This schedule lists future take-offs according to dates set by the space agencies and launch companies. Data is therefore given for information purposes only and may change. Last update: 2012-02-03 20:29

Date: 2012-02-13
Time (UTC): 10:00
Mission: LARES
Launcher: Vega
Launch site: CSG
Comments:

LARES : Italien scientific satellite (Einstein's relativity theory vérification).
European launcher Vega (maiden flight) from the Centre Spatial Guyanais.

 
Date: 2012-02-16
Time (UTC): 22:46
Mission: MUOS 1
Launcher: Atlas 5
Launch site: Cape Canaveral
Comments:

MUOS 1: Multi User Objective Sysytem - military telecommunications satellite for the US Navy.
United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 launcher (Lockheed Martin).
SLC-41 launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

 
Date: 2012-02-20
Time (UTC): Unknown
Mission: Sirius FM6
Launcher: Proton
Launch site: Baikonur
Comments:

Sirius FM6: radio broadcasting by satellite (Sirius XM Radio).
International Launch Services' Proton (Khrunichev) launch vehicle from the Baikonur spaceport.

 
Date: 2012-03-09
Time (UTC): 09:41
Mission: ATV 3
Launcher: Ariane 5
Launch site: CSG
Comments:

ATV 3 "Edoardo Amaldi" : European automated cargo of the European Space Agency (ESA) to the International Space Station.
Arianespace's Ariane 5 launch vehicle (EADS Astrium).
Launch pad ELA-3 at the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG).
A live webcast from Arianespace will start 20 mn before the launch.

 
Date: 2012-03-20
Time (UTC): Unknown
Mission: Dragon C2
Launcher: Falcon 9
Launch site: Cape Canaveral
Comments:

Dragon C2: automated capsule second orbital flight (SpaceX). Berthing with the ISS.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle (third flight).
SLC-40 launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Date set as "Not Earlier Than".

 
Date: 2012-04-25
Time (UTC): Unknown
Mission: Progress 47P
Launcher: Soyuz
Launch site: Baikonur
Comments:

Progress 47P cargo spacecraft to the ISS.
Soyuz launcher (Roscosmos - Russian space agency).
Baikonur cosmodrome.

 

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