Kenneth Lafferty Hess
American - (BO)
Occasional Spaceflight
Date of Birth: Jan. 22, 1953
Age: 73
Ken is a software engineer and entrepreneur who shaped today's technology-based family history industry when he developed the Family Tree Maker product line in the 1990s. The company was acquired by Ancestry.com in 2003. In 2001, Ken gave back by founding Science Buddies, a K-12 nonprofit created to level the playing field and improve STEM literacy by inspiring students through free, personalized, hands-on projects in all areas of science, including space exploration. Science Buddies has reached one-quarter billion users. Ken’s lifelong passion for space exploration is in his DNA, with numerous early American pioneers in his mother’s lineage and many engineers and technicians in his father’s.
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.
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 LandSpace's own Guangchuan-03 & 04 for testing and demonstrating LEO communication sa…
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.…
