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Electron | Owl By The Dozen (StriX Launch 12)
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Earth Science
Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.
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Sep 19, 2026
Long March 2D | Unknown Payload
Unknown Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Details TBD.
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Sep 20, 2026
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-27
Low Earth Orbit Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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Upcoming Events
Docking
September 19, 2026
Progress MS-35 Docking
International Space StationThe Progress MS-35 spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously dock to the Poisk module of the ISS.
Flyby
September 30, 2026
Juice Earth Flyby
EarthThird flyby of ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission on its way to the Jovian system.
Orbital Insertion
November 30, 2026
BepiColombo Mercury Orbit Insertion
MercuryOrbital insertion around Mercury of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission.
Flyby
December 24, 2026
Solar Orbiter Venus Flyby
VenusSolar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on December 24, 2026. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic …
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Kosmos (Unknown Payload)
43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationNote: Launch vehicle and payload identities not confirmed. Launch time is approximate. Unknown classified satellite(s) for the Russian military.
Kuaizhou 11
SpaceTY-51 & 52
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China2 Earth observation radar satellites built by the Chinese satellite manufacturer SpaceTY.
Falcon 9
USSF-259
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAUSSF-259 is a classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield …
Long March 12
SatNet LEO Group 25
Commercial LC-2 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of ChinaA batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…
Soyuz 2.1b
Progress MS-35 (96P)
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanProgress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Gravity-1
SpaceSail Polar Group #16
Yellow Sea (launch location 5) - Haiyang Oriental Spaceport9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with …
Zhuque-2E Block 2
SpaceSail Polar Group #15
Launch Area 96A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China10 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with…
Vega-C
Sentinel-3C & FLEX
Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) - Guiana Space Centre, French GuianaSentinel-3C is the third satellite in the Sentinel-3 constellation, which provides high-accuracy optical, radar and altimetry data for marine and lan…
Falcon 9
O3b mPower 11-13
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA3 high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.
Electron
Happily Ever Faster (BlackSky Gen-3 5)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandNote: Payload and customer identities were not publicly announced. 5th of the BlackSky Gen-3 high resolution Earth-imaging satellites.
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