Year: 2025

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 17 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) Rocket Launch

Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | H3-30 | H3-30 Test Flight Rocket Launch

Test flight of the H3-30 variant of the H3 launch vehicle with 3 LE-9 engines in the first stage and no SRBs. The flight will carry a dummy main payload (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 5, VEP-5) and several hitchhiking small satellites:

* PETREL

* STARS-X

* BRO-19

* VERTECS

* HORN-L/R

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United Launch Alliance | Atlas V N22 | Starliner-2 Rocket Launch

Starliner-2 is the second crewed operational flight of a Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

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SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | 8 x Globalstar-3 Rocket Launch

The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax services via its Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees.

In early 2022, Globalstar contracted with MDA for the construction of 17 new 3rd generation satellites to replenish the existing constellation. Rocket Lab is sub-contracted to build the satellites’ buses and the launch dispensers.

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SpaceX | Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific) 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.

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European Space Agency | Themis Demonstrator | T1H-1 Rocket Launch

First low-altitude hop test of a Themis demonstrator, with a targeted altitude up to 100 m.

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Arianespace | Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-03) 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.

35-40 satellites will be carried on each Ariane 6 launch.

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