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)

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 2W

Firefly Alpha

Alpha FLTA006 is the second mission Firefly is launching for Lockheed Martin and the first of Firefly’s multi-launch agreement with Lockheed Martin that includes up to 25 missions over the next five y...

English

Alpha FLTA006 "Message In A Booster"

Official Webcast

CASC

Long March 3B/E | Unknown Payload

Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)

Long March 3B/E

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 11-9

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: April 27, 2025 (PDT)
Launch Time: 1:55 p.m. PDT, 20:55 - 22:55 CEST
Launch Window: Open until 5:55 p.m. PDT
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA
Targeted Orb...

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 11-9 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live

Unofficial Re-stream

Starlink Mission

Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-23

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Launch Date:  April 27, 2025 (EDT)
Launch Time: 10:24 p.m. EDT - April 28, 0204 UTC, 04:04 CEST
Launch Window:  Open until April 28, 02:04 a.m. EDT
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Sta...

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-23 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live

SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites with the Starlink 12-23 mission aboard its Falcon 9 rocket. These satellites are part of SpaceX’s growing low Earth orbit (LEO) internet constellat...

🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starlink 12-23 Mission

Unofficial Webcast

A batch of Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.

The constellation will eventually consists of 13000 satellites.

Long March 5B/YZ-2 | SatNet LEO Group TBD?

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Long March 5B/YZ-2

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 (KA-01)

Space Launch Complex 41

Atlas V 551

Unknown

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-10

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

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

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Flight VV26 | Biomass | Vega C I Arianespace

Gilmour Space Technologies

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

Eris-1 | Maiden Flight

Bowen Orbital Spaceport

Eris Pad

Eris

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-75

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-3

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

Peggy Whitson

Shubhanshu Shukla

Sławosz Uznański

Tibor Kapu

Landing Zone 1

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV08

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

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Lima

Unknown Pad

ISRO

RISAT-1B is the third in the series of radar imaging RISAT-1 satellites of ISRO using an active C-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar), providing all-weather as well as the day-and-night SAR observation capability in applications such as agriculture, forestry, soil moisture, geology, sea ice, coastal monitoring, object identification, and flood monitoring, in addition to military surveillance.

The RISAT-1 series is developed, manufactured and integrated by ISRO. The 3-axis stabilized spacecraft bus consists of a hexagonal prism shape build around a central cylinder. Most of the spacecraft subsystems and the payload are integrated in the prism structure and the central cylinder. The solar panels and some subsystems are mounted on the cube-shaped section of the spacecraft.

PSLV-XL | EOS-09 (RISAT-1B)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

PSLV XL

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

JAXA

GOSAT-GW (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Greenhouse gases and Water cycle), formerly known as GOSAT 3, is JAXA's next generation satellite to monitor the greenhosue gases like carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. It is the follow on to the GOSAT 2 (Ibuki 2) and GCOM-W (Shizuku) missions.

GOSAT-GW will have two missions: greenhouse gases observation for Japan's Ministry of the Environment and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), and water-cycle observation for JAXA. By developing the GOSAT-GW satellite, Mitsubishi Electric will contribute to measures for preventing disasters attributed to global warming and climate change, and to advance scientific and technological methods that enable more accurate prediction of climate change.

In December 2013, Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) was selected as the prime contractor for the spacecraft and the instruments.

H-IIA 202 | GOSAT-GW

Tanegashima Space Center

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1

H-IIA 202

Blue Origin

Jacklyn

Maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), a dual-spacecraft mission to study ion and sputtered escape from Mars. The spacecrafts' scientific goals are to understand the processes controlling the structure of Mars' hybrid magnetosphere and how it guides ion flows; understand how energy and momentum are transported from the solar wind through Mars' magnetosphere; and understand the processes controlling the flow of energy and matter into and out of the collisional atmosphere.

New Glenn | EscaPADE

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

First of up to 25 launches of Low Earth Orbit technology demonstration satellites to be built and operated by Lockheed Martin. 

TacSat is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance spacecraft with a mission to prove specialized sensing and communications capabilities on orbit. The satellite will participate in exercises that highlight cross-domain kill-web connectivity, enabling timely execution of tactical space missions.

TacSat will host a proven Lockheed Martin infrared sensor on board that brings previously developed technology to space for the first time. This sensor produces high quality imagery and it can interface with federated Battle Management Command & Control (BMC2) combat systems to provide joint forces with a comprehensive view of threats.

The satellite will also feature Lockheed Martin’s first 5G.MIL® payload on orbit. This provides cellular-like networking for military space assets, making satellite constellations more resilient. It also helps enable seamless connectivity with tools in the air, at sea and on land.

Launch operation will also again demonstrate responsive space pre-launch operation capabilities.

Firefly Alpha | TacSat

USSF-106 is a mission for the United States Space Force. The launch will deploy various payloads directly into geosynchronous orbit, including the NTS-3 (Navigation Technology Satellite 3), a demonstration navigation satellite testing a new digital signal generator that can be reprogrammed on-orbit to broadcast new signals, improve performance by avoiding and defeating interference, and adding signatures for detecting spoofing attacks.

US Space Force Patch

Vulcan VC4S | USSF-106

Vulcan VC4S

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

HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission.

The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).

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