SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-24 Rocket Launch
This is the 24th flight of the Orbital ATK’s uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 23rd flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems | Minotaur IV | STP-S29A Rocket Launch
STP-S29A is a mission under the U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Test Program (STP) that will deliver technology demonstrations to orbit and contribute to future space system development, with this launch delivering up to 200 kg of STP cubesats to Low Earth Orbit.
The main payload will be STPSat-7, an ESPA class satellite based on the Aegis Aerospace M-1 satellite bus used on the STPSat-4 mission for hosting research and technology demonstration payloads for the Department of Defense (DoD). One of the payload is U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Lightsheet Anomaly Resolution and Debris Observation (LARADO) instrument, used to detect and characterize lethal non-trackable orbital debris with lasers in orbit.
Avio S.p.A | Vega-C | Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) Rocket Launch
Joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to investigate the interaction between Earth’s protective shield – the magnetosphere – and the supersonic solar wind.
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-34 (95P) Rocket Launch
Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
United Launch Alliance | Atlas V N22 | Starliner-1 Rocket Launch
Starliner-1 is the first operational flight of a Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Due to problems with the Starliner spacecraft’s RCS attitude control system during the Crew Flight Test mission in 2024, this mission has been re-scoped to not carry a crew by NASA. It will instead deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year.