National Aeronautics and Space Administration | SLS Block 1 | Artemis II Rocket Launch
Artemis II is the first crewed mission as part of the Artemis program. Artemis II will send a crew of 4 – 3 Americans and 1 Canadian around the moon and return them back to Earth.
The mission will test the core systems of NASA’s Orion spacecraft including the critical life support system, among other systems which could not be tested during Artemis I due to the lack of crew onboard.
SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-35 Rocket Launch
A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation – SpaceX’s project for space-based Internet communication system.
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.
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.
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.
Rocket Lab | Electron | Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare) Rocket Launch
JAXA-manifested rideshare of eight separate spacecraft that includes educational small sats, an ocean monitoring satellite, a demonstration satellite for ultra-small multispectral cameras, and a deployable antenna that can be packed tightly using origami folding techniques and unfurled to 25 times its size.
The satellites were originally planned to launch with RAISE-4 on a Japanese Epsilon-S rocket, but the Epsilon-S was heavily delayed due to test firing failures.
The 8 satellites are:
* MAGNARO-II
* KOSEN-2R
* WASEDA-SAT-ZERO-II
* FSI-SAT2
* OrigamiSat-2
* Mono-Nikko
* ARICA-2
* PRELUDE
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-34 (95P) Rocket Launch
Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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 | Starship | Flight 12 Rocket Launch
12th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Maiden Flight of Starship V3