission, called BlueBird 6, will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center aboard the LVM3 rocket. Watch AST SpaceMobile's webcast featuring new videos, a word from President Scott Wisniewski, a tour of our Midland facility, and interviews with our strategic partners American Tower and Rakuten. The broadcast will begin approximately 30 minutes before launch time. The exact timing of launch is subject to change based on a number of factors, including readiness of the launch vehicle, weather conditions, and other factors – so stay tuned to AST SpaceMobile's social media channels for the latest updates.

Webcast: AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 6 Mission Live Launch

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 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

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

COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Mission

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.

20 small satellites will also be launched as ride-share payloads.

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

Vostochny Cosmodrome

Cosmodrome Site 1S

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

Long March 7A | Unknown Payload

Long March 7A

Space Pioneer

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

Tianlong-3 | Demo Flight

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Tianlong-3 Launch Pad

Tianlong-3

Galactic Energy

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

Ceres-2 Y1

Ceres-2 | Demo Flight

Launch Area 95A

Ceres-2

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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

First uncrewed orbital test flight of the Gaganyaan capsule.

LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1

Gaganyaan

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.

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