SpaceX Falcon 9 is slated to carry consecutive Starlink missions in late March, deploying dozens of small internet satellites into low Earth orbit.
On March 20 SpaceX planned the Starlink 17-15 mission to launch 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites, with first stage booster B1081 attempting a landing on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You.
Two days later a Falcon 9 set for March 22 will loft 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites in the Starlink 10-62 flight, using booster 1078 on its 27th mission and targeting a landing on A Shortfall of Gravitas.
SpaceX listed further missions on March 24, March 26 and March 28, carrying batches of 25 or 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites, with boosters B1100, 1067 and B1093 each scheduled for recovery attempts on drone ships in the Pacific or Atlantic.
Other Upcoming Launches And International Flights
Rocket Lab planned an Electron mission named Eight Days a Week from Mahia, New Zealand, to place Synspective Strix synthetic aperture radar satellites into orbit, continuing a multi-launch procurement by the Japan based company.
Another Electron flight called Daughter of the Stars will carry the first two Celeste LEO PNT navigation demonstration satellites for the European Space Agency to a 510 kilometer circular orbit.
Isar Aerospace prepared a second Spectrum test flight titled Onward and Upward from Andøya Spaceport, carrying six small payloads and managed by Exolaunch after a prior delay for a pressurization valve issue.
Russia’s Roscosmos will launch a Soyuz 2.1a rocket with the Progress MS 33 cargo craft on March 22, with the vehicle expected to dock to the International Space Station at 9:35 a.m. EDT on March 24.
Separately, NASA’s Space Launch System is listed to carry the Artemis 2 crewed Orion mission for a lunar flyby, and United Launch Alliance plans Atlas 5 launches for Amazon Leo and Boeing’s Starliner missions.
