SpaceX

A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 23 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 6-61

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: October 22, 2024 (EDT)
Launch Time: 6:52 p.m. EDT, 22:52 UTC - October 23, 00:52 CEST
Launch Window:  up til 10:40 p.m. EDT
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Flori...

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Unofficial Webcast

CASC

Long March 2C | Unknown Payload

Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1)

Long March 2C

Blue Origin

Corn Ranch, West Texas

Twenty-seventh flight of New Shepard,flying unmanned as a test for the newest booster.

New Shepard | NS-27

Corn Ranch

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

Crew Capsule 2.0

New Shepard

Blue Origin’s next New Shepard flight, NS-27, is an uncrewed verification flight debuting our second human-rated vehicle. The new vehicle will expand flight capacity to better meet growing customer de...

New Shepard Mission NS-27 Webcast

Official Webcast

Of Course I Still Love You

Suspected fourth 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.

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-167

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Unknown

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-8

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

DSN 3, also known as Kirameki 3, is a geostationary communications satellite to be used for military communications by the Japanese military.

H3-22 | DSN 3 (Kirameki 3)

Tanegashima Space Center

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2

H3-22

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-2

Galactic Energy

Ceres-1 | Unknown Payload

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 95A

Ceres-1

Eighth crewed flight to the Chinese space station.

Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 19

Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921)

Long March 2F/G

Firefly Aerospace

First of up to 25 launches of Low Earth Orbit technology demonstration satellites to be built and operated by Lockheed Martin. Launch operation will also again demonstrate responsive space pre-launch operation capabilities.

Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Lockheed Martin Demo 1)

Space Launch Complex 2W

Firefly Alpha

Rocket Lab

Launch of a yet to identified satellite to SSO for an undisclosed customer. The customer is suspected to be Low Earth Orbit communication satellite constellation operator E-Space.
Launch contract was signed less than 2 months before launch.

Electron | Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

Landing Zone 1

31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-31

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Cargo Dragon 2

ROSCOSMOS

Ionosfera is a constellation of four ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites developed by for Roscosmos for the project Ionozond.

The satellites will operate on circular sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), at altitude of about 800 km and located in two orbital planes of two satellites each. 

The following science instruments are carried on the satellites:

* SPER/1 Plasma and energy radiation spectrometer
* SG/1 Gamma-ray spectrometer
* GALS/1 Galactic cosmic ray spectrometer / 1
* LAERTES On-board Ionosonde
* NBK/2 Low-frequency wave complex
* ESEP Ionospheric plasma energy spectrometer
* Ozonometer-TM Ozonometer
* MayaK On-board radio transmitters
* PES GPS-GLONASS device

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 1 & 2

Vostochny Cosmodrome

Cosmodrome Site 1S

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-29 (90P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1a

ISRO

Proba-3 (Project for On-Board Autonomy 3) is the first close formation flying mission for the European Space Agency (ESA). It consists of two independent, three-axis stabilised spacecraft flying 150 meters from one another with the ability to accurately control the attitude and separation of the two craft. Such formation flying will be maintained for 6 hours, creating ″artificial solar eclipse″ for the satellite below. 

The spacecraft pair will fly a highly elliptical orbit divided between periods of accurate formation flying around apogee, when payload operations will be possible, and periods of free flight.

PSLV-XL | Proba-3

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

PSLV XL

Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

WorldView Legion is a constellation of Earth observation satellites built and operated by Maxar. Constellation is planned to consist of 6 satellites in both polar and mid-inclination orbits, providing 30 cm-class resolution.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 5 & 6

Unknown Pad

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

SXM-9 is the 10th high-powered, digital, audio radio satellite built by Maxar (SSL) for SiriusXM. The SXM-9 satellite will be based on Maxar’s proven 1300-class platform and built at the company’s manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. It is expected that SXM-9 will launch in 2024.  SXM-9 has a large, mesh, unfurlable reflector almost 10 meters in diameter that allows SiriusXM programming to reach its radios, including those in moving vehicles.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-9

Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 1

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

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

Kinéis Patch

Electron | Kinéis 11-15

Jacklyn

Maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, in addition to serving as New Glenn's first National Security Space Launch certification flight.

New Glenn | Maiden Flight

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

The Kondor-FKA is a small civilian radar Earth observation satellite designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a civilian counterpart to the Kondor-E satellite.

The Kondor satellite features a S-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which can conduct both continous swath surweys or detailed spot surveys. The swath width is 10 km. Ground resolution is 1 to 2 m in spotlight mode, 1 to 3 m in stripmap mode and 5 to 30 m in ScanSAR mode.

Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M | Kondor-FKA No.2

Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M

The Koreasat 6A spacecraft, built by Thales Alenia Space, will have 20 transponders for fixed satellite services and six for TV broadcasting to replace the Koreasat 6 launched in 2010.

Koreasat 6A will be based on the manufacturer’s Spacebus 4000B2 platform and is expected to weigh about 3.5 metric tons at launch. It will be designed to operate for at least 15 years.

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