Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket is a 18 meter height launch vehicle mainly dedicated to the small satellite launch market. Electron's first stage is powered by 9 Rutherford engines and has a maximum payload of 300Kg. The Rutherford engine is the first oxygen/kerosene engine to use 3D printing for all primary components.
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Timeline
January 31, 2020✔ Mission 11: "Birds of a Feather"
June 13, 2020✔ Mission 12: "Don't Stop Me Now"
July 4, 2020✖ Mission 13: "Pics or it didn't happen"
August 31, 2020✔ Mission 14: "I Can't Believe It's Not Optical"
October 28, 2020✔ Mission 15: "In Focus"
October 28, 2020✔ Mission 16: "Return to Sender"
December 15, 2020✔ Mission 17: The Owl's Night Begins
January 20, 2021✔ Mission 18: Another One Leaves The Crust
March 22, 2021✔ Mission 19: They Go Up So Fast
May 15, 2021✖ Mission 20: Running Out of Toes
July 29, 2021✔ Mission 21: It’s a Little Chile Up Here
November 17, 2021✔ Mission 22: Love At First Insight
December 9, 2021✔ Mission 23: A Data With Destiny
February 28, 2022✔ Mission 24: The Owl's Night Continues
Falcon 9 is a two-stage-to-orbit medium lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX for safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit.
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2019 Timeline Click to expand
• Total missions: 11
January 11, 2019✔ Mission 67: Iridium (Flight 8)
February 22, 2019✔ Mission 68: SSL (Nusantara Satu)
March 02, 2019✔ Mission 69: NASA Crew Dragon (Demo 1)
May 04, 2019✔ Mission 70: CRS-17
May 23, 2019✔ Mission 71: Starlink L0 v0.9 (Flight 1)
June 12, 2019✔ Mission 72: RADARSAT (3 Satellites)
July 25, 2019✔ Mission 73: CRS-18
August 06, 2019✔ Mission 74: AMOS 17
November 11, 2019✔ Mission 75: Starlink L1 v1.0 (Flight 2)
December 5, 2019✔ Mission 76: CRS-19
December 16, 2019✔ Mission 77: JCSat-18/Kacific1
2020 Timeline Click to expand
• Total missions: 26
January 6/7, 2020✔ Mission 78: Starlink L2 v1.0 (Flight 3)
January 19, 2020✔ Mission 79: Crew Dragon In-flight Abort Test
January 29, 2020✔ Mission 80: Starlink L3 v1.0 (Flight 4)
February 15, 2020✔ Mission 81: Starlink L4 v1.0 (Flight 5)
March 6/7, 2020✔ Mission 82: Cargo Dragon CRS-20
March 18, 2020✔ Mission 83: Starlink L5 v1.0 (Flight 6)
April 22, 2020✔ Mission 84: Starlink L6 v1.0 (Flight 7)
May 30, 2020✔ Mission 85: Crewed Dragon Demo-2 Launch
June 3-4, 2020✔ Mission 86: Starlink L7 v1.0 (Flight 8)
June 13, 2020✔ Mission 87: Starlink-8 + SkySats 16-18
June 30, 2020✔ Mission 88: GPS III-03
July 20, 2020✔ Mission 89: Anasis II Satellite
August 7, 2020✔ Mission 90: Starlink-9 + BlackSky Global 5-6
August 18, 2020✔ Mission 91: Starlink-10 + SkySats 19-21
August 30, 2020✔ Mission 92: SAOCOM 1B Satellite
August 30, 2020✔ Mission 93: Starlink-11
October 6, 2020✔ Mission 94: Starlink-12
October 18, 2020✔ Mission 95: Starlink-13
October 24, 2020✔ Mission 96: Starlink-14
November 5, 2020✔ Mission 97: GPS III-04
November 15/16, 2020✔ Mission 98: Crew Dragon: Crew-1 Mission
November 21, 2020✔ Mission 99: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
November 24/25, 2020✔ Mission 100: Starlink-15
December 6, 2020✔ Mission 101: Cargo Dragon v2 CRS-21
December 6, 2020✔ Mission 102: SXM-7 Satellite
December 19, 2020✔ Mission 103: NROL-108
2021 Timeline Click to expand
• Total missions: 31
January 7-8, 2021✔ Mission 104: Turksat 5A
January 20, 2021✔ Mission 105: Starlink-16
January 24, 2021✔ Mission 106: Transporter 1
February 4, 2021✔ Mission 107: Starlink-18
February 15-16, 2021✔ Mission 108: Starlink-19
March 4, 2021✔ Mission 109: Starlink-17
March 11, 2021✔ Mission 110: Starlink-20
March 14, 2021✔ Mission 111: Starlink-21
March 24, 2021✔ Mission 112: Starlink-22
April 7, 2021✔ Mission 113: Starlink-23
April 23, 2021✔ Mission 114: Crew-2
April 28-29, 2021✔ Mission 115: Starlink-24
May 4, 2021✔ Mission 116: Starlink-25
May 9, 2021✔ Mission 117: Starlink-27
May 15, 2021✔ Mission 118: Starlink-26
May 26, 2021✔ Mission 119: Starlink-28
Jun 3, 2021✔ Mission 120: CRS-22
Jun 6, 2021✔ Mission 121: SXM-8
June 17, 2021✔ Mission 122: GPS III-05
June 30, 2021✔ Mission 123: Transporter-2 SmallSat Rideshare
August 29, 2021✔ Mission 124: CRS-23
September 13-14, 2021✔ Mission 125: Starlink 2-1
September 15, 2021✔ Mission 126: Inspiration4 Launch
November 10, 2021✔ Crew-3 Mission
November 13, 2021✔ Mission 128: Starlink 4-1
November 23, 2021✔ Mission 129: DART
December 2, 2021✔ Mission 130: Starlink 4-3
December 9, 2021✔ Mission 131: IXPE
December 18, 2021✔ Mission 132: Starlink 4-4
December 19, 2021✔ Mission 133: Turksat 5B
December 21, 2021✔ Mission 134: CRS-24
2022 Timeline
January 6, 2022✔ Mission 135: Starlink 4-5
January 13, 2022✔ Mission 136: Transporter-3
January 19, 2022✔ Mission 136: Starlink 4-6
January 31, 2022✔ Mission 138: CSG-2
February 2, 2022✔ Mission 139: NROL-87
February 3, 2022✔ Mission 140: Starlink 4-7
February 21, 2022✔ Mission 141: Starlink 4-8
February 25, 2022✔ Mission 142: Starlink 4-11
March 3, 2022✔ Mission 143: Starlink 4-9
March 9, 2022✔ Mission 144: Starlink 4-10
March 19, 2022✔ Mission 145: Starlink 4-12
April 1, 2022✔ Mission 146: Transporter-4: Smallsat Rideshare
SN15 High Altitude Flight Test Replay (May 5, 2021)
These prototypes are test vehicles for the main Starship project.
The Starhopper prototype, powered by one Raptor engine, had a 9 meter diameter and 18 meter height. After the 4 successful tests (including the 150 meter flight) this amazing prototype is now retired and being used as a vertical test stand for Raptor engines.
In November 2019 the development of the prototypes Mk1 and Mk2 was suspended after the Mk1 prototype was destroyed in a tank pressure test. Both prototypes had 3 Raptor Engines.
In February 2020 Starship SN1 (ex Mk3) was destroyed in a pressurization test and SpaceX started testing the Starship SN2 (test tank). After SN2 passed a pressurization test in the beginning of March, the company finished the Starship SN3 prototype but it was also destroyed in the beginning of April.
The SN4 prototype was finished in April and equipped with one Raptor engine, but it was completely destroyed in a dramatic explosion right after completing a static-fire test.
In June 2020 SpaceX completed the SN7 test tank and it ruptured during a stress test.
In August 2020 the SN5 prototype, powered by a solo offset Raptor engine, made a successful 150 meter flight making it the first full-scale Starship prototype to fly and land safely. And in the beginning of September 2020 the Raptor only SN6 prototype made a successful hop flight.
In December 2020 the new steel alloy SN8 with three Raptor engines installed made the first ever high altitude flight. It reached an altitude of 12.5Km and made the "belly flop" manoeuvre and also the "flip landing". Despite exploding right on the spot on the landing pad, the test was a great success for SpaceX.
In February 2021 the prototype SN9 completed its 10km high altitude flight test. Everything went well but unfortunately it exploded on the landing pad after the flip landing manoeuvre.
In the beginning of March SpaceX successfully launched Starship prototype SN10 and it was the first prototype to land safely right on the landing pad. Unfortunately it exploded eight minutes later. In the end of that same month, SpaceX launched the SN11 prototype with harsh weather conditions and dense fog, but it exploded in flight right before the landing.
SN15 launched in the beginning of May and was the first complete success for SpaceX. The prototype landed smoothly on its legs at the landing pad and it showed that it is indeed a valid technology of a fully reusable space transportation system.
The next prototype in line seems to be new S24 and it's now almost ready to make SpaceX's first orbital flight test mounted atop the brand new Super Heavy Booster 7.
SN5 Hop Flight Replay (August 4, 2020)
SN6 Hop Flight Replay (September 3, 2020)
SN8 High Altitude Flight Test Replay (December 9, 2020)
Starship SN9 High Altitude Flight Test (February 2, 2021)
Starship SN10 High Altitude Flight Test (March 3, 2021)
Starship SN11 High Altitude Flight Test (March 30, 2021)
Starship SN15 High Altitude Flight Test (May 5, 2021)
2019 Timeline Click to expand
April 3, 2019✔
Starhopper Tethered Test 1 (Alt: Few centimeters)
April 5, 2019✔
Starhopper Tethered Test 2 (Alt: 1 meter)
July 25, 2019✔
Starhopper Hover Test 3 (Alt: 20 meters)
August 27, 2019✔
Starhopper Hover Test 4 (Alt: 150 meters)
September 28, 2019✔
Starship Update Presentation
November 20, 2019✖
Starship MK1 Explosion
2020 Timeline Click to expand
February 28, 2020✖
Starship SN1 Explosion
April 3, 2020✖
Starship SN3 Explosion
May 30, 2020✖
Starship SN4 Explosion
June 23, 2020✖
Starship SN7 Test Tank Rupture
August 4, 2020✔
Starship SN5 test Flight 1 (Alt: 150 meters)
September 3, 2020✔
Starship SN6 Test Flight 1 (Alt: 150 meters)
December 9, 2020✖
Starship SN8 High Altitude Flight Test (Alt: 12.5 Km)
2021/2022 Timeline
February 2, 2021✖
Starship SN9 High Altitude Flight Test (Alt: 10 Km)
March 3, 2021✔
Starship SN10 High Altitude Flight Test (Alt: 10 Km)
March 30, 2021✖
Starship SN11 High Altitude Flight Test (Alt: 10 Km)
May 5, 2021✔
Starship SN15 High Altitude Flight Test (Alt: 10 Km)
August, 2022 Starship S24 + Booster 7 Orbital Flight Test
The Space Launch System is an American Space Shuttle-derived heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle. It is part of NASA's deep space exploration plans including a crewed mission to Mars. It will be the most powerful rocket ever built with a total thrust greater than that of the Saturn V, putting the SLS into the super heavy-lift launch vehicle class of rockets.
Artemis Timeline (Credit: Nasa)
Artemis-1 Mission will be the first flight of the SLS and the second flight of the Orion spacecraft. It will send the uncrewed Orion capsule on a loop around the Moon to test the hardware in deep space. The mission will have a planned duration of 25 days.
Artemis-1 Details (Credit: Nasa)
The plan for the Artemis-2 Mission is for a crewed Orion spacecraft with four astronauts to perform a lunar flyby test and return safely to Earth.
The launch of the Artemis-3 Mission is scheduled for 2024 and it will finally land 2 humans, a man and a woman on the surface of the moon at the lunar south pole.
The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing, suborbital crewed rocket developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism. The main objective of the New Shepard program is to carry tourists, commercial payloads and scientific experiments on brief trips to suborbital space.
The CST-100 Starliner (Crew Space Transportation) is Boeing's entry for NASA's
Commercial Crew Program that will launch astronauts to the International Space Station.
Mission Timeline
November 4, 2019✔
Pad Abort Test
December 20, 2019✖
OFT-1: Orbital Flight Test to ISS (Uncrewed)
May 19, 2022✔
OFT-2: Orbital Flight Test-2 to ISS (Uncrewed)
The AFSPC-44 mission is scheduled for launch in 2021 for the United States Air Force (USAF).
This classified mission will use a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to be launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.
Intuitive Machines Nova-C Moon Lander will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket and will carry five NASA payloads to the Moon to explore and test technologies to process some natural resources of our natural satellite. Unfortunately the lander is not expected to survive the lunar night.
Astrobotic's Peregrine moon lander will be launched by the first ever United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur misson (successor to ULA's workhorse Atlas V rocket).
It will carry 24 different payloads (almost half of them provided by NASA) to study several aspects of the moon's environment like the lunar regolith, the moon's radiation environment and the the chemistry of the moon's thin atmosphere. Unfortunately the lander is not expected to survive the lunar night.
The Peregrine lander will also carry two small rovers: Spacebit's walking rover (UK) and Dymon's Yaoki rover (Japan).
Spacebit's tiny walking rover will be the first payload from the UK to reach the moon surface. It will drop from beneath the Peregrine rover, move at least 10 meters with its own four legs and transmit fullHD videos during its 10 day mission.
Yaoki rover will be Japan's first lunar rover and it was developed by Tokyo-based company Dymon. It is also a very small robot and, unlike Spacebit's rover, will have wheels instead of walking legs.
The Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander mission will be India's second attempt to land on the moon after the partial failure of the Vikram lander that crashed on the moon's surface during the previous Chandrayaan-2 mission.
This new mission will have a lander and a rover. If all runs as expected, India's ISRO will become the
fourth space angency to soft land a spacecraft on the surface of the moon.
Asteroid study and sample-return mission to study asteroid 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous 500 meter diameter asteroid. The objective of the mission is to grab a sample from the asteroid and bring it to Earth.
Mission Timeline
September 08, 2016✔ Launch
December 03, 2018✔ Arrival at asteroid 101955 Bennu (Alt. 5 Km)
October 20, 2020✔ Sample extraction "Touch and Go"
Masten Space Systems was selected by NASA to fly a lander to the Moon's south pole with nine scientific instruments as a part of NASA's Artemis program.
Masten XL-1 lander will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and will land on the Moon's surface and operate for at least 12 days.
NASA's VIPER moon rover will fly to the moon aboard Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Astrobotic announced later that it had selected SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket as the mission launch vehicle
The VIPER rover will touchdown on the south pole of the moon and it will look for water ice at the surface and below (with a meter long drill). It can be controlled in almost real-time by NASA operators and it's the fist rover ever equipped with headlights for exploring dark shadowed areas.
The mission will have a duration of 100 days and the rover is expected to cover a total distance of 12Km.
ESA's ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin is headed to the red planet in 2024, on a mission to search for
potential signatures of past or present life, specifically by looking at environments where water could have flowed. It also will carry a drill that can penetrate up to 2 meters (6 feet) below the surface.
It will land in Oxia Planum, a plain in the Red Planet's northern hemisphere that shows lots of evidence of ancient water activity.
