Watch out, Elon Musk!īesides these already announced launches, there are companies that have not yet announced an exact date for upcoming launches. This launch should expand OneWeb’s constellation to 110 satellites. Last month, the company received new funding and resumed its operations. The launch has been delayed since mid-2020 due to OneWeb’s bankruptcy. The latter is a direct competitor to SpaceX Starlink in the deployment of a global Internet network. It will launch 36 communication satellites of the British company OneWeb into orbit. This time, the Soyuz will launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East of Russia. The “Owl’s Night Begins” mission kicks off from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. In total, the company plans to deploy a network of 30 satellites to collect daily data on urban centres across Asia. StriX is the first device in Synspective’s upcoming network.
Its lightweight rocket Electron will launch the StriX synthetic aperture radar satellite for the Japanese Earth observation company Synspective.
Rocket Lab keeps up with the pace, offering ever more nice surprises. The launch will happen from the Baikonur cosmodrome.ĭecember 12 th :Rocket Lab Electron – “Owl’s Night Begins” On the same day, the Soyuz rocket will launch the Progress 77P cargo supply vehicle to the ISS. Since November 3rd, this launch has been postponed three times. The mission includes two small satellites designed to detect electromagnetic analogs of gravitational waves and other astrophysical signals for investigating neutron stars and “black holes.” The launch will take place from the Xichang Cosmodrome in southwestern China.ĭecember 11 th: Russian Angara-A5 – 2nd test launchīack to Roscosmos, the Angara 5 rocket is to carry out a second test flight with a satellite mockup as a payload from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The launch will take place from the Satish Dhavan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, at around 09:30 GMT.ĭecember 10 th: China Long March 11th – GECAM Long March 11Ĭhina’s Long March 11th rocket will launch the Gravitational Wave Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM). The mission will use the PSLV-XL version with six mounted solid-propellant boosters. In orbit, it should replace the GSAT 12, launched in 2011. India’s ISRO will launch the CMS 1 communications satellite (formerly GSAT 12R) on a PSLV polar satellite launch vehicle. This is SpaceX’s 21st mission under NASA’s commercial supply contract. The launch took place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after being postponed 5 times since August 5th. On December 5th, the Falcon 9 launched the Dragon 2 spacecraft on its first delivery mission to the ISS. The launch was scheduled from the Plesetsk spaceport in Russia and has been postponed twice since November 24th, however on Wednesday Dec 2nd, the Soyuz 2 rocket had a successful lift-off.ĭecember 5 th: Space Falcon 9 SpaceX CRS 21 It is the second of three high-resolution satellites to replace Helios 2 spy satellites.ĭecember 3 rd: Roscosmos “Soyuz-2.1b” – “Gonets-M30-32”Īnother Russian rocket has successfully launched three communication satellites for the Gonets multifunctional system. It will deliver a second Composante Spatiale Optique (CSO-2) reconnaissance satellite into orbit for the French space agency CNES and defense procurement agency DGA. On a side note, another Arianespace Soyuz should start from Guiana on December 28th. However, on December 1st, the Arianespace rocket successfully launched from the French Guiana Space Centre. On November 28th, the launch was postponed due to bad weather conditions and again on the 29th, due to the danger of a lightning strike. Initially, the Vega rocket was supposed to carry the satellite, but after a failed launch of the Falcon Eye 1, a European carrier has been replaced by a Russian one. The original launch date was scheduled for October. The Soyuz rocket recently launched the Falcon Eye 2 remote sensing satellite for the United Arab Emirates from the Guiana Space Centre.
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