Whereas the primary week of 2023 noticed just one launch worldwide, issues will get lots busier in week 2. Virgin Orbit is about to conduct its first launch from the UK, ABL Area hopes to launch its first rocket ever, and SpaceX and China have three launches apiece on their manifests.
Up to date at 1/8/23 at 3:23 p.m. PST: SpaceX OneWeb launch postponed 24 hours to Jan. 9 at 11:50 pm EST. Awaiting phrase on whether or not this may impression the remainder of SpaceX’s manifest this week.
Orbital Launches
Jan. 8-14
| Date | Launcher – Group | Payload – Group | Objective | Launch Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 8 | Lengthy March 7A – CASC+ | Shijian-23 – CAST* | Tech demo | Wenchang |
| Jan. 9 11:50 pm ET |
Falcon 9 – SpaceX | 40 OneWeb – OneWeb | Broadband | Cape Canaveral |
| Jan. 9 | Ceres-1 – Galactic Power | TBA | TBA | Yellow Sea |
| Jan. 9-13 5 pm ET |
RS1 – ABL Area | VariSat-1A, 1B – VariSat | Tech demo | PSC-Alaska |
| Jan. 9 5:16 pm ET |
LauncherOne – Virgin Orbit | A number of | A number of | Cornwall |
| Jan. 9 11:15 pm ET |
Falcon 9 – SpaceX | 51 Starlink – SpaceX | Broadband | Vandenberg |
| Jan. 12 5:45 pm ET |
Falcon Heavy – SpaceX | CBAS-2, LDPE-3A – U.S. Area Power | Communications, tech demo | Kennedy |
| Jan. 14 | Lengthy March 3B/E – CASC+ | ChinaSat-26 – China Satcom | Communications | Xichang |
+China Aerospace Science and Expertise Company
Virgin Orbit’s will conduct its “Begin Me Up” launch from Spaceport Cornwall in England. The corporate’s Cosmic Lady 747 jetliner will take off from Newquay Cornwall Airport and drop the LauncherOne rocket off the southern coast of Eire. Will probably be the primary orbital launch to originate from the UK.
The rocket is carrying 9 satellites from the UK, United States, Oman and Poland. The AMAN Earth remark satellite tv for pc shall be Oman’s first satellite tv for pc.
Virgin Orbit
Begin Me Up Launch Payloads
| Payload | Firm/Company | Objective | Nation |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMAN | ETCO | Earth remark | Oman |
| CIRCE A, B | DSTL*/NRL# | Ionospheric analysis | UK/USA |
| DOVER | RHEA Group | Tech demo | UK |
| ForgeStar-0 | Area Forge | Tech demo | UK |
| IOD-3 Amber | Satellite tv for pc Functions Catapult | Maritime area consciousness | UK |
| Prometheus 2A, 2B | UK Ministry of Defence/NRO+ | Tech demo | UK/USA |
| STORK-6 | SatRevolution | Earth remark | Poland |
# U.S. Naval Analysis Laboratory
+ Nationwide Reconnaissance Workplace
All earlier Virgin Orbit flights have originated from the Mojave Air and Area Port in Mojave, Calif. LauncherOne has a file of 4 successes and one failure.
ABL Area is hoping to get its RS1 launcher off the bottom for the primary time this week from the Pacific Spaceport Complicated – Alaska after a number of unsuccessful makes an attempt final 12 months. The launch window runs from Jan. 9-13. The rocket is carrying a pair of VariSat know-how demonstration satellites designed to offer excessive frequency marine information communications.
RS1 is a two-stage rocket designed to position payloads weighing 1,350 kg (2,976 lb) into low Earth orbit.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 is about to launch 40 OneWeb broadband satellites from Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida on Monday. It’s the second of three Falcon 9 launches booked by OneWeb.
One other Falcon 9 will launch 51 Starlink broadband satellites from Vandenberg Area Power Base in California. Will probably be SpaceX’s first Starlink launch of the 12 months. The corporate has launched 3,666 Starlink satellites on 70 flights since February 2018.
Elon Musk’s firm will shift its consideration again to Florida for a Falcon Heavy launch on Thursday. The enormous rocket will carry a pair of satellites into orbit for the U.S. Area Power.
China Aerospace Science and Expertise Company (CASC) has a pair of launches scheduled that may carry communications and know-how demonstration satellites.
Galactic Power has a launch of its Ceres-1 rocket scheduled. The payload for the flight is unknown.
Final Week’s Launch
SpaceX launches its sixth Transporter mission with 114 payloads aboard on Jan. 3.
Transporter 6 — High Payloads
| Firm/Company | Payloads | Objective | Quantity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planet Labs | SuperDove | Earth remark | 36 |
| Swarm Applied sciences (SpaceX owned) | SpaceBEE | Communications | 12 |
| Skykraft | Skykraft | Air site visitors administration | 6* |
| Spire World | Lemur-2 | Meteorology, ship & plane monitoring | 6 |
| DARPA+ | Blackjack | Reconnaissance | 4 |
| Astrocast | Astrocast | Web of Issues | 4 |
| Sen | EarthTV | Earth remark – UHD streaming | 4 |
| Kleos Area | KSF3 | Navigation | 4 |
| ICEYE | ICEYE | Earth remark | 3 |
| Albania authorities/Satellogic | Albania-1, -2 | Earth remark | 2 |
| D-Orbit | ION SCV-007, -008 | CubeSat deployer | 2 |
| Lynk World | Lynk Tower 3, 4 | Communications | 2 |
| Royal NLR++/TNO^/FFI** | MilSpace-2 1, -2 2 | Tech demo | 2 |
| Satellogic | ÑuSat 34, 35 | Earth remark | 2 |
| Umbra Lab | Umbra-05, -06 | Earth remark | 2 |
| Whole | 90 |
*5 satellites and Skykraft satellite tv for pc deployer
++Royal Netherlands Area Centre
^Netherlands Organisation for Utilized Scientific Analysis
**Norwegian Defence Analysis Institution
SpaceX has launched 550 payloads on six Transporter missions since January 2021. All flights have been to sun-synchronous orbits.
