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NETSep 10

SSMS POC

Vehicle	Vega
Location	Guiana Space Centre ELV
Time	TBD

This Vega rocket flight will launch several smaal satellites into orbit. among its payload are: Esail, Athena, Astrocast 1 (?10), GHGSat-C1, Lemur-2y (x TBD), PICASSO, SIMBA, DIDO-3, Royal Thai Air Force cubesat, NEMO-HD, TRISAT, FSSCat A, FSSCat B, IGOSat, PINO, QARMAN, Casaa-Sat.

NETSep 15

Eutelsat 5 West B

Vehicle	Proton-M (Commercial)
Location	Baikonur Cosmodrome LC-200
Time	TBD

EUTELSAT 5 West B will be launched in 2019, replacing the EUTELSAT 5 West A satellite currently operating at 5° West. This new digital resource will primarily address broadcast markets in France, Italy and Algeria

NETSep 17

Starliner CST-100 OFT-1

Vehicle	Atlas V 401
Location	Cape Canaveral AFS SLC-41
Time	TBD

Boeing's Starliner CST-100 Orbital Flight Test-1 (OFT-1) is the first test flight of the new commercial spacecraft. Staliner will fly on an Atlas-V N22 booster to International Space Station. The version of the Atlas V tasked with sending the space "taxi" to the ISS is different in that it will have two engines in the Centaur second stage.

Apr 2019: Boeing’s first crewed test flight gains extension

NETSep 25

Soyuz MS-15

Vehicle	Soyuz-FG
Location	Baikonur Cosmodrome LC-31
Time	TBD

Soyuz MS-15 will bring the Expedition-61 crew (Oleg Skripochka and Jessica Meir) to ISS. The 3rd crew member onboard is Hazza Al Mansouri from the United Arab Emirates, he will make a 10 day trip to ISS and land with the Soyuz MS-12 crew (minus Koch, who will stay on ISS).

NETSep

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.

NETOct 15

CSG 1 & CHEOPS

Vehicle	Soyuz-2 (Arianespace)
Location	Guiana Space Centre ELS
Time	TBD

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket will carry the first COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG 1) radar surveillance satellite for ASI, the Italian space agency. The European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite, or CHEOPS, will fly as a secondary payload on the mission. Built by Airbus Defense and Space in Spain with a Swiss-developed science instrument, CHEOPS will observe transits of planets around other stars to measure their radii.

NETOct 19

Cygnus NG-12

Vehicle	Antares 200
Location	Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport LP-0A
Time	TBD

The 12th Cygnus cargo spacecraft to fly to the International Space Station.

NETNov 15

Crew Dragon Demo 2

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

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on its first crewed test flight. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will fly on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon spacecraft will return to a splashdown at sea.

NETNov

Shijian 20

Vehicle	Long March 5
Location	Wenchang Space Center LA-1
Time	TBD

A Chinese Long March 5 rocket will launch the Shijian 20 communications satellite which will replace the Shijian 18 satellite lost in a launch failure in 2017.

NETDec 4

CRS-19

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

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the 21st Dragon spacecraft mission on its 19th operational cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station. The flight is being conducted under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

NETDec

GPS 3-03

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

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the U.S. Air Force’s third third-generation navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System. The satellite is built by Lockheed Martin.

Missions No Earlier Than 2019

NET2019

Chang’e 5

Vehicle	Long March 5
Location	Wenchang Space Center LA-1
Time	TBD

Chang'e 5 is a Chinese robotic mission to collect at least 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of lunar soil and rock samples from Earth's moon and return them to Earth. This would be the first lunar sample return mission attempted by any nation since 1976.

Missions No Earlier Than 2020

NET2020

SAOCOM 1B

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

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the SAOCOM 1B satellite for CONAE, Argentina’s space agency. SAOCOM 1B is the second of two SAOCOM 1-series Earth observation satellites designed to provide radar imagery to help emergency responders and monitor the environment, including the collection of soil moisture measurements.