Month: September 2024

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1 Rocket Launch

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.

United Launch Alliance | Atlas V 551 | ViaSat-3 EMEA Rocket Launch

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.

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 9-11 Rocket Launch

Last three of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-23 Rocket Launch

This is the 23rd flight of the Northrop Grumman’s uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 22nd flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others Rocket Launch

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models.
IMAP launch also includes several secondary payloads from NASA, which are: a small lunar orbiter called Lunar Trailblazer, space weather satellite SWFO-L1, GLIDE mission to study far ultraviolet emission in exosphere and a solar sail mission Solar Cruiser.

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | KOMPSAT-7A Rocket Launch

KOMPSAT-7 and 7A are the follow-up satellites of KOMPSAT-3A, whose mission is to provide high-resolution satellite images to satisfy South-Korea’s governmental and institutional needs.

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpainSat NG II Rocket Launch

Second of two new-generation satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications to the Spanish government, its allies, and various international organizations.