Rocket Launches Today
There are 6 launches scheduled for today. Find out more and watch live below!
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
Raise and Shine (RAISE-4)
Mission Type
Technology
Destination
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
RAISE-4 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-4) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 15 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments. 6 of the demonstration payload, as well as as well as 4 cubesats originally planned to ride on the same launch vehicle, are re-flight of those planned for RAISE-3, which failed to reach orbit in October 2022. The launch vehicle was switched from Epsilon-S to Rocket Lab's Electron due to continuous testing problems with the Epsilon-S' 2nd stage motor. The original 8 hitch-hiking cubesats will be launched on another Electron rocket later.
Available Lives
Rocket Lab
JAXA | 宇宙航空研究開発機構
Rocket Lab - 'RAISE and Shine' Launch for JAXA
Last Update: Spacecraft separation.
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Booster
B1093
9th flight (37d since last use)
Landing
Drone Ship (Of Course I Still Love You)
Success
Mission
Starlink Group 15-12
Mission Type
Communications
Destination
Low Earth Orbit
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Available Replays
The Space Devs
Spaceflight Now
SpaceX
SpaceX Starlink Group 15-12
Last Update: Launch success.
Launch Countdown
Date & Time
15 Dec, 2:43am
UTC
Pad
Space Launch Complex 40
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Booster
B1092
9th flight (29d since last use)
Landing
Drone Ship (A Shortfall of Gravitas)
Mission
Starlink Group 6-82
Mission Type
Communications
Destination
Low Earth Orbit
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Available Lives
SPACE AFFAIRS
NASASpaceflight
SpaceX
GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-82 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Last Update: Updated launch weather, 30% GO.
Launch Countdown
Date & Time
15 Dec, 4:00am
UTC
Location
Pad
Launch Area 95A
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
Unknown Payload
Mission Type
Unknown
Destination
Unknown
Details TBD.
Last Update: Rescheduled for NET December 15.
Launch Countdown
Date & Time
15 Dec, 4:05am
UTC
Location
Pad
Launch Area 95A
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
Demo Flight
Mission Type
Test Flight
Destination
Unknown
First test launch of Galactic Energy’s Ceres-2 rocket.
Last Update: Updated possible launch date and time per new NOTAMs (in place of previous guess of Hyperbola-1 for this launch); Identification of the launch with this mission and payload are uncertain.
Launch Countdown
Date & Time
15 Dec, 8:49am
UTC
Pad
Space Launch Complex 41
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
Amazon Leo (LA-04)
Mission Type
Communications
Destination
Low Earth Orbit
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.
Available Lives
United Launch Alliance
NASASpaceflight
Rocket Launch: Atlas V Leo-4
Last Update: Updated launch weather, 20% GO.
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