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Long March 7A | Unknown Payload
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July 29, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
Unknown
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Jul 30, 2026
Long March 6A | Unknown Payload
Unknown Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Details TBD.
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Jul 30, 2026
Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-95
Unknown Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office.
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Upcoming Events
Press Event
July 29, 2026
Roman Telescope Pre-Launch Media Briefing
OnlineNASA will host a virtual news conference to preview the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, scheduled to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 30. Participants in the briefing, who will provide an overview of the mission and its status, include: - Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington - Jackie Townsend, Roman telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland - Julie McEnery, …
Press Event
July 30, 2026
US EVA-96/97/98 Preview News Conference
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USANASA will discuss the upcoming US EVA-96, 97 and 98 spacewalks during a news conference at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA participants include: - Bill Spetch, deputy manager of Commercial, Low Earth Orbit Program - Chris Dobbins, spacewalk flight director - Chloe Mehring, spacewalk flight director
Press Event
August 03, 2026
SpaceX Crew-13 Mission Overview News Conference
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USAThe Crew-13 mission leadership will host a mission overview press conference with the following participants - Joel Montalbano, deputy associate administrator, Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters - Dana Weigel, manager, Low Earth Orbit Program, NASA Johnson - Mathieu Caron, director, Astronauts, Life Sciences, and Space Medicine, CSA - Julianna …
Press Event
August 03, 2026
SpaceX Crew-13 Crew News Conference
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USAThe crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission will participate in a news conference from NASA Johnson Space Center. Participants include: - Jessica Watkins, commander, NASA - Luke Delaney, pilot, NASA - Joshua Kutryk, mission specialist, CSA - Sergey Teteryatnikov, mission specialist, Roscosmos
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 17-51
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Starship
Flight 13
Orbital Launch Pad 2 - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA13th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Second flight of Starship V3. For the first time, Starship will carry 20 V3 Starlink sa…
Kinetica 1
5 satellites
Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaShare-ride of 5 commercial Earth observation and technology demonstration satellites to SSO, including SpaceTY's TY-48. Details TBD.
Long March 3B/E
Tianlian 2-06
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaTianlian is a Chinese data tracking and relay communications geostationary satellite series. The TL 2 (Tian Lian 2) satellites represent the second g…
Gravity-1
9 satellites
Yellow Sea (launch location 5) - Haiyang Oriental SpaceportCarried 9 satellites on a share-ride to sun-synchronous orbit. Details TBD.
Falcon 9
MRV-1
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAThe Northrop Grumman/SpaceLogistics MRV-1 is a mission extension payload including a mission robotic vehicle (MRV) and multiple mission extension pod…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 17-39
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2.1b
16 x Rassvet-3
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationNote: Payload identities uncertain. Batch of 16 Rassvet-3 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Russian Byuro-1440 (Bureau 1440) conste…
Vikram-I
Demo Flight
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, IndiaFirst launch of Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-I launch vehicle. This first launch will carry 4 payloads: - Grahaa Space's SOLARAS S3 satellite - C…
Falcon 9
SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer E
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USATranche 1 Transport Layer E is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Sp…
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