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Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-186
Launch Status
Success
Date & Time
29 Jun, 3:14am
UTC
Location
Pad
Space Launch Complex 4E
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Booster
B1081
8th flight (31d since last use)
Landing
Drone Ship (Of Course I Still Love You)
Success
Mission
NROL-186
Mission Type
Government/Top Secret
Destination
Unknown
Second batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
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Upcoming Vandenberg SFB Launches
FLTA005 (Noise of Summer)
Firefly Aerospace
1 Jul, 4:03am
UTC
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Low Earth Orbit
Fourth flight of the Firefly Alpha small sat launcher, carrying eight cubesats for NASA's ELaNa 43 (Educational Launch of a Nanosatellite) mission.
Last Update: NET June 30 local time.
Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
SpaceX
TBD
Jul 2024
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Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Last Update: NET July 10.
Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM)
SpaceX
TBD
Jul 2024
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Elliptical Orbit
ASBM (Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission) 1 & 2 are two twin satellites built by Northrop Grumman for Space Norway, in cooperation with Inmarsat and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence.They are designed to bring mobile broadband coverage in the Arctic for both civilians and military.The US Air Force provides the Extremely High Frequency eXtended Data Rate payloads on ASBM satellites as part of the Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization (EPS-R) program.
Last Update: NET late July.
Starlink Group 7-19
SpaceX
TBD
Jul 2024
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Low Earth Orbit
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: Jun 29, 6:30pm UTC
Starlink Group 7-21
SpaceX
TBD
Jul 2024
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Low Earth Orbit
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: Jun 29, 6:30pm UTC
Starlink Group 7-20
SpaceX
TBD
Jul 2024
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Low Earth Orbit
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: Jun 29, 6:30pm UTC
Starlink Group 7-22
SpaceX
TBD
Jul 2024
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Low Earth Orbit
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: Jun 29, 6:30pm UTC
Starlink Group 7-24
SpaceX
TBD
Jul 2024
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Low Earth Orbit
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: Jun 29, 6:30pm UTC
Starlink Group 7-23
SpaceX
TBD
Jul 2024
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Low Earth Orbit
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: Jun 29, 6:30pm UTC
SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
SpaceX
TBD
Sep 2024
First of six missions launched by the Space Development Agency for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Updated: Jun 29, 6:30pm UTC
FLTA006 (Lockheed Martin Demo 1)
Firefly Aerospace
TBD
Sep 2024
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Low Earth Orbit
First of up to 25 launches of Low Earth Orbit technology demonstration satellites to be built and operated by Lockheed Martin. Launch operation will also again demonstrate responsive space pre-launch operation capabilities.
Updated: Jun 13, 5:30pm UTC
NAOS
SpaceX
TBD
2024
NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembourg Earth Observation System). Its purpose is to provide high resolution images to national and international governmental and military organizations such as NATO.The 800 kg satellite is built by OHB Italia and is equipped with a very high-resolution optical camera with a ground reolution of 50 cm in an around 450 km high sun-synchronous orbit. It will have a operational life time of 7 years.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:32pm UTC
NROL-174
Northrop Grumman Space Systems
TBD
2024
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Unknown
Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Updated: Jan 16, 9:30am UTC
SpaceX
TBD
Apr 2025
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Polar Orbit
SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies.It also will search for water and organic molecules β essentials for life as we know it β in regions where stars are born from gas and dust, known as stellar nurseries, as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.NASAβs Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with SPHEREx. It consists of four suitcase-sized satellites, which will focus on the Sunβs outer atmosphere (the corona) and how it generates the solar wind. The spacecraft also will track coronal mass ejections β large eruptions of solar material that can drive large space weather events near Earth β to better understand their evolution and develop new techniques for predicting such eruptions.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
EWS OD-1
Northrop Grumman Space Systems
TBD
May 2025
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Sun-Synchronous Orbit
The Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System (EWS) Operational Demonstration-1 (OD-1) is a weather satellite for the United States Space Force. It is a prototype satellite made by General Atomics that will be place in LEO for a three-year demonstration mission of new EO/IR sensor technologies to various US military branches, and to act as a stop-gap for Defense Department needs for weather data.
Updated: Jan 17, 7:30am UTC
Sentinel-6B
SpaceX
TBD
Nov 2025
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Low Earth Orbit
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (launched November 2020) and Sentinel-6B make up the Sentinel-6 mission, also known as Jason Continuity of Service (Jason-CS), which is a partnership between NASA, NOAA, ESA, and EUMETSAT. This mission continues the long-term global sea surface height data record begun by first Jason satellites in 1992.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
Rivada 1
SpaceX
TBD
2025
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Polar Orbit
24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
Rivada 2
SpaceX
TBD
2025
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Polar Orbit
24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
Rivada 3
SpaceX
TBD
2025
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Polar Orbit
24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
Rivada 4
SpaceX
TBD
2025
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Polar Orbit
24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
Rivada 5
SpaceX
TBD
2025
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Polar Orbit
24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
Rivada 6
SpaceX
TBD
2025
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Polar Orbit
24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
Falcon 9 Block 5 | CAS500-2
SpaceX
TBD
2025
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer C
SpaceX
TBD
2025
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Polar Orbit
Classified mission launched by the Space Development Agency (SDA) for Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC