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Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-12
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 14, 2019, 7:14 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Soyuz MS-12 begins expedition 59 by carrying Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin, NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch and Nick Hague to the International Space Station. After launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, they will rendezvous to the station where they will remain for their 6 month stay.
Low Earth Orbit
Long March 3B/E | Zhongxing 6C (Chinasat 6C)
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
March 9, 2019, 4:28 p.m.
SARGE | Launch 2 - "Mission 1"
EXOS Aerospace | United States of AmericaSpaceport America, NM, USA
March 2, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Status: Launch was a Partial Failure
Mission:
The SARGE rocket carried several small research payloads and was intended to reach a peak altitude of 80 kilometers. It only reached a peak altitude of about 20 kilometers before gliding back to a landing about 1.2 kilometers from the launch pad.
Suborbital SARGE 1 - Flight Proven ( ) Spaceport America
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX-DM1 (Demonstration Mission 1)
SpaceX | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 2, 2019, 7:49 a.m.
Soyuz STB/Fregat | OneWeb 1 (F6)
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Feb. 27, 2019, 9:37 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
OneWeb satellite constellation is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consumers. The constellation is planned to have around 720 microsatellites, around 150 kg each, operating in Ku-band from low Earth orbit. Eventually it can be expanded to include extra 1260 satellites, for a total of 1980.
Polar Orbit #VS21
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity VF-01
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Feb. 22, 2019, 4:57 p.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Satu & GTO-1 (Beresheet, S5)
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 22, 2019, 1:45 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Spaceflight’s first mission beyond Lower Earth Orbit (LEO) and its first combined launch with SSL. Consists out lunar lander called Beresheet (Hebrew for in the beginning) and AFRL’s S5 satellite.
Lunar Orbit B1048 - Flight Proven ( ) Of Course I Still Love You
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | EgyptSat-A
Progress Rocket Space Center | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 21, 2019, 4:47 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
EgyptSat-A (MisrSat A) is Egypt's third Earth remote-sounding satellite. The satellite is jointly built by Egypt's National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences together with RKK Energiya in Russia. The imaging payload was developed by OAO Peleng and NIRUP Geoinformatsionnye Sistemy in Belarus. The satellite is an improved version of EgyptSat 2 and is also based on RKK Energiya's 559GK bus, which inherits technologies from their USP platform. The satellite features SPD-70 electric engines using Xenon. It features an improved opto-electronic system and onboard control system, high-speed on-board radio link and solar cells with increased efficiency.
Low Earth Orbit
Ariane 5 ECA | Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 & GSAT-31
ArianeGroup | FranceGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Feb. 5, 2019, 9:01 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Hellas Sat 4/SaudiGeoSat 1 is a geostationary communications satellite to be used jointly by Hellas Sat and KACST. It will provide advanced telecommunications capabilities, including television, internet, telephone and secure military communications to customers in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Another passenger of the launch is an Indian communications satellite GSAT-31.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Safir 1B | Doosti
Iranian Space Agency | IranSemnan Space Center, Islamic Republic of Iran
Feb. 5, 2019, midnight
