SpaceX Dragon Cargo Ship Docks with ISS, Delivering Supplies and Scientific Experiments

In a move ahead of schedule by about 20 minutes, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship automatically …

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Japan Successfully Launches Kirameki 3 Communications Satellite with H3 Rocket

Military

The American Defense Department and the LEO Satellite

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SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry the final segment of OneWeb’s Gen 1 satellites to low Earth orbit. Nearly eight minutes after liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, the Falcon 9 first stage booster, will return for a touchdown at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4). Launch on hold due to Falcon 9 second stage problem on Crew 9.

launch: November One Web 20

Launch Complex 36 - Kennedy Center, Florida

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch the company’s Blue Ring spacecraft, which is capable of both hosting and deploying multiple payloads. Blue Origin will attempt to land the first stage booster on its sea-based landing platform, ‘Jacklyn.’ The name of rocket it is dedicated to John Glenn, the first American astronaut to reach Earth orbit on February 20, 1962.

launch: November New Gleen 1

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch on its second demonstration flight with Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser cargo vehicle for the International Space Station. The Dream Chaser is a lifting body resupply spacecraft that will launch on top of a rocket and land on a runway. This will be the Dream Chaser’s first flight to space.

launch: November Dream Chaser 1

Kourou Guyana Space Center, French Guyana

The Vega-C European launcher of ESA (built in Italy by Avio), will launch the Sentinel 1C satellite of Copernicus Program for Observation Earth

launch: December 3 VEGA-C Sentinel 1C

Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch a pair of identical spacecraft on NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission. The two satellites, named Blue and Gold, will make a roughly 11-month journey to Mars where they will then perform about an 11-month science mission while orbiting the Red Planet. Blue and Gold were manufactured by Rocket Lab over about 3.5 years and carry science experiments from the University of California, Berkeley. This launch of the New Glenn rocket will also feature a landing attempt on its landing barge in the Atlantic Ocean.

launch: December 30 - CSES 2