Next Upcoming Launch
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-59
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May 18, 2024, 12:32 a.m.
Communications
A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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May 20, 2024
Long March 2D | Unknown Payload
Unknown Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Details TBD.
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May 21, 2024
Kuaizhou-11 | Unknown Payload
Unknown Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Details TBD.
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Upcoming Events
Docking
May 26, 2024
Boeing Starliner CFT Docking
International Space StationThe Boeing CST-100 Starliner will dock with the International Space Station as part of its crewed test flight.
Spacecraft Undocking
May 28, 2024
Progress MS-25 Undocking
International Space StationThe Progress MS-25 spacecraft will undock from the Poisk module of the International Space Station. It will then de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.
EVA
May 31, 2024
US EVA-90
International Space StationAstronauts will exit the station’s Quest airlock to collect microorganism samples and install a new high definition camera on the ISS truss.
Spacecraft Undocking
May 31, 2024
Boeing Starliner CFT Undocking
International Space StationThe Boeing CST-100 Starliner will undock from the International Space Station and conduct a deorbit burn as part of its crewed test flight. Following the deorbit burn the capsule will renter the Earth's atmosphere and land at the 'White Sands Missile Range' using its parachutes.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-59
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Kosmos 2576
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationRussian military payload of unknown purposes. Hitchhiking Payloads: SITRO-AIS 53-56; Zorkiy-2M-4 & 6
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 8-7
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-58
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 4C
Shiyan 23
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaSatellite officially named for "space environment detection" purposes, exact details unknown.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 8-2
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 3
ZHTW 1-01
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaZhihui Tianwang 1-01 are 2 experimental Medium Earth Orbit communication satellites in a collaboration between Tsinghua University, SAST and the Shan…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-56
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 6C
Maiden Flight
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaCarried 4 Earth observation satellites to orbit: * Haiwangxing-01, 239 kg X-band SAR satellite built by SAST for Zhihui Space Tech * Zhixing-1C, X-…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-57
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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