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Long March 3B/E | Tianlian 2-04
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
March 26, 2025, 3:55 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Tianlian is a Chinese data tracking and relay communications geostationary satellite series. The TL 2 (Tian Lian 2) satellites represent the second generation of this relay satellite network, and is based on the DFH-4 Bus, a three-axis-stabilized telecommunications satellite platform. TL 2 will be used to support real-time communications between orbiting satellites and ground control stations. This system will replace the current network of ground-based space tracking and telemetry stations and space tracking ships.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Long March 7A | TJSW-16
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaWenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
March 29, 2025, 4:05 p.m.
Long March 2D | 4 x SatNet test satellites
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
April 1, 2025, 4 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Officially described as "Satellite-Internet Technology Demonstration Satellites". Probable 4 test satellites for the Chinese state-owned LEO communication satellite constellation SatNet, 2 by Galaxy Space and 2 by Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co.
Low Earth Orbit
Long March 6 | Unknown Payload
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaTaiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
April 3, 2025, 2:10 a.m.
Long March 3B/E | Tianwen-2
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
TBD May, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Tianwen-2 is a planned Chinese asteroid sample return and comet orbiter mission due for launch in May 2025. The spacecraft will visit the Near Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), collecting samples from its surface using both touch-and-go and anchor-and-drill approaches. It will return the samples back to Earth around 2.5 years after launch, with the main spacecraft proceeding to visit the main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS in the mid-2030s.
Asteroid
Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 20
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
TBD December, 2025
Long March 3B/E | Fengyun-4C
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaXichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
TBD December, 2025
Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 21
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaJiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
TBD December, 2025
Long March 7 | Tianzhou-9
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaWenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
TBD December, 2025
Long March 5 | Chang'e 7
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | ChinaWenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Chang'e 7/CE-7 is scheduled to launch in 2026, including an orbiter, a lander, a mini-hopping probe, and a rover. The mission will land in the South Pole regions of the Moon to study lunar surface environment around the South Pole, especially in looking for water ice in lunar soil.
Lunar OrbitFalcon 9
NROL-69
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAClassified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office
Ceres-1
Yunyao-1 43-48
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China6 weather satellites performing atmospheric measurements using GNSS Radio Occultation for a Tianjin based company. Constellation is planned to have a…
Falcon 9
NROL-57
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAEighth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office t…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 12-25
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Electron
High Five (Kinéis 21-25)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandLast of five batches of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.
Ceres-1
8 satellites
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaCarried 8 satellites to 535 km high SSO: * Yunyao-1 #55-60 * AIRSAT-06 & 07
Angara 1.2
3 x Rodnik (Kosmos 2585, 2586, 2587)
35/1 - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationNote: Payload identity and Cosmos series numbering not confirmed. The Strela (Russian: Стрела) are Soviet, then Russian, military space telecommun…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 12-16
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Transporter 13 (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.
Long March 2D
SuperView Neo 3-02
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaCommercial Earth observation satellite built by CAST for China Siwei Survey and Mapping Technology Co. Ltd, with 0.5 m resolution over 9 image wavele…
