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.

Space X Starlink Mission Patch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-35

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: April 6,  2026 (PDT)
Launch Time: 4:03 p.m. PDT, 2303 UTC (April 7, 01:03 CEST)
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: The launch was scrubbed on April 5 due to weather. Now new schedule for April 6 and announced. 

Mission: Starlink Group 17-35
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1103)
Flight for the Booster: Maiden Flight
Previous Flights of the Booster: 0
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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Unofficial Re-stream

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

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

CASC

Long March 8 | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8

Long March 6A | Unknown Payload

Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 9A

Long March 6A

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.

Cygnus CRS NG-24 Patch

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

NG-24 Mission

Coverage of the Launch of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-24 Cargo Craft to the International Space Station (Launch scheduled at 8:49 a.m. EDT).

NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 Launch

China Rocket Co.

Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload

Sea Launch

Bo Run Jiu Zhou mobile launch platform

Smart Dragon 3

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-21

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

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-27

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

Kakushin Rising Patch

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

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

Unofficial Webcast

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV10

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

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.

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

Atlantic Ocean

Landing Zone 2

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

LandSpace

Zhuque-2E | Unknown Payload

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 96

Zhuque-2E

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

Long March 7A | Unknown Payload

Long March 7A

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 satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Electron | StriX Launch 9

12th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Maiden Flight of Starship V3

Rocket Launches Today