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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
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Dedicated Rideshare
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. This launch also carries the second demonstration mission for SpaceX’s Project Starfall, which aims to mass-produce reentry capsules designed to autonomously transport valuable customer experiments and other payloads safely back from space to Earth, including for in-orbit manufacturing. Starfall is a cylindrical shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters, weighing approximately 2100 kilograms, and capable of carrying 1000 kilograms of payload. It is designed to be carried on Starship flights.
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Oct 19, 2026
H3-24 | Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)
Mars Orbit Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
MMX is a Japanese scientific mission to land on Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, to collect samples before bringing them back to Earth. The mission includes a small French/German rover to explore the surface of Phobos.
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Oct 20, 2026
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-15
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
Press Event
October 20, 2026
US EVA-100/101 Preview News Conference
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USANASA will preview two upcoming spacewalks to complete solar array installation and power augmentation of the International Space Station during a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 20, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA participants include: - Gaurang Patel, operations integration manager, Low Earth Orbit Program - Garrett Hehn, spacewalk flight director, Flight Operations Directorate
Press Event
October 23, 2026
Artemis Acceleration Press Conference
Participants include: - NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman - NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya - Jeremy Parsons, NASA’s Artemis program manager
EVA
October 29, 2026
US EVA-100
International Space StationNASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk will exit the station’s Quest airlock to install and deploy an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA) on the 2A electrical power channel. The solar array will be the seventh IROSA and will provide additional power to support critical station …
Static Fire
October 31, 2026
RS-25 Engine Test
Fred Haise Test Stand, NASA’s Stennis Space CenterNASA is conducting a hot fire of an RS-25 engine as part of certification testing for future SLS (Space Launch System) rockets. The test of developmental RS-25 engine No. 10001 is planned to run for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds) and throttle up to 111% of its rated power level.
Falcon 9
USSF-481
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…
Zhuque-2E Block 2
10 satellites
Launch Area 96A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaRide-share of 10 satellites to sun-synchronous orbit, including: * Guangchuan-03 & 04 (LT-03/04) from LandSpace's subsidiary LandTower for testing…
Falcon 9
Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA35th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commer…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 15-25
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USATranche 1 Transport Layer A is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Sp…
Long March 12
SatNet LEO Group 27
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.…
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…
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