SpaceX

A Shortfall of Gravitas

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 12-8

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date:  February 15, 2025
Launch Time:  12:00 a.m. ET, 0500 UTC, 06:00 CET
Launch Window:  Open until 3:59 a.m. ET
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA
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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-8 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live

Unofficial Re-stream

SpaceX launch of a batch of Starlink satellites for their second generation high-speed low-Earth orbit internet satellite constellation. Includes a mix of 13 Direct to Cell and 8 normal v2-mini satell...

🚀SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starlink Group 12-8

Unofficial Webcast

Of Course I Still Love You

Eighth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

NROL-146

Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-57

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. First Starlink launch to feature a Falcon 9 booster landing within The Bahamas waters.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-12

Rocket Lab

The first of five BlackSky Technology missions to deploy its new next-generation BlackSky Gen-3 satellites. The commercial constellation of Gen-3 satellites has the capability to produce imagery with 50-centimeter resolution and host multiple sensors, including in shortwave infrared (SWIR). The improved resolution and enhanced spectral diversity of the Gen-3 satellites will expand BlackSky's ability to provide real-time information to its customers.

Fasten Your Space Belts

Electron | Fasten Your Space Belts (BlackSky Gen-3 1)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

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

Landing Zone 1

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 | Nova-C IM-2 & Lunar Trailblazer

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

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

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1a

Coverage of the Launch of the ISS Progress 91 Cargo Ship to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (Launch scheduled at 4:24 p.m. EST).

Progress 91 Cargo Ship Launch

Official Webcast

Landing Zone 4

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

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

SpaceX Transporter Patch v2

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

Unknown Pad

Anne McClain

Nichole Ayers

Kirill Peskov

Takuya Onishi

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

The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.

Atlas V 551 | ViaSat-3 EMEA

Space Launch Complex 41

Atlas V 551

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.

Atlas V 551 | Project Kuiper (Atlas V #2)

ISRO

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR satellite, will use advanced radar imaging to map the elevation of Earth's land and ice masses 4 to 6 times a month at resolutions of 5 to 10 meters. It is designed to observe and measure some of the planet's most complex natural processes, including ecosystem disturbances, ice-sheet collapse, and natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides.

Under the terms of the agreement, NASA will provide the mission's L band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a high-rate telecommunication subsystem for scientific data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder, and a payload data subsystem. ISRO will provide the satellite bus, an S band synthetic aperture radar, the launch vehicle, and associated launch services.

GSLV Mk II | NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

GSLV Mk. II

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

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 a single satellite.

LVM-3 | BlueBird Block 2 #1

Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)

First of six missions launched by the Space Development Agency for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A

The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite designed by TsSKB-Progress.

In 2012, the development of the Arkon-2M radar satellite was stopped and instead the development of the Obzor-R was initiated.

The satellite features the BRLK X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar as the imaging instrument with a ground resolution of 500 m.

Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

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Fram2 is the world’s first astronaut mission to polar orbit. Named after the Norwegian polar research ship Fram, the Crew Dragon spacecraft will launch into a 90° circular orbit from Florida, making it the first human spaceflight to fly over Earth’s polar regions from low-Earth orbit. A cupola will be installed on the Dragon spacecraft to allow for Earth observation from at an altitude of 425 – 450 km. 

During the 3-to-5-day mission, the crew will study green fragments and mauve ribbons of continuous emissions comparable to the phenomenon known as STEVE (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement), persistently measured at an altitude of approximately 400 - 500 km above Earth’s atmosphere, among other studies. The crew will also work with SpaceX to conduct a variety of research to better understand the effects of spaceflight on the human body, which includes capturing the first human x-ray images in space, Just-in-Time training tools, and studying the effects of spaceflight on behavioural health.

Chun Wang, an entrepreneur and explorer who co-founded f2pool and stakefish, serves as the mission commander. The vehicle commander will be Jannicke Mikkelsen, a film director, and cinematographer. The vehicle pilot will be Eric Philips, a professional polar adventurer and guide who has completed ski expeditions to the North and South Poles. The final crew member will be mission specialist Rabea Rogge, a robotics researcher from Berlin, currently pursuing her PhD in Norway.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Fram2

Firefly Aerospace

Demonstration mission for Lockheed Martin new LM400 satellite bus, which will carry a communications payload. The satellite bus is customizable to support different missions, including remote sensing, communications, imagery and radar Earth observations. It can also support different kinds of orbits and launch configurations.

Firefly Alpha | LM400 Demo

Space Launch Complex 2W

Firefly Alpha

Blue Origin

First flight of Blue Origin's Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander.

New Glenn | Blue Moon Pathfinder

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

Payload is a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle developed by by Australian company Hypersonix.

HASTE | DART AE

Wallops Island

Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

8 satellites for a constellation of satellites developed by Orora Technologies (OroraTech) of Germany, with thermal infrared cameras that can provide 24/7 monitoring of wildfires globally, supporting better and faster wildfire response to protect forests, people, and infrastructure worldwide.

The company plans to expand their constellation with up to 100 satellites in total by 2028.

Electron | OroraTech OTC-P1

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

Kinéis Patch

Electron | Kinéis 21-25

Sergey Ryzhikov

Alexey Zubritsky

Jonny Kim

Soyuz MS-27 will carry two cosmonauts and one astronaut to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The crew consists of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky, and NASA astronaut Jonathan "Jonny" Kim.

Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-27

Soyuz MS

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, consisting of two identical satellites that will orbit Earth in tandem (one following the other), will help understand magnetic re-connection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic re-connection occurs when activity from the Sun interacts with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth.

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