Launch Schedule
Launch Library 2, capturedThe launch schedule from Orbital Current's daily Launch Library 2 capture, with mission details, payloads, and livestream links.

Long March 4B | Unknown Payload
Long March 4B
Details TBD.

Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
Long March 8A
Details TBD.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-16
Falcon 9 Block 5
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Vulcan VC6L | Amazon Leo (LV-01)
Vulcan VC6L
Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude. 45 satellites will be carried on each Vulcan launch.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-18
Falcon 9 Block 5
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1L (NVS-03)
GSLV Mk. II
This is a replacement satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. The constellation will provide India with an alternative to GPS and will be used for military and civilian use. Located at a geosynchronous orbit, the system will be operated by the Indian government.

Long March 12A | Flight 2
Long March 12A
Second test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket. Payload identities are TBD.

SSLV | AayulSAT-1A & others
SSLV
Ride-share launch of multiple satellites, including the in-orbit refueling demonstration satellite AayulSAT-1A from OrbitAID Aerospace. Other payload's identities TBD.

Electron | The Sea God Surveys (iQPS Launch 9)
Electron
Synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-195
Falcon 9 Block 5
Fifteenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-21
Falcon 9 Block 5
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Electron | The Mountain God Rises (iQPS Launch 10)
Electron
Synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS.

Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-04)
Ariane 64 Block 2
Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude. 35-40 satellites will be carried on each Ariane 6 launch.

Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-36 (97P)
Soyuz 2.1b
Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Mir | Demo Flight
Mir
Note: Launch vehicle name is provisional. First orbital full version launch of the South Korean military small satellite launch vehicle, after 2 sub-orbital tests of individual stages on 30 March and 30 December 2022, and 1 orbital test flight without the 2nd stage on 4 December 2023. Details TBD.

PSLV-XL | TDS-01
PSLV XL
TDS-01 (Technology Demonstration Satellite-01) is an Indian geostationary orbit technology demonstration satellite carrying payloads for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar and the CSIR-CEERI, Pilani. Payloads to be tested included an internally developed 300 mN electric powered thrusters, atomic clocks, travelling wave tube amplifiers (TWTA) & a quantum communication suite (QuTDS).

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-25
Falcon 9 Block 5
This is the 25th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 24th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1
Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)
First uncrewed orbital test flight of the Gaganyaan capsule.

HASTE | Leidos-4
Electron

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Inmarsat-7 F1 (GX-7)
Falcon 9 Block 5
Inmarsat-7 is the seventh generation of satellites for the London-based global mobile satellite communications operator Inmarsat. The three satellites of the series - GX-7, 8 & 9 - will have an improved fully reconfigurable Ka-band payload for Inmarsat's Global Xpress services. They are optimized for real-time mobility and feature thousands of dynamically-formed beams that direct capacity with laser-like precision over high-demand areas, to provide HTS (High Throughput) broadband connectivity for the mobility market. The satellites will be based on Airbus’ new standard and fully reconfigurable satellite product line OneSat. Fully reconfigurable and featuring on board processing and active antennas, the three Ka-band spacecraft will be able to adjust their coverage, capacity and frequency.
Launches that Launch Library 2 had reported lifted off when Orbital Current's daily capture ran. A launch since the latest capture appears after the next one.

Ceres-1S | Xiguang-4 01
Ceres-1S
0.5 meter resolution Earth observation satellite for the city of Guangzhou government and Guangzhou University with multi-spectral imaging capability. Prototype of a proposed 25 satellites constellation.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
Falcon 9 Block 5
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. This launch also carries the second demonstration mission for SpaceX’s Project Starfall, which aims to mass-produce reentry capsules designed to autonomously transport valuable customer experiments and other payloads safely back from space to Earth, including for in-orbit manufacturing. Starfall is a cylindrical shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters, weighing approximately 2100 kilograms, and capable of carrying 1000 kilograms of payload. It is designed to be carried on Starship flights.

H3-24 | Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)
H3-24
MMX is a Japanese scientific mission to land on Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, to collect samples before bringing them back to Earth. The mission includes a small French/German rover to explore the surface of Phobos.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-481
Falcon 9 Block 5
A classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bus, based on locations of ascent rocket stage drop zones being fits with previous SDA Transport Layer launches.

Zhuque-2E Block 2 | 10 satellites
Zhuque-2E Block 2
Ride-share of 10 satellites to sun-synchronous orbit, including LandSpace's own Guangchuan-03 & 04 for testing and demonstrating LEO communication satellite constellation technologies. Details TBD.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35
Falcon 9 Block 5
35th 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.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25
Falcon 9 Block 5
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
Falcon 9 Block 5
Tranche 1 Transport Layer A is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance. This launch carries 21 satellites manufactured by Northrop Grumman.

Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 27
Long March 12
A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group. The constellation will eventually consists of 13000 satellites.

Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6
KSLV-2 Nuri
NeonSat-2 to 6 are part of the South Korean government's Earth observation micro-satellite constellation NeonSat (New-space Earth Observation Satellite). The NeonSat constellation is the first satellite system developed by the government using a mass-production approach for precise monitoring of the Korean Peninsula. 10 ride-sharing small satellites from various Korean institutes and organizations will also fly on this launch: * SLEDGE * GBSAT * PERSAT02 * UEL-Y-Sys * SD-1 SAT * E3_TESTER-KARI-2 * DaejonSat-1 * BEE-1012 * JACK-007 * CPSat

Falcon Heavy | NROL-97
Falcon Heavy
Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Falcon 9 Block 5
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-13
Falcon 9 Block 5
SpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
Starship V3
14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3 and the first Starship flight to deploy satellites (a group of Starlink satellites known as Starlink Group 31-1) into stable Low Earth Orbit. The ship is expected to fly at an altitude approximately 275 km above Earth and complete approximately 6 orbits around the planet for nearly 10 hours, with splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile. The booster’s primary test objective on Flight 14 will be executing a successful launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and landing burn at an offshore landing point in the Gulf. Starship will deliver 26 Starlink V3 satellites to orbit for the first time, which aim to greatly expand the network's capacity and user speeds. Each Starlink V3 satellite will add 1 Tbps of capacity to the constellation.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-385
Falcon 9 Block 5
A classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bus, based on locations of rocket stage drop zones being exact fits with previous Starlink Group 15 launches.

Electron | Owlright, Owlright, Owlright (StriX Launch 13)
Electron
Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Long March 6A | Yaogan 40 Group 04
Long March 6A
3 Chinese reconnaissance satellites of unknown purposes, officially reported as for "Electromagnetic environment probing".

Long March 8A | SatNet LEO Group 26
Long March 8A
A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group. The constellation will eventually consists of 13000 satellites.

Gravity-1 | SpaceSail Polar Group #16
Gravity-1
9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with funding backed by the Shanghai local government. Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.

Zhuque-2E Block 2 | SpaceSail Polar Group #15
Zhuque-2E Block 2
10 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with funding backed by the Shanghai local government. Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.