SpaceX

A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 21 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 12-4

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Falcon 9 Block 5

On Monday January 13, 2025, SpaceX launched the Starlink Group 12-4 mission with a Falcon 9 Block 5 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.

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SpaceX Starlink Group 12-4

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Launch Date: January 13, 2025 
Launch Time: 11:47 a.m. ET, 1647 UTC, 17:47 CET
Launch Window:  up til 1:45 p.m. ET 
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA
Targeted Orbi...

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-4 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - January 13, 2025

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 21 satellites for Elon Musk's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is sch...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 21 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral

Unofficial Webcast

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

Landing Zone 4

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 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Transporter-12 Mission

Just Read the Instructions

Blue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASA’s CLPS program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of payload to the lunar surface. It will land at Mare Crisium in the Crisium Basin and is designed to last 14 days before freezing in the lunar night.

Resilience is the second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership "in situ" to the agency.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Watch Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX and Firefly Aerospace are targeting 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 UTC) ...

Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Launch to the Moon (Official NASA Broadcast)

Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is targeting […]

Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Launch to the Moon

Orbital Launch Mount A

Seventh test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

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Starship | Flight 7

Starbase

Starship

Launch Date: NET January 15, 2025
Launch Time:  4:00 p.m. CT, 2200 UTC, 23:00 CET
Launch Window: Opens at 4:00 p.m. CT and closes at 5:38 p.m. CT.  
Launch Status: Scheduled and announced 
Launch Prov...

SpaceX - Starship Suborbital Test Flight 7 - OLP-A - Starbase, Texas - Space Affairs Live

Blue Origin

Jacklyn

Maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, consisting of communications array, power systems, and a flight computer affixed to a secondary payload adapter ring, remaining attached to the 2nd stage. This launch will serve as New Glenn's first National Security Space Launch certification flight.

Target orbit is 2400 x 19300 km at 30° inclination.

NG-1

New Glenn | Maiden Flight

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

Live webcast of Blue Origin’s inaugural New Glenn mission, NG-1. The mission will carry a Blue Ring Pathfinder and mark the vehicle's first National Security Space Launch certification flight. The liv...

New Glenn Mission NG-1 Webcast

The first launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, mission name NG-1, is scheduled for no earlier than January 12, 2025, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This ...

[SCRUBBED] Watch Blue Origin Launch New Glenn For The First Time!

Watch live coverage as Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches it's New Glenn rocket for first time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff of the liquid methane and liquid hydrogen fuele...

Watch live: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches a New Glenn rocket for first time at Cape Canaveral

This is the maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. It will carry the prototype DarkSky-1 Blue Ring Pathfinder, consisting of communications array, power systems, and a flight computer affixed ...

🚀 [SCRUB] Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Attempts to Launch and Land for the First Time

Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-8

First of two new-generation satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications to the Spanish government, its allies, and various international organizations.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpainSat NG I

Unknown Pad

Second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface.

The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership "in situ" to the agency.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

CASC

Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) with funding backed by the Shanghai local government.

Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.

First launch from the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site's LC-1.

Long March 8 | G60 Group TBD

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8

Unknown

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-3

Launch Date:  TBD
Launch Time:  TBD
Launch Window:  TBD
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA
Targeted Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Inclination: Southeast
Launc...

TBD - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-3 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live

Rocket Lab

Fourth batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.

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Electron | Kinéis 16-20

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

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-1K (NVS-02)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

GSLV Mk. II

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

QZSS (Quasi Zenith Satellite System) is a Japanese satellite navigation system operating from inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits to achieve optimal high-elevation visibility in urban canyons and mountainous areas. The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation.

The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation in inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits.

H3-22 | Michibiki 6 (QZS-6)

Tanegashima Space Center

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2

H3-22

Arianespace

The CSO-3 (Composante Spatiale Optique-3 satellite is the third of three new-generation high-resolution optical imaging satellites for the French military, replacing the Helios 2 spy satellite series.

Ariane 62 | CSO-3

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 4

Ariane 62

This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Lunar Trailblazer & Nova-C IM-2

SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies.

It also will search for water and organic molecules – essentials for life as we know it – in regions where stars are born from gas and dust, known as stellar nurseries, as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with SPHEREx. It consists of four suitcase-sized satellites, which will focus on the Sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona) and how it generates the solar wind. The spacecraft also will track coronal mass ejections – large eruptions of solar material that can drive large space weather events near Earth – to better understand their evolution and develop new techniques for predicting such eruptions.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SPHEREx & PUNCH

WorldView Legion is a constellation of Earth observation satellites built and operated by Maxar. Constellation is planned to consist of 6 satellites in both polar and mid-inclination orbits, providing 30 cm-class resolution.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 5 & 6

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-30 (91P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1a

Last of five batches of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.

Electron | Kinéis 21-25

SpaceX Transporter Patch v2

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

A pair of Russian optical Earth observation satellites built by the Progress Rocket Space Centre for obtaining stereo images of the Earth's surface, with maximum resolution of 1.2 m in panchromatic mode and a swath width of 32 km.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | AIST-2T 01 & 02

Vostochny Cosmodrome

Cosmodrome Site 1S

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

Bion-M is the next generation of Russian biological research satellites. While retaining the Vostok/Zenit-derived reentry module of the earlier Bion, the propulsion module has been replace by a Yantar type module, which provides maneuvering capabilities and longer mission support. The mission duration has been increased to up to 6 months by using solar cells for energy generation. The weight of scientific equipment has been increased by 100 kilograms.

Soyuz 2.1a | Bion-M No. 2

Anne McClain

Nichole Ayers

Kirill Peskov

Takuya Onishi

Landing Zone 1

SpaceX Crew-10 is the tenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-10

Crew Dragon 2

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.

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