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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.

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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.

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United Launch Alliance | Vulcan | USSF-57 Rocket Launch

First of three Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared geostationary satellites designed for missile warning.

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SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-34 Rocket Launch

34th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

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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 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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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 9 Block 5 | MRV-1 Rocket Launch

The SpaceLogistics MRV-1 is a mission extension payload including a mission robotic vehicle (MRV) and multiple mission extension pods (MEPs).

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