SpaceX’s Starlink V1.0 L15 (also known as Starlink 16) mission will launch 60 Starlink satellites atop its Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), from Cape Canaveral Airforce Station, in Florida. Starlink 15 will mark the 15th operational Starlink mission, boosting the total number of Starlink satellites launched to 953.
China is sending a sample return mission to the Moon! Chang’e 5 will be sent to the Moon on the top of a Long March 5 rocket.
SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California. The rocket will be carrying the Sentinel-6A satellite. The joint NASA/ESA satellite will collect data on sea level changes and atmospheric conditions to improve weather forecasts and climate models.
Return to Sender is Rocket Lab’s 16th mission and its first mission where they attempt to recover the first stage launching from LC-1A.
SpaceX’s Starship prototype SN-8 will perform its first 15 km test launch, taking off and landing in Boca Chica, Texas.
Crew-1 (USCV-1) will launch three NASA astronauts and one JAXA astronaut to the ISS as part of SpaceX’s efforts for the CCP.
Starship poses the ultimate challenge in aerospace engineering: a fully and rapidly reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle, capable of taking 150 tonnes to low Earth orbit. That’s more payload than the Saturn V, and it’ll be fully reusable!
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Space Forces GPS Block III SV04 GPS satellite on their Falcon 9 Block 5.
NROL-101 is a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office that will fly on top of ULAs Atlas V 531.
SpaceX’s Starlink 14 mission will launch 60 Starlink satellites atop its Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), from Cape Canaveral Airforce Station, in Florida. Starlink 15 will mark the 15th Starlink mission, boosting the total number of Starlink satellites launched to 893.
In light of the previous launch’s failure to reach orbit, Rocket Lab is once more go for launch. “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical,” will fly Capella Space’s first operational earth-observation satellite into orbit.
Russia is launching one of its GLONASS global positioning satellites to medium Earth orbit. It’s going up on a Soyuz 2.1b rocket, from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in the Archangel region of North West Russia. Soyuz has been the workhorse of the Soviet/Russian space program. The first launch of the Soyuz 2-1a version on November 8, 2004 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome represented a major step in the Soyuz launch vehicle’s development program. Fregat is the upper (4th) stage of Soyuz 2.1, and it first flew in the year 2000.
Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins are launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They are traveling to Low Earth Orbit for rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS). This crew will form Expedition 64 on the ISS and will be joined two weeks later by SpaceX’ Crew 1 flight raising the crew complement to 7.
SpaceX’s Starlink 13 mission will launch 60 Starlink satellites atop its Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 will lift off from Launch Complex 39a (LC-39a), from Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. Starlink 13 will mark the 14th Starlink mission, boosting the total number of Starlink satellites launched to 833.
Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins are launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They are traveling to Low Earth Orbit for rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS). This crew will form Expedition 64 on the ISS and will be joined two weeks later by SpaceX’ Crew 1 flight raising the crew complement to 7.
As part of the CRS-2 NG-14 mission, Northrop Grumman is launching an Antares 230+ rocket with the Cygnus spacecraft towards the ISS.
In true Blue Origin fashion, just a few days before launch, the public finally finds out about the next launch. However, this is no ordinary launch. NASA has partnered with Blue Origin and will put their new technology on the booster stage in order to test it in hopes that it will be suitable enough to be used a quarter of a million miles away on the Moon.
SpaceX’s Starlink 12 mission will launch 60 Starlink satellites atop its Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 will lift off from Launch Complex 39a (LC-39a), from Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. Starlink 12 will mark the 13th Starlink mission, boosting the total number of Starlink satellites launched to 773.
The Artemis Program – NASA is working hard on getting humans back to the surface of the Moon. If all goes well, this could happen in 2024!
SpaceX’s Starlink 11 mission will launch 60 Starlink satellites atop its Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 will lift off from Launch Complex 39a (LC-39a), from Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. Starlink 11 will mark the 12th Starlink mission, boosting the total number of Starlink satellites launched to around 715.
In light of the previous launch’s failure to reach orbit, Rocket Lab is once more go for launch. “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical,” will fly Capella Space’s first operational earth-observation satellite into orbit.
Postponed indefinitely because of the worldwide pandemic. We’ll update this page when more is known.
SpaceX will be launching the SAOCOM 1B and the GNOMES-1 Earth observation satellites along with the Sequoia SAR smallsat on top of their work horse rocket, the Falcon 9. The Falcon 9 is a two stage launch vehicle consisting of 9 Merlin 1-D open cycle engines on the first stage (hence the name, Falcon 9) and one vacuum optimized Merlin 1-D on the second stage. Both stages run on RP-1 and liquid oxygen (LOX). After stage separation, the booster will perform a boost-back burn, reorienting itself toward the cape, a reentry burn, slowing itself down before hitting the dense part of the atmosphere, and finally a landing burn, allowing for a soft touchdown on SpaceX’s landing pad Landing Zone-1 (LZ-1). As of now, it is unknown if SpaceX will attempt to recover the fairings with Go Ms. Tree and Go Ms. Chief.
SpaceX’s Starship prototype SN-5 will perform its first 150 m test launch in early August, taking of and landing in Boca Chica, Texas.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) will be launching a classified satellite for the NRO on their NROL-44 mission, on their Delta IV Heavy.
Launch Window(Subject to change) August 18, 2020 14:31 UTC | 10:31 EDT Mission Name Starlink V1.0 L10: the 11th batch of Starlink satellites SkySat 19-21: Planet Lab’s 19th, 20th, and 21st Earth Observation Satellites Launch Provider(What rocket company is launching […]
Astra will launch its Rocket 3.1 launch vehicle at the beginning of September. This will mark Astra’s first orbital launch attempt taking off from Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska.
Starlink 9 will be the ninth operational launch of SpaceX’s Starlink communication satellite constellation. It will add 57 satellites to the constellation. A Falcon 9 rocket will launch this mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex LC-39A.
SpaceX’s Starship prototype SN-5 will perform its first 150 m test launch in early August, taking of and landing in Boca Chica, Texas.
How do you get back from orbit? Do you pump the brakes and fall right out of space? We do a summary of how you deorbit, go over the hardware that allows the Crew Dragon capsule to reenter and safely splashdown.
Featured Image used with permission by Trevor Mahlmann What does this all mean? We lifted off for MARS! Yes you read that correctly, NASA has spent years developing its next piece of hardware to make the daring trek to the red […]
We are going back to MARS! Yes you read that correctly, NASA has spent years developing its next piece of hardware to make the daring trek to the red planet. The rover dubbed Perseverance will launch from the the East Coast of the United States and in around six months to land on Mars.
We do an overview of NASA’s Perseverance Rover (formerly Mars 2020), the rocket that will take it there, the timeline, and the landing sequence. All the while, drawing comparison to its older sibling, Curiosity, to see what’s changed and what has stayed the same.
It’s that season! With a previous United Arab Emirates launch to Mars and NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 mission, China has decided to join the party! We have a unique window of opportunity where the orbits of Earth and Mars line up perfectly! Tianwen 1 consists of an orbiter, lander and rover. After a previous failed attempt, this will mark China’s first time attempting to land on Mars! It will also be the first non US-American or Soviet/Russian rover on the surface of Mars.
ROSCOSMOS will be launching Progress MS-15 to the International Space Station. The spacecraft will be launched on a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Launch Complex 31/6 in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
SpaceX will launch South Korea’s first dedicated military communications satellite, ANASIS-II, on July 14, 2020. The spacecraft will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Florida. ANASIS-II will be delivered into a geostationary orbit (GEO) over the Korean Peninsula.
The UAE’s first Mars probe “Al Amal”, or Hope will launch from Japan atop a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-2A-202 rocket.
Northrop Grumman is launching a national security payload (NROL-129) on its Minotaur IV rocket vehicle, from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab’s “Pics or It Didn’t Happen” mission, launching from their Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, will fly five payloads into orbit atop its Electron rocket. The payload is a combination of National Reconnaissance Office, NASA and Royal Australian Air Force smallsats.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the American military’s next generation GPS Block III satellite from SLC-40. The launch is expected to take place NET July. Watch it live with Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut.
A return-to-flight for Arianespace’s Vega launch vehicle. It will carry the SSMS-POC dispenser with mulitple satellites. Launch from ESA’s Kourou site in French Guiana will happen in early September.
China is sending the final BeiDou version three navigation satellite into a geosynchronous orbit on their Long March 3B rocket. This will complete building the third generation Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). Similar to the American Global Positioning System (GPS), BDS is a Chinese satellite constellation that provides users with positioning data.
Starlink 8 will be SpaceX’s eigth operational launch for its Starlink communication satellite constellation. It will add 60 satellites to the constellation. For the first time on a Starlink mission, it will have a secondary payload from Planet Lab consisting of three SkySat Earth observation satellites. A Falcon 9 rocket will launch this mission from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40.
Starlink 7 will be the seventh operational launch of SpaceX’s Starlink communication satellite constellation. It will add 60 satellites to the constellation. A Falcon 9 rocket will launch this mission from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon DM-2 mission will launch NASA astronauts Douglas G. Hurley and Robert L. Behnken to the ISS no earlier than late May 2020. This will be Dragon’s first flight to carry astronauts into orbit and is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew program. Watch it live with Everyday Astronaut Tim Dodd.
A timeline video that follows Bob and Doug from suit-up, transport to the launch site, entering the Dragon, fuelling, launch, and docking with the International Space Station. Weather scrub criteria is also included.
This is the maiden orbital flight for Virgin’s LauncherOne system. It is an air-launched rocket carried aloft by a modified Boeing 747-400 dubbed _Cosmic Girl_. This mission will launch the rocket over the Pacific Ocean, west of Los Angeles. Live footage is not planned by the Virgin.
Making a movie in space? Shooting out-of-this-world photographs? Space Shuttle pilot and International Space Station commander Terry Virts did this and more, before Tom Cruise! Everyday Astronaut’s writers had a chance to interview him recently about his space films and his post-space career.
The X-37B is a U.S. Space Force test vehicle. This time it will ferry the most payloads it has ever carried into orbit. It will launch on ULA’s Atlas V 501.
Imagine a simple conversion error caused a multi-million dollar mission to go puff! A video released by Everyday Astronaut this week looks at how NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999. We explore how NASA’s team of contractors made a math boo-boo that cost them the mission just as it approached Mars.
SpaceX will conduct Starship’s first launch during a 150-meter hop in Boca Chica, Texas. This follows in the footsteps of “Star Hopper” and its test flights last year. We expect the “hop” to happen in early to mid-May 2020.
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