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 17-17

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: March 26, 2026 PDT
Launch Time: 4:03 p.m. PDT, 2303 UTC (March 27, 00:03 CET)
Launch Window: Open 8:03 p.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 17-17
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1100 - Turnaround time 40 days)
Flight for the Booster: 4
Previous Flights of the Booster: 3 - NROL-105 and two Starlink missions
Droneship: Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)

Price: $69,75 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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GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-17 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live

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Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket from California with 25 satellites for SpaceX's space-based internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for Thursday, March 26, during a launch window that opens at 4:03 p.m. PDT (7:03 p.m. EDT / 2303 UTC).

The first-stage booster, tail number B1081, launching for a 23rd time, will land on the drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You' nearly 8.5 minutes into the flight.

The Starlink 17-17 mission will take a southerly trajectory upon departure from Vandenberg. 

Live commentary from Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith will be provided starting about 30 minutes prior to launch.

Quilty Space Starlink Financial Overview 2025 2H & 2026 Forecast: https://www.quiltyspa...

Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch 25 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg, California

Unofficial Webcast

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

CASC

Long March 2C/YZ-1S | Unknown Payload

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603)

Long March 2C/YZ-1S

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 10-44

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Rocket Lab

The European Space Agency (ESA)'s LEO-PNT (Low Earth Orbit Positioning, Navigation and Timing) demonstrator mission will feature a 10-satellite constellation demonstration mission that will assess how a low Earth orbit fleet of satellites can work in combination with the Galileo and EGNOS constellations in higher orbits that provide Europe’s own global navigation system.

This launch will lift 2 “Pathfinder A” satellites built by Thales Alenia Space and GMV to a 510 km altitude Low Earth Orbit.

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Electron | Daughter Of The Stars (LEO-PNT Pathfinder A)

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Electron

Rocket Lab - 'Daughter Of The Stars' Launch

On 25 March, the first two satellites of the Celeste LEO-PNT in-orbit demonstration mission will lift off aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the company’s Māhia Launch Complex in New Zealand.
 
Celeste will play a pioneering role in elevating the future of Europe’s satellite navigation capabilities. As Europe’s first initiative for satellite navigation in low Earth orbit (LEO), the mission will be testing next-generation technologies and add new frequency bands for satellite navigation.
 
Celeste will demonstrate how a complementary layer flying closer to Earth can enhance Europe’s current Galileo system in medium Earth orbit (MEO), boosting the overall resilience, enhancing its performance and opening opportunities for new service capabilities directly from LEO.
 
For more info...

ESA’s Celeste mission launch 1

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

Scrub: "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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[Scrub] Isar Aerospace Launches the "Onward and Upward" Mission

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-05)

Space Launch Complex 41

Atlas V 551

ULA's Atlas V rocket will deliver another batch of satellites into low Earth orbit for Amazon Leo, the broadband constellation. Amazon Leo's mission is to provide fast, reliable internet to customers around the world, including those in unserved and underserved communities, using a network of more than 3,000 LEO satellites. The window opens at 3:53 a.m. EDT. 

GO Atlas! GO Centaur! GO Leo 5!

Rocket Launch: Amazon Leo 5

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 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Transporter-16 Mission

Long March 2C | Unknown Payload

Long March 2C

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

LandSpace

Zhuque-2E | Unknown Payload

Launch Area 96

Zhuque-2E

Avio S.p.A

Vega-C | PLATiNO 1

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

Space Pioneer

First test launch of Space Pioneer’s Tianlong-3 rocket.

Tianlong-3 | Demo Flight

Tianlong-3 Launch Pad

Tianlong-3

CAS Space

First test launch and mission of CAS Space’s Kinetica-2 rocket and Qingzhou cargo resupply spacecraft for future cargo transport to the Chinese Tiangong Space Station under a commercial contract from the CMSEO.

Kinetica 2 | Qingzhou Spacecraft Demo Flight

Launch Area 140

Kinetica 2

First test launch of CASC’s Long March 12B rocket.

Long March 12B | Demo Flight

Long March 12A Pad

Long March 12B

Gregory R. Wiseman

Victor J. Glover

Jeremy Hansen

Christina Koch

NASA

Artemis II is the first crewed mission as part of the Artemis program. Artemis II will send a crew of 4 - 3 Americans and 1 Canadian around the moon and return them back to Earth.

The mission will test the core systems of NASA's Orion spacecraft including the critical life support system, among other systems which could not be tested during Artemis I due to the lack of crew onboard.

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SLS Block 1 | Artemis II

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39B

Orion

SLS Block 1

Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program and will launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will send NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on an approximately 10-day journey around the Moon. Among objectives, the agency will test the Orion spacecraft’s life support systems for the first time with people and lay the groundwork for future crewed Artemis missions.

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon (Official Broadcast)

RKK Energiya

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

Soyuz-5 | Demo Flight

Baikonur Cosmodrome

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Soyuz-5

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-58

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-35

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-21

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

STP-S29A is a mission under the U.S. Department of Defense's Space Test Program (STP) that will deliver technology demonstrations to orbit and contribute to future space system development, with this launch delivering up to 200 kg of STP cubesats to Low Earth Orbit.

The main payload will be STPSat-7, an ESPA class satellite based on the Aegis Aerospace M-1 satellite bus used on the STPSat-4 mission for hosting research and technology demonstration payloads for the Department of Defense (DoD). One of the payload is U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Lightsheet Anomaly Resolution and Debris Observation (LARADO) instrument, used to detect and characterize lethal non-trackable orbital debris with lasers in orbit.

Minotaur IV | STP-S29A

Space Launch Complex 8

Minotaur IV

Long March 8 | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8

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.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-24

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.

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

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)

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Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-06)

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