SpaceX

A Shortfall of Gravitas

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

This launch also carries the second demonstration mission for SpaceX’s Project Starfall, which aims to mass-produce reentry capsules designed to autonomously transport valuable customer experiments and other payloads safely back from space to Earth, including for in-orbit manufacturing. 

Starfall is a cylindrical shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters, weighing approximately 2100 kilograms, and capable of carrying 1000 kilograms of payload. It is designed to be carried on Starship flights.

Bandwagon 5

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Falcon 9 Block 5

English

Bandwagon-5 Mission

Official Webcast

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

MMX is a Japanese scientific mission to land on Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, to collect samples before bringing them back to Earth.

The mission includes a small French/German rover to explore the surface of Phobos.

MMX Mission Patch

H3-24 | Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)

Tanegashima Space Center

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2

H3-24

JAXA will livestream the launch of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft aboard H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.10 (H3 F10).

Broadcast Start Time: October 20, 2026, around 03:45 JST 
Launch Time: October 20, 2026, at 04:41:03 JST 
Launch Site: Tanegashima Space Center, Yoshinobu Launch Complex 
All times are in Japan Standard Time (24-hour format). 

▼Japanese Live Stream（日本語の配信はこちら） 
Launch live streaming of Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)/H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.10(English)
https://www.youtube.com/live/sZGyK9jfoy4

▼Related Links 
https://www.youtube.com/user/jaxachannel
https://www.youtube.com/@JAXA-LiveEvent
https://www.jaxa.jp/
https://global.jaxa.jp/

Launch live streaming of Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)/H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.10(English)

火星衛星探査機(MMX)/H3ロケット10号機の打上げライブ中継です。 

番組放送開始予定：2026年10月20日 3時45分頃 
打上げ日時：2026年10月20日 4時41分03秒
打上げ場所：種子島宇宙センター　大型ロケット発射場 
※日本標準時、24時間表記  

▼英語同時通訳付き配信はこちら（English Live Stream） 
Launch live streaming of Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)/H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.10(English)
https://www.youtube.com/live/Fn6gzuGa-6c

▼JAXA公式チャンネルはこちら
https://www.youtube.com/user/jaxachannel
https://www.youtube.com/@JAXA-LiveEvent

▼JAXA（国立研究開発法人宇宙航空研究開発機構/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency）
https://www.jaxa.jp/
https://global.jaxa.jp/

Japanese

火星衛星探査機(MMX)/H3ロケット10号機打上げライブ中継

Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 27 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 15-15

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Starlink Mission

Galactic Energy

Ceres-1S | Unknown Payload

Sea Launch

Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship

Ceres-1S

Rocket Lab

HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission.

The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).

We're Not Hawking Around Patch

Electron | We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Unknown Pad

Electron

CASC

Long March 8A | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8A

Long March 6A | Unknown Payload

Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 9A

Long March 6A

Long March 4B | Unknown Payload

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603)

Long March 4B

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-16

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.

45 satellites will be carried on each Vulcan launch.

Vulcan VC6L | Amazon Leo (LV-01)

Space Launch Complex 41

Vulcan VC6L

Long March 12A Landing Site

Second test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket. Payload identities are TBD.

Long March 12A | Flight 2

Long March 12A Pad

Long March 12A

ISRO

This is a replacement satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. The constellation will provide India with an alternative to GPS and will be used for military and civilian use. Located at a geosynchronous orbit, the system will be operated by the Indian government.

GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1L (NVS-03)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

GSLV Mk. II

Ride-share launch of multiple satellites, including the in-orbit refueling demonstration satellite AayulSAT-1A from OrbitAID Aerospace. Other payload's identities TBD.

SSLV | AayulSAT-1A & others

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

SSLV

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

The Sea God Surveys Patch

Electron | The Sea God Surveys (iQPS Launch 9)

The Mountain God Rises Patch

Electron | The Mountain God Rises (iQPS Launch 10)

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.

35-40 satellites will be carried on each Ariane 6 launch.

VA271 Patch

Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-04)

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 4

Ariane 64 Block 2

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-36 (97P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1b

First uncrewed orbital test flight of the Gaganyaan capsule.

LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1

Gaganyaan

Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)

This is the 25th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 24th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-25

TDS-01 (Technology Demonstration Satellite-01) is an Indian geostationary orbit technology demonstration satellite carrying payloads for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar and the CSIR-CEERI, Pilani. 

Payloads to be tested included an internally developed 300 mN electric powered thrusters, atomic clocks, travelling wave tube amplifiers (TWTA) & a quantum communication suite (QuTDS).

PSLV-XL | TDS-01

PSLV XL

Classified payload for the United States Space Force

Falcon Heavy | USSF-75

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Falcon Heavy

Up to 18 satellites manufactured by MDA for Canadian satellite operator Telesat's Lightspeed constellation.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Telesat Lightspeed 1

Blue Origin

The first mission of Blue Ring, Blue Origin's all-in-one, high-powered hybrid solar electric and chemical propelled spacecraft, will test the spacecraft's operations in Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), as well as subsequent operations after reaching Geostationary Orbit (GEO).

It will carry one of Scout Space's flagship next-generation space domain awareness (SDA) Owl sensors, which is designed to enhance real-time tracking, characterization, and assessment of space objects by integrating advanced optical sensing, onboard artificial intelligence-driven processing, and autonomous decision-making capabilities to deliver domain-wide intelligence in space in support of the U.S. Space Force’s space control mission set.

Blue Ring will also carry Optimum Technologies (OpTech)'s next-generation Caracal optical payload, which is designed to provide actionable insights on resident space objects and orbital activity and includes onboard image storage, object detection algorithms, and passive thermal control. The payload is designed to operate flexibly across dynamic orbits over a year-long mission profile.

Several internal Blue Origin payloads will also be hosted.

New Glenn | Blue Ring-1

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

Tranche 1 Transport Layer F is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites.

The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer F

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Telesat Lightspeed 6

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