SpaceX

Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 22 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 11-2

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: December 13, 2024
Launch Time: 11:28 a.m. PT, 1928 UTC, 20:28 CET
Launch Window: Open til 3:04 p.m. PT
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA
Targeted Orbit: L...

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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 11-2 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base - Space Affairs Live

Unofficial Re-stream

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 22 second-generation Starlink internet satellites. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for Friday, December 13...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 22 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, California

Unofficial Webcast

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

Rocket Lab

Sub-orbital launch of the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program for a confidential customer.

HASTE | Stonehenge

Wallops Island

Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

Electron

A Shortfall of Gravitas

GPS-IIIA (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known as "tranche") of GPS III satellites.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV10

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Launch Date: December 13, 2024 
Launch Time: 8:04 p.m. ET - December 14, 0104 UTC - 02:04 CET
Launch Window:  Instantaneous launch  
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, ...

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - GPS 3 10 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live

GPS-3 (Global Positioning System) or Navstar-3 (Navigation System using Timing And Ranging) are the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites.

The U.S. Air Force announced i...

🚀SpaceX Launches RRT-1 (GPS-III SV10)

RRT-1 Mission

Space One

Second flight of the KAIROS launch vehicle. 

5 satellites for testing various technologies will be on board:

* TATARA-1
* PARUS-T1A
* SC-Sat1
* ISHIKI

KAIROS | Flight 2

Space Port Kii, Japan

Space One Launch Pad

Kii-based Advanced & Instant ROcket System

カイロスロケット２号機の打上げの様子を生配信します。

Japanese

カイロスロケット２号機打上げライブ配信

CASC

Possibly CZ-2D launch with PIESAT-2 05-08; details TBD.

Long March 2D | Unknown Payload

Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 9

Long March 2D

Unknown

Seventh and eighth of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 7 & 8

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Launch Date: December 15, 2024
Launch Time: 3:58 p.m. ET, 2058 UTC, 21:58 CET
Launch Window:  5:18 p.m. ET
Launch Site: LC-39A Kennedy Space Center
Targeted Orbit: Medium Earth orbit (MEO)
Launch Incl...

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - O3b mPOWER 7 & 8 - LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live

The O3b mPOWER satellites are improved second-generation satellites for the SES owned O3b Networks.

Window Opens: December 15th at 3:58PM EST (20:58 UTC)
Window Closes: December 15th at 5:56PM EST (2...

🚀SpaceX Launches O3b mPOWER 7 & 8

Sixth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-149

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 01

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Long March 5B/YZ-2

Synthetic aperture radar satellites for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Owl the way up

Electron | Owl The Way Up (StriX Launch 6)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

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

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

ISRO

SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) is an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) technology mission to demonstrate autonomous docking between 2 spacecraft in orbit.

The mission will involve two spacecraft (Chaser and Target) rendezvous and docking together, plus testing attitude control of the combined spacecraft under docked conditions. The Chaser and Target spacecraft will then be separated for operating other payload. The mission is critical to develop rendezvous and docking abilities for ISRO’s future human spaceflight and lunar sample return missions.

PSLV | SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

PSLV

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Payloads include the South Korean government's 425 Project Flight 3.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 2 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

Note: Name of payload is provisional.

Third 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 3

Unknown Pad

OSAM-2 is a mission to demonstrate the ability of small spacecraft to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components in low-Earth orbit. Once itâ€™s positioned in low-Earth orbit, the spacecraft will 3D-print two beams that extend 32 feet (10 meters) out from each side of the spacecraft. As manufacturing progresses, each beam will unfurl two solar arrays that generate as much as five times more power than traditional solar panels on spacecraft of similar size.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | OSAM-2

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Lima

Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) with funding backed by the Shanghai local government.

Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.

First launch from the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site's LC-1.

Long March 8 | G60 Group TBD

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8

Arianespace

Vega-C | Ital-GovSatCom

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

The second inflight abort test of the Gaganyaan program.

Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster | TV-D2

Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster

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

Kinéis Patch

Electron | Kinéis 16-20

HASTE | Leidos-3

ROSCOSMOS

Resurs-P is a series of Russian commercial Earth observation satellites capable of acquiring high-resolution imagery (resolution up to 1.0 m).

Soyuz 2.1b | Resurs-P No.5

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1b

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, consisting of communications array, power systems, and a flight computer affixed to a secondary payload adapter ring, remaining attached to the 2nd stage. This launch will serve as New Glenn's first National Security Space Launch certification flight.

New Glenn | Maiden Flight

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

ABL Space Systems

This is the second launch of RS1 launch vehicle developed and built by ABL Space Systems. Payload onboard is TBD.

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