Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

Russian military satellite(s) of unknown identity.

Angara 1.2 | Kosmos (Unknown Payload)

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

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Angara 1.2

SpaceX

Just Read the Instructions

Two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system. Originally planned for launch on Soyuz-ST and then Ariane 6 but both were unavailable.

Galileo provides Europe with an alternative to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS constellations, but will be interoperable with both systems.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Galileo L13 (FOC FM26 & FM32)

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Falcon 9 Block 5

Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 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 9-17

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Rocket Lab

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

Kinéis Killed the RadIoT Star

Electron | Kinéis Killed the RadIoT Star (Kinéis 6-10)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

Nick Hague

Aleksandr Gorbunov

Landing Zone 1

SpaceX Crew-9 is the ninth 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-9

Crew Dragon 2

Russian Space Forces

Glonass-K are the third generation of satellite design for GLONASS satellite navigation system. GLONASS is a Russian space-based navigation system comparable to the similar GPS and Galileo systems. This generation improves on accuracy, power consumption and design life. Each satellite is unpressurized and weighs 935 kg,  and has an operational lifetime of 10 years.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 19

Unknown Pad

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat

Replacement Vulcan test launch with inert payload, experiments, and demonstrations for certification with the USSF after delays caused by payload testing of the Sierra Space Dreamchaser CRS SNC-1 mission, the original planned payload.

Vulcan VC2S | Certification Flight 2

Space Launch Complex 41

Vulcan VC2S

A batch of 20 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consumers. The constellation is planned to have around 648 microsatellites (of which 60 are spares), around 150 kg each, operating in Ku-band from low Earth orbit.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | OneWeb 20

Galactic Energy

Ceres-1 | Unknown Payload

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 95A

Ceres-1

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 18

Orbital Launch Mount A

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

Starship IFT patch

Starship | Integrated Flight Test 5

Starbase

Starship

Four Astranis MicroGEO communications satellite inserted in a custom geostationary orbit, from where they conduct on-orbit maneuvers to reach their individual slots.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | 4x Astranis MicroGEO

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

The IGS Radar 8 is a Japanese radar reconnaissance satellite. The satellite is operated by the Cabinet Satellite Information Center. The satellite serves both Japan's national defense and civil natural disaster monitoring.

H-IIA 202 | IGS Radar 8

Tanegashima Space Center

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1

H-IIA 202

打上げ予定日（Launch Date）：2024.09.16
打上げ予定時刻（Launch Time）：14:24’20”
打上げ可能時間帯（Window）：  14:24’20”～14:25’21”  +0900 (JST)
予備期間（Preliminary duration）：  2024.09.12～2024.10.31
ペイロード衛星（Payload）： 情報取集衛星「レーダー8号」（IG...

Japanese

H-IIAロケット49号機 情報収集衛星レーダー8号機打上げ H-2A Rocket F49 IGS-Radar 8 Launch Live Streaming

Unofficial Webcast

Hera is a space mission in development at the European Space Agency in its Space Safety program. Its primary objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by DART and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid in a colliding trajectory with Earth. It will measure the size and the morphology of the crater created by and momentum transferred by an artificial projectile impacting an asteroid, which will allow measuring the efficiency of the deflection produced by the impact. It will also analyze the expanding debris cloud caused by the impact.

ESA | Hera

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hera

Atlantic Ocean

Europa Clipper is the first dedicated mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. Mission is developed by NASA and comprises of an orbiter spacecraft, which, while in orbit around Jupiter, will perform numerous flybys over Europa. Europa Clipper payload suit included high-resolution cameras and spectrometers for imaging Europa's surface and thin atmosphere, an ice-penetrating radar to search for subsurface water, and a magnetometer and gravity measurements to measure the moon's magnetic field and unlock clues about its ocean and deep interior.

Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Falcon Heavy

31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

NASA CRS-31 Patch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-31

Cargo Dragon 2

DSN 3, also known as Kirameki 3, is a geostationary communications satellite to be used for military communications by the Japanese military.

H3-22 | DSN 3 (Kirameki 3)

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2

H3-22

Firefly Aerospace

First of up to 25 launches of Low Earth Orbit technology demonstration satellites to be built and operated by Lockheed Martin. Launch operation will also again demonstrate responsive space pre-launch operation capabilities.

Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Lockheed Martin Demo 1)

Space Launch Complex 2W

Firefly Alpha

The Koreasat 6A spacecraft, built by Thales Alenia Space, will have 20 transponders for fixed satellite services and six for TV broadcasting to replace the Koreasat 6 launched in 2010.

Koreasat 6A will be based on the manufacturer’s Spacebus 4000B2 platform and is expected to weigh about 3.5 metric tons at launch. It will be designed to operate for at least 15 years.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Koreasat 6A

SXM-9 is the 10th high-powered, digital, audio radio satellite built by Maxar (SSL) for SiriusXM. The SXM-9 satellite will be based on Maxar’s proven 1300-class platform and built at the company’s manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. It is expected that SXM-9 will launch in 2024.  SXM-9 has a large, mesh, unfurlable reflector almost 10 meters in diameter that allows SiriusXM programming to reach its radios, including those in moving vehicles.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-9

USSF-106 is a mission for the United States Space Force.

US Space Force Patch

Vulcan | USSF-106

Vulcan

ROSCOSMOS

Ionosfera is a constellation of four ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites developed by for Roscosmos for the project Ionozond.

The satellites will operate on circular sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), at altitude of about 800 km and located in two orbital planes of two satellites each. 

The following science instruments are carried on the satellites:

* SPER/1 Plasma and energy radiation spectrometer
* SG/1 Gamma-ray spectrometer
* GALS/1 Galactic cosmic ray spectrometer / 1
* LAERTES On-board Ionosonde
* NBK/2 Low-frequency wave complex
* ESEP Ionospheric plasma energy spectrometer
* Ozonometer-TM Ozonometer
* MayaK On-board radio transmitters
* PES GPS-GLONASS device

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 1 & 2

Vostochny Cosmodrome

Cosmodrome Site 1S

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

Arianespace

Sentinel-1C carries an advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface. It is a replacement satellite to complete the Sentinel-1 duo after Sentinel-1B suffered a technical anomaly.

Vega-C | Sentinel-1C

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-29 (90P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

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Soyuz 2.1a

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

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