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Ariane 5 ECA | Al Yah 3 & SES-14
ArianeGroup | FranceGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Jan. 25, 2018, 10:20 p.m.
Status: Launch was a Partial Failure
Mission:
Al Yah 3 is a geostationary communications satellite built by Orbital ATK for Yahsat. It weighs 3790 kg, carries 53 Ka-band user beams and 4 gateway beams, and is intended for 15 years of operation in orbit. Al Yah 3 will provide telecommunication services to Africa and Brazil. SES-14 is also a communications satellite to be placed in geostationary orbit, replacing NSS-806 satellite. SES-14 coverage includes the Americas and the North Atlantic Region. Spacecraft also carries a hosted payload for NASA, Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission, which will be imaging Earth's thermosphere and ionospehere for two years.
Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit #VA241
Long March 2C | 3 x Yaogan-30
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 25, 2018, 5:39 a.m.
Electron | Still Testing
Rocket Lab | United States of AmericaRocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Jan. 21, 2018, 1:43 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The second test flight of the Electron small satellite launch vehicle. It is also the first Electron flight to carry commercial payload. It includes a Dove cubesat for company Planet intended for Earth observation. And also two Lemur-2 cubesats for company Spire which carry payloads for meteorology and ship traffic tracking.
Low Earth Orbit #StillTesting
Atlas V 411 | SBIRS GEO Flight 4 (SBIRS GEO-3)
United Launch Alliance | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Jan. 20, 2018, 12:48 a.m.
Long March 11 | Jilin-1-07 (Deqing-1), Jilin-1-08
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 19, 2018, 4:12 a.m.
Epsilon | ASNARO-2
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | JapanUchinoura Space Center, Japan
Jan. 17, 2018, 9:06 p.m.
Long March 2D | LKW-3 (Land Survey Satellite-3)
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 13, 2018, 7:10 a.m.
Delta IV M+(5,2) | NROL-47
United Launch Alliance | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 12, 2018, 10:11 p.m.
PSLV XL | Cartosat-2F (Cartosat-2S4)
Indian Space Research Organization | IndiaSatish Dhawan Space Centre, India
Jan. 12, 2018, 3:59 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Cartosat-2F is eighth of Cartosat series of Earth observation satellites to be deployed in a sun-synchronous orbit. Its main purpose is to collect high resolution large-scale maps which will be used for urban planning, infrastructure development, utilities planning and traffic management.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Long March 3B / YZ-1 | Beidou-3 M7 & M8
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Jan. 11, 2018, 11:18 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) is a Chinese satellite navigation system. It consists of two separate satellite constellations – a limited test system that has been operating since 2000, and a full-scale global navigation system that is currently under construction. Beidou-3 are the third generation of navigation satellites which are launched into medium Earth orbit.
Medium Earth Orbit
