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Space Missions

Profiles of the launches and spacecraft on the space events calendar. Each one lists the operator, rocket, launch site and orbit, and links to the operator's own page. Facts the operator has not published are marked as such.

  • Crewed

    Soyuz MS-29

    Roscosmos (Soyuz spacecraft); NASA astronaut Anil Menon is aboard · Soyuz-2.1a

  • Technology Demo

    LOXSAT (Electron)

    Eta Space (payload) with Rocket Lab (spacecraft bus and launch), under a NASA Tipping Point agreement · Electron

  • Cargo Resupply

    HTV-X2

    JAXA · H3 (JAXA has not published the configuration)

  • Communications

    Atlas V 551 — Amazon Leo

    United Launch Alliance (launch); Amazon (Amazon Leo satellites) · Atlas V 551 (five side-mounted solid rocket boosters, 5.4 m medium-length fairing)

  • Navigation

    QZS-7 (Michibiki No. 7)

    Cabinet Office, Government of Japan (Quasi-Zenith Satellite System) · H3 (Flight No. 9)

  • Earth Science

    Metop-SG B1

    EUMETSAT, with ESA as the development agency · Ariane 6

  • Communications

    SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer

    Space Development Agency (U.S. Space Force) · Falcon 9

  • Communications

    Starlink Group 15-25

    SpaceX · Falcon 9

  • Cargo Resupply

    SpaceX CRS-35

    NASA and SpaceX · Falcon 9 with a Dragon cargo spacecraft

  • Planetary Science

    MMX (Martian Moons eXploration)

    JAXA (ISAS) · H3 (Flight No. 10)

  • Earth Science

    KOMPSAT-7A (Arirang 7A)

    KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) · Not stated by the operator

  • Earth Science

    KOMPSAT-6 (Arirang 6)

    KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) · Vega C (selected in 2023, per Avio)

  • Astronomy

    PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars)

    ESA · Ariane 6 with two boosters (Ariane 62)

  • Lunar Exploration

    Blue Ghost Mission 2

    Firefly Aerospace, under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) · Not stated on Firefly's mission page

  • Planetary Science

    Lucy

    NASA (Southwest Research Institute leads the science team) · Atlas V 401

  • Astronomy

    NEO Surveyor

    NASA (managed by JPL) · SpaceX Falcon 9