A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-1

9th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Starship | Flight 9

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.

[NET 17:00 UTC] Long March 3B/E | Tianwen-2

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

[NET 13:00 UTC] Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-32

2nd of the BlackSky Gen-3 high resolution Earth-imaging satellites.

Electron | Full Stream Ahead (BlackSky Gen-3 2)

[NET 04:00 UTC] Long March 2D | Unknown Payload

[NET 17:00 UTC] Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV08

[NET 20:00 UTC] Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-18

The Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System (EWS) Operational Demonstration-1 (OD-1) is a weather satellite for the United States Space Force. It is a prototype satellite made by General Atomics that will be place in LEO for a three-year demonstration mission of new EO/IR sensor technologies to various US military branches, and to act as a stop-gap for Defense Department needs for weather data.

[NET May] Minotaur IV | EWS OD-1

Update from Elon Musk on Starship and SpaceX’s plan to make life multiplanetary

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