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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Intelsat 40e

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 7, 2023, 4:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Intelsat 40e is an advanced geostationary satellite that will provide Intelsat’s government and enterprise customers across North and Central America with high-throughput, “coast-to-coast” services. The satellite’s capabilities will support the growing number of customers that depend on Intelsat’s managed services and solutions to easily integrate satellite into their overall networking and communications strategies. Hosted on the Intelsat 40e satellite is NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO), an Earth science instrument that will observe air pollution over North America in unprecedented detail.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1076 - Flight Proven ( ) A Shortfall of Gravitas
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Hyperbola-1 | Dummy Payload

iSpace | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
April 7, 2023, 4 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Test launch of Hyperbola-1 to test reliability after 3 successive failures in 2021-22.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 0A

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 2, 2023, 2:29 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First mission launched by the Space Development Agency for the Tranche 0 Transport Layer.

Polar Orbit B1075 - Flight Proven ( ) Landing Zone 4
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Tianlong-2 | Demo Flight

Space Pioneer | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
April 2, 2023, 8:48 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First launch of the Tianlong-2 and first launch for the Chinese private company Space Pioneer. It carried a dummy payload and the iTaikong Science cubesat to SSO for technology demonstration and public outreach Earth observation purposes.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Long March 4C | Yaogan 34-04

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
March 31, 2023, 6:27 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Officially described as an optical remote-sensing satellite built by SAST.

Low Earth Orbit
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Long March 2D | PIESAT-1 x 4

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
March 30, 2023, 10:50 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for PIESAT (1 main, 3 sub-satellites), operating in tandem using very long baseline interferometry, with resolution at 0.5 - 5 m.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-10

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 29, 2023, 8:01 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

A batch of 56 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Low Earth Orbit B1077 - Flight Proven ( ) Just Read the Instructions
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Soyuz 2.1v | Kosmos 2568 (EO MKA-4)

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 29, 2023, 7:57 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Note: Payload identity uncertain. Russian reconnaissance satellite of unknown purposes, possibly in the same series as Kosmos 2551, 2555 and 2560.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Shavit-2 | Ofek-13

Israel Aerospace Industries | Israel
Palmachim Airbase, State of Israel
March 28, 2023, 11:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Ofek is a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites. Ofek-13 is an Israeli SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) reconnaissance satellite that combines high resolution with large area coverage using electronic beam steering.

Low Earth Orbit
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LVM-3 | OneWeb 18

Indian Space Research Organization | India
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
March 26, 2023, 3:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

A batch of 36 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consumers. The constellation is planned to have around 648 microsatellites (of which 60 are spares), around 150 kg each, operating in Ku-band from low Earth orbit.

Polar Orbit
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