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Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
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Government/Top Secret
Tranche 1 Transport Layer A is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance. This launch …
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Oct 12, 2026
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25
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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Oct 13, 2026
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35
Low Earth Orbit Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
35th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.
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Upcoming Events
Spacecraft Release
October 09, 2026
NG-24 Cygnus Release
International Space StationThe Northrop Grumman NG-24 Cygnus will be unberthed from the ISS before initiating a destructive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere taking waste along with it.
Docking
October 15, 2026
SpaceX CRS-35 Dragon Docking
International Space StationFollowing its launch atop a Falcon 9, the CRS-35 Dragon will autonomously dock to the ISS, bringing crew supplies as well as experiments.
Press Event
October 15, 2026
SpaceX Crew-12 Post-Flight News Conference
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USAAfter more than seven months aboard the International Space Station, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles. The crew members will discuss their science mission during a news conference at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA astronauts Jessica …
Press Event
October 15, 2026
NASA JAXA MMX Media Teleconference
NASA HQ, Washington DC, USANASA will hold a media teleconference to preview the agency’s contributions to JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. The mission is scheduled to launch from JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on Monday, Oct. 19 EDT (Tuesday, Oct. 20 JST). Participants in the briefing, who will …
Long March 12
SatNet LEO Group 27
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Nuri
NeonSat-2 to 6
LC-2 - Naro Space Center, South KoreaNeonSat-2 to 6 are part of the South Korean government's Earth observation micro-satellite constellation NeonSat (New-space Earth Observation Satelli…
Falcon Heavy
NROL-97
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAClassified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office.
Falcon 9
Transporter 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USADedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Falcon 9
Crew-13
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USASpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercia…
Starship
Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
Orbital Launch Pad 2 - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3 and the first Starship flight to deploy satellites (a group of S…
Falcon 9
USSF-385
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bu…
Electron
Owlright, Owlright, Owlright (StriX Launch 13)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandSynthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.
Long March 6A
Yaogan 40 Group 04
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China3 Chinese reconnaissance satellites of unknown purposes, officially reported as for "Electromagnetic environment probing".
Long March 8A
SatNet LEO Group 26
Commercial LC-1 - 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.…
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