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Jan 22, 2020

NRO, the U.S. spy satellite agency, preps for first dedicated launch on foreign soil

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Coming up in the next week: Launches by Soyuz, Falcon 9 and H-2A rockets from spaceports in Russia, Florida and Japan.

See our list of confirmed launch dates for upcoming missions:


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: [email protected].

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

Latest changes:

Jan. 22: Adding date and window for Atlas 5/AEHF 6; Adding date for Minotaur 4/NROL-129 Jan. 21: Adding date and time for Soyuz/Meridian M; Adding date and time for Falcon 9/Starlink 3; Adding Electron/NROL-151; Falcon 9/Starlink 4 delayed; Adding Falcon 9/Starlink 5; Adding date and time for Ariane 5/JCSAT 17 & GEO-Kompsat 2B; Falcon 9/Crew Dragon Demo 2 delayed; Adding Long March 5B/Test Flight; Updating configuration for Atlas 5/NROL-101 Jan. 20: Falcon 9/Starlink 3 delayed Jan. 17: Falcon 9/Starlink 3 delayed Jan. 14: Adding date and time for Kuaizhou 1A/GS-SparkSat-03; Adding date and time for Falcon 9/Starlink 3.

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