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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Türksat 5B

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 19, 2021, 3:58 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Türksat 5B is a geostationary communications satellite. It is tasked with providing broadband telecommunication services to customers across Turkey, the Middle East and large regions of Africa.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1067 - Flight Proven ( ) A Shortfall of Gravitas
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-4

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 18, 2021, 12:41 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

A batch of 52 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Low Earth Orbit B1051 - Flight Proven ( ) Of Course I Still Love You
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Kuaizhou 1A | GeeSat x2

ExPace | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 15, 2021, 2 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Commercial navigation satellites for automobile navigation.

Low Earth Orbit
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Long March 3B | Tianlian 2-02

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 13, 2021, 4:09 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Tianlian is a Chinese data tracking and relay communications satellite series.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Proton-M/Briz-M | Ekspress-AMU3 & AMU7

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 13, 2021, 12:07 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Ekspress-AMU 3 and Ekspress-AMU 7 are two communications satellite for russian domestic communication services. While the spacecraft themselves are built by russian RSCC (Kosmicheskiya Svyaz), the communication payloads are built by Thales Alenia Space. Both satellites are based on the Ekspress-1000 bus and feature 16 Ku-, 1 L- and 20 C-band transponders. They will be located at 96.5° and 145° East respectively.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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New Shepard | NS-19

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Dec. 11, 2021, 3 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

NS-19 is the third crewed New Shepard flight, carrying two honorary guests and four paying customers.

Suborbital NS-4 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas
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Long March 4B | Shijian 6 Group 05

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | China
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Dec. 10, 2021, 12:11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The SJ 6 (Shi Jian 6) series consisted of pairs of technology satellites, which were reported to be used to probe the space environment, radiation and its effects, record space physical environment parameters, and conduct other related space experiments.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Dec. 9, 2021, 6 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a space observatory tasked with measuring the polarization of cosmic X-rays. This data will help to learn more about objects that emit these X-rays, such as black holes and neutron stars.

Low Earth Orbit B1061 - Flight Proven ( ) Just Read the Instructions
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Electron | A Data With Destiny (BlackSky 14-15)

Rocket Lab | United States of America
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Dec. 9, 2021, 12:02 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Payload consists of two BlackSky Gen-2 high-resolution multi-spectral Earth observation satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-20

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 8, 2021, 7:38 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Soyuz MS-20 will carry Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin as well as two tourists, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano, to the International Space Station.

Low Earth Orbit
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