Avio S.p.A

Sentinel-3C is the third satellite in the Sentinel-3 constellation, which provides high-accuracy optical, radar and altimetry data for marine and land services.

The Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite is a part of ESA's Earth Explorer program. The satellite will map vegetation fluorescence to quantify photosynthetic activity.

FLEX Mission Patch

Vega-C | Sentinel-3C & FLEX

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

On September 14th at 10.21 PM Kourou time (01.21 UTC; 03.21 AM CEST on September 15th), Avio will launch two Earth observation satellites: the Sentinel-3C of the Copernicus programme for the European Commission and the FLEX Earth Explorer for the European Space Agency (ESA). The mission, designated “VV30”, will be carried out by a Vega C launcher, the second operated by Avio, lifting off from the European Spaceport in French Guiana.
 
The satellites will be released into Sun-Synchronous Orbit at an altitude of about 820 km with an inclination of 98.6°. The duration of the launch (from lift-off to separation of the last satellite) is 116 minutes.
 
Copernicus Sentinel-3C is the third satellite of the Sentinel-3 mission, dedicated to monitoring the health of our planet by observing ocea...

English

Vega C | Flight VV30 | Sentinel-3C - FLEX | Avio

Official Webcast

ESA’s FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite are set to launch on 15 September at 03:21 CEST (14 September at 22:21 local time). Watch the launch programme live from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, with streaming starting at 02:50 CEST and continuing until 05:36 CEST.

FLEX will provide new insights into how plants function by measuring the faint fluorescence they emit as they capture sunlight during photosynthesis. This unique measurement will help scientists better understand plant health and productivity, as well as how vegetation responds to a changing environment.

Sentinel-3C is the third satellite in the Sentinel-3 mission, which systematically monitors Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere. The mission as a whole contributes to a better understanding o...

FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch (Official broadcast)

Launch: 9:21:07 PM Eastern

Mission overview:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/09/vega-c-launch-sentinel-3c-flex/

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Vega C launches Sentinel-3C & FLEX

Unofficial Webcast

LandSpace

Possibly launch of a batch of SpaceSail LEO communication satellites. Details TBD.

Zhuque-2E Block 2 | Unknown Payload

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 96

Zhuque-2E Block 2

Orienspace Technology

Gravity-1 | Unknown Payload

Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

Yellow Sea (launch location 5)

Gravity-1

SpaceX

Of Course I Still Love You

USSF-259 is a classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bus, based on locations of ascent rocket stage drop zones being fits with previous SDA Transport Layer launches.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-259

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

USSF-259 Mission

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-35 (96P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1b

A spacecraft carrying food, fuel, and supplies is launching to the International Space Station. Watch along with us.

The unpiloted Progress 96 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to lift off at 12:15 p.m. EDT (1615 UTC) on Wednesday, Sept. 9, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After liftoff, Progress 96 will travel to the station, a trip that is scheduled to take two days. Once there, it will dock autonomously to the orbiting laboratory. 

For more than 25 years, people have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and making research breakthroughs that aren’t possible on Earth. 

The space station helps NASA understand and overcome the challenges of human spaceflight, expand commercial opportunities ...

Progress 96 Cargo Ship Launch

Coverage of the Launch of the ISS Progress 96 Cargo Craft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station

CASC

Long March 12 | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Commercial LC-2

Long March 12

ExPace

Kuaizhou 11 | Unknown Payload

Launch Area 95A

Kuaizhou-11

Long March 2D | Unknown Payload

Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 9

Long March 2D

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 15-27

Starlink Mission

14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3 and the first Starship flight to deploy satellites (a group of Starlink satellites) into stable Low Earth Orbit.

Starship IFT patch

Starship | Flight 14

Starbase

Orbital Launch Pad 2

Starship V3

Innospace

Second orbital launch attempt for the South Korean start-up Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle.

Spaceward Patch

HANBIT-Nano | Flight 2

Alcântara Launch Center

HANBIT Pad

HANBIT-Nano

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).

Electron | 6x HawkEye 360

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Unknown Pad

Electron

Jessica Watkins

Joshua Kutryk

Luke Delaney

Sergey Teteryatnikov

Landing Zone 40

SpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth 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-13

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Crew Dragon 2

Launch Complex 3 Landing Pad

First low-altitude hop test of a Themis demonstrator, with a targeted altitude up to 100 m.

Themis Demonstrator | T1H-1

Esrange Space Center

Launch Complex 3B

Themis Demonstrator

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

Tranche 1 Transport Layer A 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.

This launch carries 21 satellites manufactured by Northrop Grumman.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A

Long March 8A | Unknown Payload

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8A

Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 6

Innospace's first in-house test satellite, 'InnoSat-0', will test various technologies for future development of satellites by Innospace themselves. The satellite will be deployed using Korean company SpaceBey’s specialized deployer.

HANBIT-Nano | InnoSat-0

LOXSAT 1 is a demonstration satellite of a complete cryogenic oxygen fluid management system in orbit, developed by Eta Space and sponsored by NASA's Tipping Point program.

The system will be integrated on a Rocket Lab Photon-LEO satellite bus and collect critical cryogenic fluid management data in orbit for 9 months, demonstrating capabilities of in-space cryogenic storage and transferal. Eta Space plans to use technology developed for this mission to develop a truly commercial depot intended to serve multiple customers in the future.

Electron | LOXSAT 1

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

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.

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

Ariane Launch Area 4

Ariane 64 Block 2

Korea Aerospace Research Institute

NeonSat-2 to 6 are part of the South Korean government's Earth observation micro-satellite constellation NeonSat (New-space Earth Observation Satellite). The NeonSat constellation is the first satellite system developed by the government using a mass-production approach for precise monitoring of the Korean Peninsula.

Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6

Naro Space Center

LC-2

KSLV-2 Nuri

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.

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