“Start Me Up” Amber-1 & Others | LauncherOne
Virgin Orbit is sending several payloads to orbit onboard its air-launched rocket, LauncherOne, from the UK for the first time. This will be the first orbital launch deployed from anywhere in Western Europe.
Pléiades Neo 5 & 6 | Vega-C
Arianespace is launching its small-lift rocket, Vega, from its equatorial launch site in French Guiana. It is sending several satellites to a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). The main payload is a pair of Pléiades Neo satellites.
RAISE-3 | Epsilon PBS
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched RAISE-3 and 7 other payloads onboard an Epsilon rocket. A set of five CubeSats flew alongside the main payload.
The launch was unsuccessful. The flight was terminated prior to third stage ignition.
EMKA-3 (Kosmos 2560)| Angara 1.2
Russia is launching a small military satellite, known as EMKA-3, to a Sun-Synchronous Orbit onboard the second orbital launch of an Angara 1.2 rocket.
Gonets-M33, Gonets-M34, Gonets-M35 & Skif-D | Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Roscosmos is launching several Goniets-M communications satellites to a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) along with a Skif-D satellite to a Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), on a Soyuz 2.1b rocket featuring the optional Fregat-M final stage. It will launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome, in Far East Russia.
This particular Soyuz rocket is using a relatively new fuel type on all of its booster stages. Instead of the conventional RP-1 kerosene-based fuel, it will use "naphthyl", also known as RG-1. This is a move that is currently only planned for launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
RAISE-3 | Epsilon PBS
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is launching RAISE-3 and 7 other payloads onboard an Epsilon rocket. A set of five CubeSats are flying alongside the main payload.
Glonass-K1 No. 17 | Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat
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.
EOS-02 (Microsat-2A) | SSLV
ISRO unsuccessfully launched their new small satellite launch vehicle, SSLV for the first time with the payloads EOS-02 and AzaadiSAT.
DS-EO & others | PSLV-CA
ISRO will launch the DS-EO & others mission on their PSLV rocket from the Second Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India.
Tianxing-1 | Kuaizhou 1A
ExPace successfully launched the Tianxing-1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The satellite will be used for space environment detection.