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)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

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Rocket Lab - 'Daughter Of The Stars' Launch

Official Webcast

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

Livestream: "Onward and Upward" Mission of Isar Aerospace

CASC

Long March 2C | Unknown Payload

Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 9

Long March 2C

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

Starlink Mission

ExPace

Kuaizhou 1A | Unknown Payload

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 95A

Kuaizhou-1A

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

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

45/1

Soyuz-5

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

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)

Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603)

Avio S.p.A

Vega-C | PLATiNO 1

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

Long March 7A | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Long March 7A

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

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

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

Long March 12B | Demo Flight

Long March 12A Pad

Long March 12B

LandSpace

Zhuque-2E | Unknown Payload

Launch Area 96

Zhuque-2E

Space Pioneer

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

Tianlong-3 | Demo Flight

Tianlong-3 Launch Pad

Tianlong-3

ISRO

The second inflight abort test of the Gaganyaan program.

Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster | TV-D2

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-35

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-58

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

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)

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