follow on from the three MetOp satellites and there are plans to perform a short tandem mission between the Metop-SG-A1 and Metop-C satellites to cross calibration...

spacecraft in November 2021 The successor to the Metop satellites will be MetOp-SG, currently with the first MetOp SG-A satellite expected to be launched in 2025...

a Crew Dragon spacecraft, Wang and his all-civilian crew — Jannicke Mikkelsen, Eric Philips and Rabea Rogge — will be propelled into a polar orbit, a...

Soyuz MS-29 is a planned Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight to launch from Baikonur in March 2026 to the International Space Station. "NASA Astronaut Don...

Axiom Mission 4 (or Ax-4) is a private spaceflight to the International Space Station. The flight will be launched no earlier than Spring 2025 and will...

which had been met with some concerns in the astronaut office, stemming from NASA's history of never launching a mission without a test pilot or experienced...

NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 17th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission will transport four crew members – NASA...

Vast-1 is a planned private spaceflight to the Haven-1 space station, planned to launch no earlier than August 2025 by American aerospace company Vast...

Caldwell-Dyson from the United States and Maryna Vasileuskaya from Belarus, aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. The mission commander is Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky...

It will be operated by SpaceX under a Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. The spacecraft is a Cargo Dragon, serial number C208, which...

Soyuz MS-27 is a planned Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight to launch from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in March 2025 to the International Space...

Soyuz MS-28 is a planned Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight to launch from Baikonur in September 2025 to the International Space Station. Primary crew Backup...

Gaganyaan-2 Gaganyaan-3 Garatéa-L HTV-X1 IM-3 LOXSAT1 (February) MetOp-SG Series A MetOp-SG Series B MULA NISAR SMILE Space Rider SPARCS SPHEREx / PUNCH (February)...

mission is planned to demonstrate human spaceflight capability by sending a crew to an orbit of 400km of altitude for 7 days. Reporting in January 2020...

missions that will deploy SCOS-2000 include MetOp-SG (EUMETSAT Polar System Second Generation) and EarthCARE. It is a generic system, tailored for the specific...

Space Center is a rocket range and research centre located about 40 kilometers east of the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. It is a base for scientific...

Gaganyaan-2 Gaganyaan-3 Garatéa-L HTV-X1 IM-3 LOXSAT1 (February) MetOp-SG Series A MetOp-SG Series B MULA NISAR SMILE Space Rider SPARCS SPHEREx / PUNCH (February)...

launch planned in 2025. The mission is planned to last from eight hours to a day of flight. The environmental and life support systems, which includes...

prominent members of the Western European scientific community, met to discuss the foundation of a common Western European space agency. The meeting was attended...

supplied by Kineco Kaman Composites on 23 December 2023. The OMA is a conical structure with a diameter of 4 meters, composed of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymers...

probe's launch to 2031". Space.com. Retrieved 5 November 2022. "Metop series | Metop series launch timeline". EUMETSAT. 20 February 2024. Retrieved 29...

2024. It was operated by SpaceX under a Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. The spacecraft is a Cargo Dragon, serial number C209, which...

expressed an openness to flying Artemis III without a crewed landing. In this case, the mission may become a crewed visit to the Lunar Gateway. In April 2024...

August 2025, transporting members of a future ISS expedition. As this marks the first operational flight of Starliner, a Russian cosmonaut is not expected...

attempt, was scrubbed in 2021 by valve problems. It finally flew in 2022 and met all flight objectives. In August 2023, Boeing announced that the third flight—the...

kōngjiānzhàn), is a permanently crewed space station constructed by China and operated by China Manned Space Agency. Tiangong is a modular design, with...

Artemis II is a scheduled mission of the NASA-led Artemis program. It will use the second launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) and include the first...

identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. As a replacement for the original Cluster spacecraft which were lost in a launch failure in 1996, the...

MetOp satellites with AVHRR instruments will be succeeded by MetOp-SG satellites with a European MetImage instrument. Ocean temperature Baum, Bryan A...

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), ASELSAN and CTech Bilişim Teknolojileri A.Ş. TAI will be in charge of design and production of the satellite structure...