SpaceX launch activity includes multiple Falcon 9 missions deploying Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit, according to the manifest. One Falcon 9 is slated to carry 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites while another will loft 29 of the same satellite variant. The manifest shows the first stages on these missions are assigned to boosters B1097 and 1080, with B1097 on its seventh flight and 1080 on its 25th flight.
The listing indicates recovery plans for both missions, with the B1097 first stage scheduled to return to the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. The 1080 first stage is scheduled to target a landing on the drone ship A Shortfall Of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. Both flights form part of a concentrated cadence of Starlink deployments by SpaceX as reflected in the launch schedule.
The launch entries also record precise mission footprints, including launch sites at Vandenberg Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for the two Falcon 9 flights. The schedule notes launch windows for each mission and lists each mission update, but it does not alter the manifest description that both flights will place Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit.
Other Planned Missions And Vehicle Tests
Beyond SpaceX, the manifest highlights a range of planned orbital missions from other providers, many involving repeat test flights or demonstration payloads. Firefly Aerospace plans a return to flight of its Alpha rocket, dubbed Stairway to Seven, carrying a test demo payload and exercising systems that will be part of a Block 2 configuration on a later flight, the schedule shows.
Japan’s Space One will fly its four-stage KAIROS on a third flight with five customer satellites aboard, including TerraSpace’s TATARA-1 and NutSat-3 from Taiwan Space Center and National Taiwan University. Isar Aerospace will fly a second test of its Spectrum rocket with five CubeSats and an experiment called Let it Go, and Exolaunch will manage payload integration and deployment for that mission.
The manifest also lists a Blue Origin New Glenn mission carrying AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 satellite, with the company not yet stating if it will attempt booster recovery. NASA’s Space Launch System will fly an Orion spacecraft on Artemis 2 with four astronauts aboard, and the schedule records that the capsule Integrity will perform a lunar flyby and splash down in the Pacific Ocean. United Launch Alliance entries show an Atlas 5 will launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on an uncrewed cargo flight, and a Vulcan Centaur will carry Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser cargo vehicle in a later demonstration. Finally, a Falcon Heavy is scheduled to launch NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft to explore Titan, and the listing includes program lifecycle costs and the value awarded to SpaceX for launch services for that mission.
