SpaceX

Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 25 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 17-21

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

English

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

China Rocket Co.

Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload

Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

South China Sea (launch location 3)

Smart Dragon 3

Landing Zone 40

This is the 24th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 23rd flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-24 (S.S. Steven R. Nagel)

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Cygnus Enhanced

Watch the launch of a cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, delivering supplies, new research, and a module to advance quantum science. 

Northrop Grumman's uncrewed Cygnus XL is scheduled to lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:41 a.m. EDT (1141 UTC), Saturday, April 11, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Following launch, astronauts aboard the space station will use the Canadarm2 robotic arm to capture the Cygnus XL on Monday, April 13, before ground controllers install it to the Unity module’s Earth-facing port for cargo unloading.

About the mission: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-northrop-grummans-crs-24-resupply-launch/
Updates: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialresupply/

Credit: NASA

NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 Launch

NG-24 Mission

Coverage of the Launch of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-24 Cargo Craft to the International Space Station (Launch scheduled at 7:41 a.m. EDT).

CAS Space

Kinetica 1 | Unknown Payload

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 130

Kinetica 1

Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-24

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-27

Blue Origin

Jacklyn

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 1 satellite, BlueBird 7/BlueBird Block 2 FM2.

New Glenn | BlueBird Block 2 #2

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

CASC

Long March 2D | Unknown Payload

Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603)

Long March 2D

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-22

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-14

Rocket Lab

JAXA-manifested rideshare of eight separate spacecraft that includes educational small sats, an ocean monitoring satellite, a demonstration satellite for ultra-small multispectral cameras, and a deployable antenna that can be packed tightly using origami folding techniques and unfurled to 25 times its size.

The satellites were originally planned to launch with RAISE-4 on a Japanese Epsilon-S rocket, but the Epsilon-S was heavily delayed due to test firing failures.

The 8 satellites are:

* MAGNARO-II
* KOSEN-2R
* WASEDA-SAT-ZERO-II
* FSI-SAT2
* OrigamiSat-2
* Mono-Nikko
* ARICA-2
* PRELUDE

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Electron | Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Unknown Pad

Electron

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-34 (95P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1a

Amazon Leo, formerly known as 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.

29 satellites are carried on this launch.

Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-06)

Space Launch Complex 41

Atlas V 551

Arianespace

Amazon Leo, formerly known as 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.

32 satellites are carried on this launch.

Ariane 64 | Amazon Leo (LE-02)

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 4

Ariane 64

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

"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 the "Onward and Upward" Mission

Unofficial Webcast

Skyroot Aerospace

First launch of Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-I launch vehicle, with several cubesats on board. Payload identities TBD.

Vikram-I | Demo Flight

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

Vikram-I

Unknown

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV10

LandSpace

Zhuque-2E | Unknown Payload

Launch Area 96

Zhuque-2E

Long March 7A | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Long March 7A

RKK Energiya

Demonstration Flight for Russia's new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle, with a mass simulator on board. Details TBD.

Soyuz-5 | Demo Flight

45/1

Soyuz-5

Landing Zone 2

Atlantic Ocean

The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.

Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific)

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Falcon Heavy

Avio S.p.A

Joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to investigate the interaction between Earth’s protective shield – the magnetosphere – and the supersonic solar wind.

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Vega-C | Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

Join us live on 9 April, as we broadcast the launch of the European-Chinese Smile mission.
 
Smile will head to space on a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
 
This stream will include live launch footage from the launchpad and control room, as well as real-time interviews with people involved in the mission and its launch.
 
For the first time, Smile is going to reveal what really happens when charged particles from the Sun crash into Earth's magnetic shield.
 
It carries an X-ray camera to make the first X-ray observations of how exactly this shield responds to the solar wind, and an ultraviolet camera to watch the resulting northern lights for 45 hours at a time.
 
Find out more at esa.int/smile

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ESA's Smile mission launch

Amazon Leo, formerly known as 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.

35-40 satellites will be carried on each Ariane 6 launch.

Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-03)

Ariane 64 Block 2

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

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Electron | The Grain Goddess Provides (iQPS Launch 7)

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Electron | StriX Launch 9

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