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Dec 13

ELaNa-19

Vehicle	Electron
Location	Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1
Time	5:00 PM NZDT / 2018-12-13 04:00:00Z
Window	4 hours

U.S. small satellite launch company Rocket Lab is planning the company’s third launch of 2019, the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa)-19 mission for NASA. The nine-day launch window for ELaNa-19 opens on Dec. 13, 2018. The flight is slated to get underway between 04:00 - 08:00 GMT from Rocket Lab’s private launch site, Launch Complex 1, located on New Zealand’s M?hia Peninsula.

Dec 18

GPS 3-01

Vehicle	Falcon 9 v1.2
Location	Cape Canaveral AFS SLC-40
Time	9:24 AM EST / 2018-12-18 14:24:00Z
Window	26 minutes

GPS III SV01 is the first of the U.S. Air Force’s third-generation Global Positioning System (GPS III) navigation satellites. The first GPS III satellites are scheduled for launch in 2018, continuing through at least 2022. The GPS III SV01 spacecraft was delivered to Cape Canaveral in late August 2018.

Aug 2018: GPS III Satellite shipped to the Cape in preparation for flight

Dec 26

Blagovest 13L

Vehicle	Proton-M
Location	Baikonur Cosmodrome LC-81
Time	4:12 AM ALMT / 2018-12-25 22:12:00Z

The 3rd Blogovest commercial satellite is scheduled to launch with the final Proton rocket with a Briz-M upper stage from launch complex 200 from the Baikonur Cosmosdrome.

NETDec 27

Kanopus-V 5 & 6

Vehicle	Soyuz-2
Location	Vostochny Cosmodrome LD1
Time	TBD

A Soyuz-2-1a rocket with a Fregat-M upper stage will launch two new Kanopus reote sensing satellites from the Vostochniy cosmodrome.

NETDec

NROL-71

Vehicle	Delta IV Heavy
Location	Vandenberg AFB SLC-6
Time	TBD

A ULA Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch the NROL-71 payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. NROL-71 is most likely a Keyhole KH-11 image reconnaissance satellite.

Missions No Earlier Than 2018

NET2018

ICON

Vehicle	Pegasus-XL
Location	Cape Canaveral AFS
Time	TBD
Window	1 hour, 30 minutes

NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite will be the 44th satellite launched to orbit by the air-dropped Pegasus XL rocket, carried to drop altitude by an L-1011 carrier aircraft. ICON will study Earth's ionosphere, a region of the upper atmosphere affected by solar storms and weather phenomena where terrestrial weather meets space weather. Disturbances in the ionosphere affect GPS/satellite navigation and radio transmissions.

Missions No Earlier Than 2019

NETJan

Arabsat-6A

Vehicle	Falcon Heavy
Location	Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
Time	TBD

Arabsat 6A is a Saudi Arabian geostationary communications satellite

Feb 2018: Arabsat’s latest communications satellite assembled in preparation for flight

NETJan

Iridium NEXT Flight 8

Vehicle	Falcon 9 v1.2
Location	Vandenberg AFB SLC-4
Time	TBD

This will be the final of eight planned SpaceX Falcon 9 launches for Iridium Communications, which is replacing its entire constellation of legacy spacecraft with the Iridium NEXT satellites. This flight will orbit the 66th-75th next-generation satellites.

NETJan 17

Crew Dragon Demo 1

Vehicle	Falcon 9 (Crew Dragon)
Location	Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
Time	TBD

A SpaceX "full thrust" Falcon 9 rocket will launch the crewed variant of the Hawthorne, California-based aerospace firm's Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on an un-piloted test flight. The mission is slated to get underway from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Jan 23

WGS-10

Vehicle	Delta IV Medium+ (5,4)
Location	Cape Canaveral AFS SLC-37
Time	6:00 PM EST / 2019-01-23 23:00:00Z
Window	6 hours

Boeing Satellite Systems was selected to develop the WGS system as successors to the DSCS-3 series of DOD communications satellites. This will be the 10th satellite of 12 to be launched.

NETJan 30

Chandrayaan-2

Vehicle	GSLV Mk III
Location	Satish Dhawan Space Centre SLP
Time	TBD

India's second robotic mission to the Moon will be launched by a GSLV Mk II rocket. The Chandrayaan-2 mission will include an orbiter, lander and rover. Once in orbit around the Moon, the lander/rover combo will detach from the orbiter to descend to the surface. Once landed, the six-wheeled rover will be deployed. Meanwhile, the orbiter will perform remote-sensing activities.

NETFeb 17

CRS-17

Vehicle	Falcon 9 v1.2
Location	Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
Time	TBD

SpaceX will conduct its 17th Dragon cargo flight to the International Space Station in support of NASA's Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) program. The company's Dragon spacecraft will be loaded with crew supplies, and experiments to be used on the orbiting lab.

NET2019

STP-2

Vehicle	Falcon Heavy
Location	Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
Time	TBD

The Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission is comprised of a cluster of military and scientific research satellites for the United States Air Force (USAF). The mission is currently slated to use a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to be launch from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.