Space launches

🇰🇿 Proton-M Blok DM-03 – Elektro-L No.5 – Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (Government) — Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO) — Earth Science

81/24 (81P) (no Wikipedia article) — Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Elektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture real-time images of clouds and the Earth's underlying surface, heliogeophysical measurements, collection and translating hydrometeorological and service data.

🇮🇳 GSLV Mk. II – GISAT-1A (EOS-05) – ISRO (Government) — Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) — Earth Science

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad — Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Indian Space Research Organization 🇮🇳 (Government)

GISAT-1A (GEO Imaging Satellite) is an Indian earth observing satellite operating from geostationary orbit to facilitate continuous observation of Indian sub-continent, quick monitoring of natural hazards and disaster.

🇳🇿 Electron – StriX Launch 8 – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science

Unknown Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synspective 🇯🇵 (Private)

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

🇮🇳 PSLV XL – EOS-10 (Oceansat-3A) – ISRO (Government) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad — Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Oceansat-3A is a part of ISRO's Oceansat program. Its main purpose is ocean observation, which includes gathering ocean color data, sea surface temperature measurements and wind vector data.

🇬🇫 Vega-C – Sentinel-3C & FLEX – Avio S.p.A (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science

Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Sentinel-3C is the third satellite in the Sentinel-3 constellation, which provides high-accuracy optical, radar and altimetry data for marine and land services.

The Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite is a part of ESA's Earth Explorer program. The satellite will map vegetation fluorescence to quantify photosynthetic activity.

🇬🇫 Ariane 62 – Metop-SG B1 – Arianespace (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science

Ariane Launch Area 4 — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Second of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.

🇬🇫 Ariane 64 – MTG-I2 – Arianespace (Commercial) — Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) — Earth Science

Ariane Launch Area 4 — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Third of EUMETSAT's third generation of weather satellite.

🇺🇸 Firefly Alpha Block 2 – QuickSounder – Firefly Aerospace (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science

Space Launch Complex 2W — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 🇺🇸 (Government)

QuickSounder is the first satellite mission of the Near Earth Orbit Network (NEON) program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which aims to replace the current Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) series of polar orbit weather satellites. This pathfinder mission will demonstrate NOAA's ability to launch a small satellite within 3 years, flying a refurbished Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) instrument to polar orbit.

🇰🇷 KSLV-2 Nuri – NeonSat-2 to 6 – Korea Aerospace Research Institute (Government) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science

LC-2 — Naro Space Center, South Korea

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.

🇺🇸 Firefly Alpha Block 2 – INCUS – Firefly Aerospace (Commercial) — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — Earth Science

Launch Area 0 A — Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration 🇺🇸 (Government)

The Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) is a NASA Earth science mission led by Colorado State University that will investigate the behavior of tropical storms in order to better represent these storms in weather and climate models. It consists of 3 SmallSats flying in tight coordination to study why convective storms, heavy precipitation, and clouds occur exactly when and where they form.

Each satellite will have a high frequency precipitation radar that observes rapid changes in convective cloud depth and intensities. 1 of the 3 satellites also will carry a microwave radiometer to provide the spatial content of the larger scale weather observed by the radars. By flying so closely together, the satellites will use the slight differences in when they make observations to apply a novel time-differencing approach to estimate the vertical transport of convective mass.

🇺🇸 Falcon 9 Block 5 – KOMPSAT-7A – SpaceX (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science

Unknown Pad — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Korea Aerospace Research Institute 🇰🇷 (Government)

KOMPSAT-7 and 7A are the follow-up satellites of KOMPSAT-3A, whose mission is to provide high-resolution satellite images to satisfy South-Korea's governmental and institutional needs.

🇬🇫 Vega-C – KOMPSAT-6 & PLATiNO 1 – Arianespace (Commercial) — Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) — Earth Science

Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Italian Space Agency 🇮🇹 (Government) , Korea Aerospace Research Institute 🇰🇷 (Government)

Korean Multi-purpose Satellite 6 (KOMPSAT-6) is the sixth South Korean Earth observation satellite of the KOMPSAT series. It is equipped with a synthetic aperture radar with a ground resolution between 0.5 and 20 meters.

PLATiNO 1 is an experimental X-band SAR earth observation satellite project by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), with a radar payload from Thales Alenia Space Italia. The X-band SAR will first operate in passive mode at 619 km altitude, then in active mode after the satellites moves lower to a 410 km orbit.