Launch Schedule

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Spaceflight Now 1/30/2022

Launch Schedule

A regularly updated listing of planned orbital missions from spaceports around the globe. Dates and times are given in Greenwich Mean Time. “NET” stands for no earlier than. “TBD” means to be determined. Recent updates appear in red type. Please send any corrections, additions or updates by e-mail to: sclark@spaceflightnow.com.

See our Launch Log for a listing of completed space missions since 2004.

Latest changes:

Jan. 29: Falcon 9/CSG 2 delayed; Falcon 9/Starlink 4-7 delayed
Jan. 28: Falcon 9/CSG 2 scrubbed; Updating time for Falcon 9/NROL-87; Adding Soyuz/Kosmos; Adding time for Soyuz/OneWeb 13; Adding Soyuz/OneWeb 14; Falcon 9/WorldView Legion 1 & 2 delayed; Adding Soyuz 67S; Soyuz/Galileo 29 & 30 delayed; Adding Falcon 9/Transporter 4; Adding vehicle configuration for Atlas 5/USSF 12; Vega C/LARES 2 delayed; Adding Falcon 9/SpaceX CRS 25; Adding date for Atlas 5/CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2
Jan. 27: Falcon 9/CSG 2 scrubbed; Falcon 9/Starlink 4-7 delayed; Astra Rocket 3/VCLS Demo 2 delayed; Adding Falcon 9/Starlink 4-8; Adding time for Soyuz/Progress 80P; Adding date for Space Launch System/Artemis 1
Jan. 23: Updating time for Falcon 9/CSG 2; Adding time for Falcon 9/Starlink 4-7; Adding date and period for Falcon 9/NROL-87; Adding date for Electron/BlackSky 16 & 17
Jan. 17: Falcon 9/Starlink 4-6 delayed

Jan. 30Falcon 9 • CSG 2

Launch time: 2311 GMT (6:11 p.m. EST)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the second COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation, or CSG 2, radar surveillance satellite for ASI, the Italian space agency. The spacecraft was built by Thales Alenia Space. Delayed from Nov. 18 and Dec. 14. Scrubbed on Jan. 27 and Jan. 28 by poor weather. [Jan. 29]

Jan. 31Falcon 9 • Starlink 4-7

Launch time: 1917 or 2234 GMT (2:17 p.m. or 5:34 p.m. EST)
Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch with another batch of Starlink internet satellites. Delayed from Jan. 29. [Jan. 29]
Feb. 2Falcon 9 • NROL-87

Launch time: 2018 GMT (3:18 p.m. EST; 12:18 p.m. PST)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency. The mission is designated NROL-87. [Jan. 28]

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SpaceX Planning For One Launch Per Week

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https://www.kabc.com/2022/01/30/spacex-planning-for-one-launch-per-week/

(Hawthorne, CA) — Elon Musk’s “SpaceX” is planning for one launch per week this year in what would be a orbital launch record. Panel member Sandra Magnus said in a meeting of a key NASA oversight committee that the private company is planning an “ambitious 52 launch manifest” for 2022. SpaceX completed 31 launches last year to beat the previous record of 26. As a whole, the company was responsible for roughly a fifth of all successful orbital rocket launches last year. They are keeping pace so far, with three successful Falcon Nine launches this month, with another two expected before the end of January.