Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-22

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-3

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Türksat 5B

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-4

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-25

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-34

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hotbird 13G

Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 1 & 2

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-2

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-5

A Shortfall of Gravitas

Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., better known as SpaceX is an American aerospace company providing cheap and reliable launch services as well as ferrying crew and cargo to and from the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew and Commercial Resupply Services program.

SpaceX

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

Merlin 1D

Merlin 1D Vacuum

Falcon 9 Block 5

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

Starlink Group 5-5

Low Earth Orbit

Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Space Launch Complex 40

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Launch Successful

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-24

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-23

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hotbird 13F

Falcon 9 Block 5 | OneWeb 15

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-3

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SES-18 & SES-19

Just Read the Instructions

SES-18 & SES-19 are two communications satellites built by Northrop Grumman.

SES-18 & SES-19

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-87

Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-85

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SARah 1

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 3-2

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-29

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SWOT

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 2-6 & ION SCV009

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 2-8

Of Course I Still Love You

Starlink Group 2-8

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-15

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SES-22

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-26

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-35

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hakuto-R M1 & Lunar Flashlight

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Amazonas Nexus

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-27

27th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

CRS-27

Soaking up Carbon Dioxide

A Helping Hand for Hearts

Student Innovation for Stable Images

Banishing Biofilms

Life in Space

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch Complex 39A

Cargo Dragon 2

Cargo Dragon C209

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV04

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV05

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Inspiration4

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-5

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 1

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-16

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nilesat-301

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-25

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-27

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-36

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-1

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-4

Falcon 9 Block 5 | OneWeb 17

Landing Zone 1

Return to Launch Site

A batch of 48 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.

OneWeb 17

Polar Orbit

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-1

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-2

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-8

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-23

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-7

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 4 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 5 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Globalstar-2 FM15 & USA 328-331

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 3-3

Falcon 9 Block 5 | EROS-C3

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 2-7

Starlink Group 2-7

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-6

Unknown

SpaceX Crew-6 is the sixth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Crew-6

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Stephen Bowen

Active

Government

Warren Hoburg

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

Andrei Fedyaev

Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre

Sultan Al Neyadi

Crew Dragon 2

Crew Dragon Endeavour

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-26

Falcon 9 Block 5 | OneWeb 16

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-1

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

Starlink  6-1

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-5

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV06

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Inmarsat-6 F2

Inmarsat-6 is the sixth generation of satellites for the London-based global mobile satellite communications operator Inmarsat. It consists of a dual mission to augment both L-band and Ka-band Global Xpress services.

Airbus Defence and Space has been awarded a contract by Inmarsat to design and develop the first two Inmarsat-6 (I-6) mobile communications satellites, creating the most versatile mobile services satellites in its fleet.

The two I-6 satellites are based on Airbus Defence and Space's Eurostar platform in its E3000e variant, which exclusively uses electric propulsion for orbit raising. The satellites take advantage of the reduction in mass that this electric propulsion technology enables for a dual payload mission, with an exceptionally large next generation digitally processed payload.

I-6 F1 and F2 both carry a large 9 m aperture L-band antenna and nine multibeam Ka-band antennas, and feature a high level of flexibility and connectivity. A new generation modular digital processor provides full routing flexibility over up to 8000 channels and dynamic power allocation to over 200 spot beams in L-band. Ka-band spot beams are steerable over the full Earth disk, with flexible channel to beam allocation.

Inmarsat-6 F2

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 28

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-11

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-13

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 3-1

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 3-4

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-31

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 2-5

Starlink  2-5

Starlink  5-4

High-throughput geostationary communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space for Hispasat.

Amazonas Nexus

Starlink  5-3

Starlink  2-6

Starlink  5-2

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 2-4

Starlink  2-4

GPS-IIIA (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known as "tranche") of GPS III satellites.

GPS III SV06

Medium Earth Orbit

United States Air Force

GPS III USAF Mission Patch

Falcon Heavy | USSF-44

Falcon Heavy | USSF-67

Landing Zone 2

Atlantic

Ocean

The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.

Falcon Heavy

USSF-67 is a  mission for the United States Space Force.

USSF-67

CBAS

Long Duration Propulsive ESPA

Falcon Heavy horizontal in front of SpaceX hangar

Falcon Heavy horizontal at LC-39A

Falcon Heavy takes flight

Sun sets as Falcon Heavy stands tall at LC-39A

OneWeb 16

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV03

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 11

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 14

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Türksat 5A

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 18

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 22

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 24

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 2 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-3

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-6

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-9

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-14

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-19

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Galaxy 33 & 34

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 6 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Transporter 5 mission is a dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Transporter 6 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Transporter SpaceX Mission Patch

Landing Zone 4

Israeli Earth Observation satellite with 38 cm resolution in panchromatic mode and 76 cm resolution in multi-spectral mode, covering a swath of ~12.5 km.

The satellite is similar to OPTSAT-3000 built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for the Italian Defense Ministry.

EROS-C3

Starlink  5-1

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX-DM2 (Demonstration Mission 2)

Falcon 9 Block 5 | ANASIS-II

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 12

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-21

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 1 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 20

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 23

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 26

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-1

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 3 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-8

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-17

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-21

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-2 & BlueWalker 3

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-37

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

Starlink  4-37

First and second of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.

O3b mPower 1 & 2

Previous Launches

ON THIS DAY (UTC)

1962

P-21A

NASA

SCOUT X-2

Launch Area 3, Wallops Island, Virginia, USA

1977

OVAL

SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM

KOSMOS-3M

132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

1984

US-KS 2

SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM

PROTON-K/DM

200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

2002

JCSAT 2A

ARIANESPACE

ARIANE 44L

Ariane Launch Area 2, Kourou, French Guiana

2005

EKSPRESS AM-2

KhSC

PROTON-K/DM-2M

200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

2016

BEIDOU NO. 22

CASC

LONG MARCH 3A

Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

2018

GSAT-6A

ISRO

GSLV MK II

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad, Sriharikota, Republic of India

2018

VNIIEM EMKA

RUSSIAN SPACE FORCES

SOYUZ 2.1V

43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

2018

BEIDOU-3 M9 & M10

CASC

LONG MARCH 3B / YZ-1

Unknown Pad, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

2022

DEMO FLIGHT

CASC

LONG MARCH 6A

Launch Complex 9A, Taiyuan, People's Republic of China

Mar 24

STARLINK 5-5

SPACEX

FALCON 9 BLOCK 5

Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Mar 17

SES-18 & SES-19

SPACEX

FALCON 9 BLOCK 5

Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Mar 17

STARLINK 2-8

SPACEX

FALCON 9 BLOCK 5

Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mar 15

DRAGON CRS-2 SPX-27

SPACEX

FALCON 9 BLOCK 5

Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mar 09

ONEWEB 17

SPACEX

FALCON 9 BLOCK 5

Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Mar 03

STARLINK 2-7

SPACEX

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