Russian Space Forces

Unidentified classified satellites for the Russian military.

Soyuz 2.1v/Volga | Kosmos (Unknown Payload)

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

43/4 (43R)

Soyuz 2-1v Volga

On Wednesday February 05, 2025, Russian Space Forces launched the Kosmos (Unknown Payload) mission with a Soyuz 2-1v Volga from 43/4 (43R) at Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation.

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Russian Space Forces Kosmos (Unknown Payload) Soyuz 2-1v

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SpaceX

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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 12-9

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Falcon 9 Block 5

Rocket Lab

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

IoT 4 You and Me Patch

Kinéis Patch

Electron | IoT 4 You and Me (Kinéis 16-20)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

Of Course I Still Love You

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-10

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

CASC

Demonstration flight of the Long March 8A rocket with upgraded first stage and boosters engines, and a new larger liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen second stage with new YF-75H engines derived from ones used on the Long March 5.

Payload is TBD.

Long March 8A | Demo Flight

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Long March 8A

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-18

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-8

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-12

Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 1

Unknown Pad

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

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

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1a

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)

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)

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

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

Firefly Aerospace

First of up to 25 launches of Low Earth Orbit technology demonstration satellites to be built and operated by Lockheed Martin. 

TacSat is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance spacecraft with a mission to prove specialized sensing and communications capabilities on orbit. The satellite will participate in exercises that highlight cross-domain kill-web connectivity, enabling timely execution of tactical space missions.

TacSat will host a proven Lockheed Martin infrared sensor on board that brings previously developed technology to space for the first time. This sensor produces high quality imagery and it can interface with federated Battle Management Command & Control (BMC2) combat systems to provide joint forces with a comprehensive view of threats.

The satellite will also feature Lockheed Martin’s first 5G.MIL® payload on orbit. This provides cellular-like networking for military space assets, making satellite constellations more resilient. It also helps enable seamless connectivity with tools in the air, at sea and on land.

Launch operation will also again demonstrate responsive space pre-launch operation capabilities.

Firefly Alpha | TacSat

Space Launch Complex 2W

Firefly Alpha

32nd 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.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32

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)

Space Launch Complex 41

Atlas V 551

Blue Origin

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

New Glenn | Blue Moon Pathfinder

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

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

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

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

ISRO

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.

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