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Starship | Flight 7
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Jan. 16, 2025, 10:37 p.m.
Test Flight
Seventh test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
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Jan 20, 2025
Ceres-1 | Unknown Payload
Unknown Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Details TBD.
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Jan 21, 2025
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 13-1
Low Earth Orbit Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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Upcoming Events
EVA
January 23, 2025
US EVA-92
International Space StationNASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will remove a radio frequency group antenna assembly from the station’s truss, collect samples of surface material for analysis from the Destiny laboratory and the Quest airlock to see whether microorganisms may exist on the exterior of the orbital complex, and prepare a spare elbow joint for the Canadarm2 robotic arm in the event it is needed for a replacement.
Flyby
February 18, 2025
Solar Orbiter Venus Flyby
VenusSolar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on February 18, 2025. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic …
Moon Landing
March 02, 2025
Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
Mare Crisium, MoonFirefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander will attempt a landing in Mare Crisium near Mons Latreille.
Starship
Flight 7
Orbital Launch Mount A - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USASeventh test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
New Glenn
Maiden Flight
Launch Complex 36A - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAMaiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, consisting of communicat…
Falcon 9
Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USABlue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASA’s CLPS program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of payloa…
Falcon 9
Transporter 12 (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
Starlink Group 12-4
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Smart Dragon 3
10 x CentiSpace-1
Haiyang Spaceport - Sea LaunchChinese commercial small satellites by Beijing-based company Future Navigation for providing GNSS augmentation signals services from LEO. They are pa…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 12-12
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
NROL-153
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USASeventh batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office …
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 12-11
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-71
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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