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Long March 2D | PIESAT-2 09-12
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaTaiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 16, 2024, 6:50 p.m.
Long March 5B/YZ-2 | SatNet LEO Group 01
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaWenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
Dec. 16, 2024, 10 a.m.
HASTE | Stonehenge
Rocket Lab | United States of AmericaWallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Dec. 14, 2024, 1 a.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-2
SpaceX | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 13, 2024, 9:55 p.m.
Long March 2D/YZ-3 | High Speed Laser Diamond Constellation Test System
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 12, 2024, 7:17 a.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-5
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 8, 2024, 5:12 a.m.
Simorgh | Fakhr-1 & Saman-1
Iranian Space Agency | IranSemnan Space Center, Islamic Republic of Iran
Dec. 6, 2024, 3:14 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Fakhr-1 is a 3U size cubesat to test locally produced spacecraft components, a communication payload and launch vehicle's multi-payload carrying capability. Saman-1 is a prototype solid fuel kick stage with 3-axis control for sending payloads into higher orbits.
Low Earth Orbit
Vega-C | Sentinel-1C
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Dec. 5, 2024, 9:20 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Sentinel-1C carries an advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface. It is a replacement satellite to complete the Sentinel-1 duo after Sentinel-1B suffered a technical anomaly.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-9
SpaceX | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Dec. 5, 2024, 4:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
SXM-9 is the 10th high-powered, digital, audio radio satellite built by Maxar (SSL) for SiriusXM. The SXM-9 satellite will be based on Maxar’s proven 1300-class platform and built at the company’s manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. It is expected that SXM-9 will launch in 2024. SXM-9 has a large, mesh, unfurlable reflector almost 10 meters in diameter that allows SiriusXM programming to reach its radios, including those in moving vehicles.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1076 - Flight Proven ( ) Just Read the Instructions
PSLV-XL | Proba-3
Indian Space Research Organization | IndiaSatish Dhawan Space Centre, India
Dec. 5, 2024, 10:34 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Proba-3 (Project for On-Board Autonomy 3) is the first close formation flying mission for the European Space Agency (ESA). It consists of two independent, three-axis stabilised spacecraft flying 150 meters from one another with the ability to accurately control the attitude and separation of the two craft. Such formation flying will be maintained for 6 hours, creating ″artificial solar eclipse″ for the satellite below. The spacecraft pair will fly a highly elliptical orbit divided between periods of accurate formation flying around apogee, when payload operations will be possible, and periods of free flight.
Elliptical Orbit
