Mission type: 🗙 Biology | Communications | Dedicated Rideshare | Earth Science | Government/Top Secret | Human Exploration | Lunar Exploration | Mission Extension | Navigation | Planetary Science | Resupply | Robotic Exploration | Space Situational Awareness | Technology | Test Flight | Tourism | Unknown
Vehicle: Ariane 62 | Atlas V 551 | Ceres-1 | Electron | Epsilon S | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Firefly Alpha | Gaganyaan Abort Test Booster | GSLV Mk. II | H-IIA 202 | H3-22 | Kii-based Advanced & Instant ROcket System | Kinetica 1 | Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III) | Long March 2C | Long March 3B/E | Long March 4C | Long March 7 | Minotaur IV | New Glenn | PSLV | PSLV XL | RS1 | Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M | Soyuz 2.1b | Soyuz 2.1b Fregat | Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M | Spectrum | SSLV | Starship | Terran 1 | Vega-C | Vulcan | Vulcan VC4S | Vulcan VC6L
Orbit: Asteroid | Elliptical Orbit | Geostationary Transfer Orbit | Geosynchronous Orbit | Heliocentric N/A | Low Earth Orbit | Lunar Orbit | Medium Earth Orbit | Polar Orbit | Suborbital | Sun-Synchronous Orbit | Unknown
Proba-3 (Project for On-Board Autonomy 3) is the first close formation flying mission for the European Space Agency (ESA). It consists of two independent, three-axis stabilised spacecraft flying 150 meters from one another with the ability to accurately control the attitude and separation of the two craft. Such formation flying will be maintained for 6 hours, creating ″artificial solar eclipse″ for the satellite below.
The spacecraft pair will fly a highly elliptical orbit divided between periods of accurate formation flying around apogee, when payload operations will be possible, and periods of free flight.
SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) is an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) technology mission to demonstrate autonomous docking between 2 spacecraft in orbit.
The mission will involve two spacecraft (Chaser and Target) rendezvous and docking together, plus testing attitude control of the combined spacecraft under docked conditions. The Chaser and Target spacecraft will then be separated for operating other payload. The mission is critical to develop rendezvous and docking abilities for ISRO’s future human spaceflight and lunar sample return missions.
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).
First of up to 25 launches of Low Earth Orbit technology demonstration satellites to be built and operated by Lockheed Martin. Launch operation will also again demonstrate responsive space pre-launch operation capabilities.
OSAM-2 is a mission to demonstrate the ability of small spacecraft to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components in low-Earth orbit. Once it’s positioned in low-Earth orbit, the spacecraft will 3D-print two beams that extend 32 feet (10 meters) out from each side of the spacecraft. As manufacturing progresses, each beam will unfurl two solar arrays that generate as much as five times more power than traditional solar panels on spacecraft of similar size.
Payload consists of a single 30 kg NASA payload to be delivered to a 500 km orbit with a 41 degrees inclination.