Rocket Launch Schedule

Northrop Grumman Space Systems | Minotaur IV | STP-S29A Rocket Launch Details
CA Minotaur IV Northrop Grumman Space Systems Technology USA Vandenberg SFB

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.

United Launch Alliance | Atlas V N22 | Starliner-1 Rocket Launch Details
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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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems | Pegasus XL | Swift Rescue Mission Rocket Launch Details
Air launch to orbit Mission Extension Northrop Grumman Space Systems Pegasus XL

Northrop Grumman Space Systems | Pegasus XL | Swift Rescue Mission Rocket Launch

Contracted by NASA under the Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 contract, Katalyst Space Technologies’ LINK servicing spacecraft will rendezvous and attach to NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to re-boost its orbit. This aims to demonstrate a key capability for the future of space exploration and extending the Swift mission’s science lifetime in gamma ray astronomy.