Month: February 2025

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Proton-M/Blok DM-03 | Elektro-L No.5 Rocket Launch

Elektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture real-time images of clouds and the Earth’s underlying surface, heliogeophysical measurements, collection and translating hydrometeorological and service data.

Ariane 64 Arianespace Communications French Guiana Guiana Space Centre

Arianespace | Ariane 64 | Amazon Leo (LE-01) Rocket Launch

Amazon Leo, formerly known as 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.

32 satellites will be carried on this launch.

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-13 Rocket Launch

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation – SpaceX’s project for space-based Internet communication system.

Space One | KAIROS | Flight 3 Rocket Launch

Third flight of the KAIROS launch vehicle.

4 satellites will be on board:

* TATARA-1R
* SC-Sat1a
* HErO
* AETS-1

CA Falcon 9 Government/Top Secret SpaceX USA Vandenberg SFB

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A Rocket Launch

Tranche 1 Transport Layer A is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites.

The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.

This launch carries 21 satellites manufactured by Northrop Grumman.

Skyroot Aerospace | Vikram-I | Demo Flight Rocket Launch

First launch of Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-I launch vehicle, with several cubesats on board. Payload identities TBD.

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-36 Rocket Launch

A batch of 29 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 operationally, after the trajectory was tested during launch of Starlink Group 10-12 in February 2025.

China Rocket Co. Ltd. | Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload Rocket Launch

Possibly an Earth observation satellite for the Pakistan government’s SUPARCO, details TBD.