SpaceX

Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-39

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: July 20, 2026 PDT
Launch Time:  7:00 a.m. PDT 14:00 UTC, 16:00 CEST
Launch Window: Open until 11:00 a.m.  PDT
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Targeted Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Inclination: South
Launch Status: Scheduled and announced

Mission: Starlink Group 17-39
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1092 - Turnaround time 49 days)
Flight for the Booster: 23
Previous Flights of the Booster: 22 - USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, NROL-145, and 19 Starlink missions
Droneship: Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)

Price: $74 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

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Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

Gulf of Mexico

13th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Second flight of Starship V3.

For the first time, Starship will carry 20 V3 Starlink satellites to space, which will extend solar arrays and antennas and will attempt to connect with ground stations in South Africa and the larger Starlink constellation via high-capacity lasers. 

6 of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators to continue testing methods of analyzing Starship’s heat shield readiness for return to launch site on future missions. Several tiles on Starship have been painted white to simulate missing tiles and serve as imaging targets in the test.

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Starship | Flight 13

Starbase

Orbital Launch Pad 2

Starship V3

Launch Date: July 20, 2026
Launch Time: 3:45 p.m. PDT, 5:45 p.m. CDT, 6:45 p.m. EDT, 2245 UTC (July 21, 00:45 CEST)
Launch Window: 90 minutes, open until 8:15 p.m. CDT
Status: Scheduled and announced. Two Raptor engines have been replaced after the scrub on July 16. 
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Starship-Super Heavy (Prototype) - (Vehicles: Starship 20  & Booster 20)
Mission: Starship Test Flight 13 - Suborbital
Flight: 1st flight for Super Heavy Booster 20 - 1st flight for Starship 40
Launch Location: Pad 2, Starbase, Texas, USA

The thirteenth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Thursday, July 16. The 90-minute launch window will open at 5:45 p.m. CDT, 2245 UTC (July 17, 00:45 CEST)
As with all developmental testing, the schedule is dynamic and like...

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Starship launches Flight 13, the second launch of the Block 3 vehicle from Pad 2 at Starbase at the second attempt following a T-0 abort on July 16.

Launch Window: July 20th at 5:45PM to 7:15PM CDT (22:45-00:15 UTC)
Current T0: July 20th at 5:45PM CDT (22:45 UTC)

Mission: Starship's 13th integrated flight test. Correcting issues from version 3's debut flight.
Launch location: Pad 2, Starbase, Earth. 
Target orbit: Trans-atmospheric
Booster: B20-1
Ship: S40-1
Booster recovery: Expended - will attempt a water splashdown, no recovery.
Ship recovery: Expended - will attempt a water splashdown, no recovery.
Rocket trajectory: Southeast passing between Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula.
Payload onboard: 20 Starlink v3 satellites, 6 of them fitted with a suite of cameras for heatshield inspec...

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Atlantic Ocean

The Northrop Grumman/SpaceLogistics MRV-1 is a mission extension payload including a mission robotic vehicle (MRV) and multiple mission extension pods (MEPs). The MRV is designed to attach up to 30 MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) to various satellites in GEO over the course of its life, and the MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) are 400 kg spacecraft designed to be captured by the MRV and then attached to a customer's satellite. A single MEP can extend a 2000 kg satellite's service life by up to 6 years. 

For this mission, 2 of the MEP's will service satellites for Intelsat, while the third will service a satellite for Optus.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | MRV-1

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Launch Date:  July 21, 2026
Launch Time: 5:17 p.m. EDT, 2115 UTC, 23:15 CEST
Launch Window:  Open until 9:04 p.m. EDT
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Targeted Orbit: GTO (Geostationary Transfer Orbit) 
Launch Inclination: East
Launch Status: East 

Mission: Starlink MRV-MEP (Mission Robotic Vehicle - Mission Extension Pod)
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Contractor: Northrop Grumman
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1069 - Turnaround 81days)
Flight for the Booster: 32 - Final Flight
Previous Flights of the Booster: 31 - CRS-24, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F, OneWeb 1, SES-18 and SES-19, and 27
No recovery of the first stage

Price: $74 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
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MRV-MEP Mission

Orienspace Technology

Gravity-1 | Unknown Payload

Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

Yellow Sea (launch location 5)

Gravity-1

CASC

Long March 3B/E | Unknown Payload

Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)

Long March 3B/E

CAS Space

Kinetica 1 | Unknown Payload

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 130

Kinetica 1

Long March 8A | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8A

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-51

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-52

ROSCOSMOS

Note: Payload identities uncertain.

Batch of 16 Rassvet-3 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Russian Byuro-1440 (Bureau 1440) constellation for broadband high-speed internet access in Russia.

Soyuz 2.1b | 16 x Rassvet-3

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Unknown Pad

Soyuz 2.1b

Rocket Lab

Synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS.

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Electron | The Grain Goddess Provides (iQPS Launch 7)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

Rocket Lab - 'The Grain Goddess Provides' Launch

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Electron | StriX Launch 11

LOXSAT 1 is a demonstration satellite of a complete cryogenic oxygen fluid management system in orbit, developed by Eta Space and sponsored by NASA's Tipping Point program.

The system will be integrated on a Rocket Lab Photon-LEO satellite bus and collect critical cryogenic fluid management data in orbit for 9 months, demonstrating capabilities of in-space cryogenic storage and transferal. Eta Space plans to use technology developed for this mission to develop a truly commercial depot intended to serve multiple customers in the future.

Electron | LOXSAT 1

Long March 7A | Unknown Payload

Long March 7A

Russian Space Forces

Glonass-K are the third generation of satellite design for GLONASS satellite navigation system. GLONASS is a Russian space-based navigation system comparable to the similar GPS and Galileo systems. This generation improves on accuracy, power consumption and design life. Each satellite is unpressurized and weighs 935 kg,  and has an operational lifetime of 10 years.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 19

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat

Agency for Defense Development

Note: Launch vehicle name is provisional.

First orbital full version launch of the South Korean military small satellite launch vehicle, after 2 sub-orbital tests of individual stages on 30 March and 30 December 2022, and 1 orbital test flight without the 2nd stage on 4 December 2023. Details TBD.

Mir | Demo Flight

Jeju Island

ADD Offshore launch platform

South Korean ADD Solid-Fuel SLV

Isar Aerospace

Second test flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle. This launch will carry 5 cubesats and 1 non-separable experiment as part of European Space Agency (ESA)'s “Boost!” program:

* CyBEEsat (TU Berlin)
* TriSat-S (University of Maribor)
* Platform 6 (EnduroSat)
* FramSat-1 (NTNU)
* SpaceTeamSat1 (TU Wien Space Team)
* Let It Go (Dcubed, non-separable experiment)

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Spectrum | Onward and Upward

Andøya Spaceport

Orbital Launch Pad

Spectrum

Mission Name: 'Onward and Upward'

Launch Date: Updates via https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview

Launch site: Andøya Space

The second flight of our ‘Spectrum’ launch vehicle marks a significant milestone serving as both the vehicle’s qualification mission and its first flight carrying payload.

"Onward and Upward" symbolizes our relentless drive for progress and continuous improvement, reflecting our determination to build upon the successes and lessons learned from our inaugural test flight.

The livestream is produced in collaboration with the @NASASpaceflight team.

More information on the Mission ‘Onward and Upward’ here: https://isaraerospace.com/mission-2

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"Onward and Upward" Mission of Isar Aerospace

Mission Name: 'Onward and Upward'

Launch Date: Updates via https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview

Launch site: Andøya Space

The second flight of Isar's ‘Spectrum’ launch vehicle marks a significant milestone serving as both the vehicle’s qualification mission and its first flight carrying payload.

"Onward and Upward" symbolizes Isar's relentless drive for progress and continuous improvement, reflecting their determination to build upon the successes and lessons learned from our inaugural test flight.

NSF/NASASpaceflight LLC is providing live stream production services for Isar Aerospace's second flight of Spectrum.

More information on the Mission ‘Onward and Upward’ here: https://isaraerospace.com/mission-2

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Isar Aerospace Launches "Onward and Upward" Mission

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

QZSS (Quasi Zenith Satellite System) is a Japanese satellite navigation system operating from inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits to achieve optimal high-elevation visibility in urban canyons and mountainous areas. The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation.

The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation in inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits.

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H3-22 | Michibiki 7 (QZS-7)

Tanegashima Space Center

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2

H3-22

Arianespace

Third of EUMETSAT's third generation of weather satellite.

Ariane 62 | MTG-I2

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 4

Ariane 62

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA infrared space telescope with a 2.4 m (7.9 ft) wide field of view primary mirror and two scientific instruments. The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) is a 300.8-megapixel multi-band visible and near-infrared camera, providing a sharpness of images comparable to that achieved by the Hubble Space Telescope over a 0.28 square degree field of view, 100 times larger than imaging cameras on the Hubble. The Coronagraphic Instrument (CGI) is a high-contrast, small field of view camera and spectrometer covering visible and near-infrared wavelengths using novel starlight-suppression technology. Roman objectives include a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing, and probing the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structure, with the goal of measuring the effects of dark energy, the consistency of general relativity, and the curvature of spacetime.

Falcon Heavy | Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Falcon Heavy

A Shortfall of Gravitas

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 3 satellites.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | BlueBird Block 2 #6-8

LandSpace

Zhuque-3 Landing Site

Second test launch of LandSpace’s ZQ-3 rocket. Payload identities are TBD.

Zhuque-3 | Flight 2

Launch Area 96B

Zhuque-3

The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax services via its Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees.

In early 2022, Globalstar contracted with MDA for the construction of 17 new 2nd generation refresh satellites to replenish the existing constellation. Rocket Lab is sub-contracted to build the satellites' buses and the launch dispensers.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 (x 9)

Globalstar 2-R Launch 1 Mission

Rocket Factory Augsburg

First flight of the RFA One launch vehicle. Will carry 7 satellites for various companies and organizations coordinated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

* AllBertEinStein
* ARTICA
* Curium Two
* ERMINAZ
* PCIOD
* Separation Ring Mission
* SpaceDREAM

RFA One | Maiden Flight

SaxaVord Spaceport

Launch Pad Fredo

RFA One

Chang'e 7/CE-7 is scheduled to launch in 2026, including an orbiter, a lander, a mini-hopping probe, and a rover. The mission will land in the South Pole regions of the Moon to study lunar surface environment around the South Pole, especially in looking for water ice in lunar soil.

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Long March 5 | Chang'e 7

Long March 5

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