Manoeuvre in preparation for the Shenzhou 10 mission. Time is approximate and there is a slight possibility it occurred one revolution earlier - around 16:47 UTC.

Orbit changed from from 339 x 334 km to 333 x 341 km to set up the ground track. Location is be 4-5 degrees to the east of the one used for the Shenzhou 8 and 9 missions. Allows for the use of an R-bar approach from below rather than the previous missions' approach from behind.

Targets were in the Ronald Reagan Missile Test Area, Marshall Islands. Missile carried six dummy warheads. Most of the event, particularly midcourse and re-entry was within view of the STSS Demonstrator satellites USA 208 (2009-052A/35937) and USA 209 (2009-052B/35938): http://www.zarya.info/Tracking/STSSDemo/STSSDemoLaunch.php

Originally planned for April 10 but, April 6, US announced postponement because of diplomatic tensions concerning the Korean Peninsula. Postponed 24 hrs from May 21 due to a "range safety instrumentation issue" identified during the launch window.

Launch window was announced as 10:01 to 16:01 UTC. There was a second reserve day on May 23.

Military communications satellite for geosynchronous orbit.

Time is the opening of a 30 minute launch window. May 20 - 24 hr delay announced in order to replace a control box on the first stage engine..

WGS stands for Wideband Global SATCOM (an acronym of an acronym!). Block II WGS satellite, providing communications links for troops in the field. A major improvent in the Block II satellites is transmission of airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery at approximately three times the data rate available through the Block I satellites.

Crew to ISS - Fyodor Yurchikhin (Roscosmos), Karen Nyberg (NASA) and Luca Parmitano (ESA).

Aimed to follow the 'fast track', 6 hour route to the ISS.

Launch webcast from Tsenki (from about 18:30 UTC):
http://www.tsenki.com/en/broadcast/broadcast/

NASA TV Webcast (from 19:30 UTC):
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Docking with the ISS Rassvet port.

NASA TV coverage (from 01:30 UTC):
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Based on June 7 Launch

NOTAMs indicate airspace closures relevant to an orbital launch attempt, payload as yet undertermined. Notes: http://www.zarya.info/blog/?p=1058

Launch to geosynchronous transfer orbit of satellite to cover North America, Latin America, Europe and Atlantic Ocean the Atlantic Ocean region. It will provide direct-tohome broadcasts and VSat terminal services from 40°.5 west.

Supplies to ISS

Piloted mission aimed at docking with Tiangong 1. Mission will run for fifteen days and the crew will probably consist of two male, and one female astronaut.

Date is the first day of a seven-day-long window. The launch time is an estimate for that day only and is ±2 minutes.

As of mid-May, preparations seemed to be running slightly behind schedule for a June 7 launch. Alternatives based on standard practice: Jun 9 at 10:33 UTC and Jun 11 at 09:40 UTC.

Frequency: 2224.065 MHz.

Background notes:
http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/China/Shenzhou/10/Shenzhou10.php

Launch campaign:
http://www.zarya.info/blog/?p=852

The date is based on a June 7 launch.

Time is estimated and is ±10 minutes. In the event of a June 9 launch it is likely to be around 06:05 UTC.

Followed by destructive re-entry.

Satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, first of three satellites aimed at geosynchronous orbit for India's national system.

A further four satellites will be placed in highly elliptical orbit at 29° inclination to provide a constellation for complete regional coverage.

Docking with aft port of Zvezda.

Meteorological satellite, launcher may carry several secondary paylods.

Approximate date.

From Tiangong 1. The time is approximate.

Preceded by retro-fire and re-entry.

Date is based on June 7 launch. The time is estimated and is ±15 minutes.

Digital radio broadcasting satellite for geosynchronous transfer orbit. Intended location 115° west longitude.

Estimated date. Delayed from 2012 January then pushed back because of the Proton/SES-4 delays. Delayed further because of a problem deploying the SES 4 solar array that might have affected Sirius. Further affected by issues with the Briz-M rocket stage from 2012.

Frequencies: 1018.5 MHz, 1020.5 MHz (Briz-M rocket stage).

Russian remote sensing satellite. Also carrying instruments for measuring cosmic rays, and to monitor electromagnetic field variations as the precursors of earthquakes.

Sun synchronous orbit - 475km, 97.3 deg.

Postponed from 2012 Nov 30 for extended tests on the satellite's star sensors which are a new design. Launch was expected 2013 mid-February.

2013 Jan 17 - indefinite postponement was announced, apparently due to a dispute between Russia and Kazakhstan concering the ground track.

Quartet of communications satellite aimed at 8063 km, 288 minutes period equatorial orbit to provide links between ground stations lying in the range ±45° latitude. First of three launches.

Orbiting at one quarter the altitude of geosynchronous satellites, O3b aims to reduce the delays (latency) in transmission introduced the lengths of radio links. Notes on the choice of orbit: http://www.o3bnetworks.com/welcome-to-o3b/faqs

Date subject to confirmation.

33rd Russian EVA from ISS - Yurchukin and Misurkin will use the Pirs hatch.

NASA satellite - IRIS is equipped with an ultraviolet telescope and spectrograph to make detailed measurements of the flow of energy and plasma through the sun’s corona and the heliosphere.

Time is the opening of a five minute window and is the release time of Pegaus from the L-1011. Location approx 160 km NW of Vandenberg AFB, off Big Sur, California.

The date has slipped several times from 2012 December..

Three GLONASS-M navigation satellites. WIll be given numbers in the Cosmos series once in orbit.

Date subject to confirmation.

22nd US EVA from ISS. Cassidy and Parmitano will use the Quest airlock.

Satellite from the Canadian Space Agency - hybrid science/application payload. The science package will study solar-wind-driven plasma, radio and magnetic events in the lower ionosphere. Cassiope also carries a store and forward comms package specifically to move large digital data files around the world.

Launch window runs to 11:00 UTC.

Second generation meteorological satellite for sun-synchronous orbit. Fengyun-3C will be capable of producing three-dimensional analyses of weather systems.

The date is very approximate.

Launch to geosynchronous transfer orbit of satellite to provide broadcast, VSat and broadband services to Europe. Location: 28°.2 east.

Approximate date.

23rd US EVA from ISS. Cassidy and Parmitano will use the Quest airlock.

Notes:
http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Soyuz/ASTP/ASTPMain.php

MUOS (Mobile User Objective System) - narrowband tactical comsat for geosynchronous orbit. Eventual replacement for the UFO satellites, designed to work with highly portable receiver/transmitter equipment.

Carries a mobile communications payload in L-band that will augment Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service for communications across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. satellite has a 12-metre aperture aerial reflector. Alphasat I-XL also carries technology demonstration payloads for the European Space Agency.

Approximate date.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon. Michael Collins remained in orbit.

Dual launch to geosynchronous transfer orbit.

Alphasat - high-power telecom satellite created through a public–private partnership between ESA and UK operator Inmarsat to cover Europe, the Middle-East and parts of Asia. Expected location - 25° east.

Insat-3D - meteorological satellite, is configured with advanced meteorological payloads - a 6 Channel Imager, 19 Channel Sounder along with Data Relay Transponder and Satellite Aided Search & Rescue payloads - developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation. Expected location - 82° east.

Followed by destructive re-entry.

Triplet of of store/dump message relay satellites for the civilian system.

Possible initial frequencies for the Gonetsall three satellites:
245.000 MHz & 388.6875 MHz

Supplies to ISS. Will fly the six-hour fast track route.

Indian comsat aimed at 74° east longitude. Replacement for GSat 3.

Approximate date,

Lunar landing mission

Japanese supply vehicle to the ISS. Kounotori translates to "white stork" (seen as a carrier of joyful things) in English.

The time is approximate and will be refined nearer the day. The date itself is also subject to confirmation. The potential launch period runs to Sep 30.

Capture using ISS remote manipulator and attachment to Harmony node.

Precise date to be confirmed.

34th Russian EVA from ISS - Yurchukin and Misurkin will use the Pirs hatch.

Launch to geosynchronous transfer orbit of commercial comsat to provide the continental USA digital audio radio broadcast directly to cars, homes and portable radios. Planned location - 115°.2 west.

Approximate date.

Military communications satellite for geosynchronous orbit.

WGS stands for Wideband Global SATCOM (an acronym of an acronym!). Block II WGS satellite, providing communications links for troops in the field. A major improvent in the Block II satellites is transmission of airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery at approximately three times the data rate available through the Block I satellites.

Approximate date.

Verification mission for new standard satellite design. Carries extreme ultraviolet telescope to observe the planets and measure their interaction with plasma generated bu Jupiters moon Io and investigate the mechanism of how the atmosphere of the terrestrial panets escapes into space.

First flight for the Epsilon launch vehicle, aimed at 950 x 1150 km orbit at 31° inclination.

The date is very approximate.

35th Russian EVA from ISS - Yurchukin and Misurkin will use the Pirs hatch.

Payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, probably a KH-11 reconsat to be placed in sun-synchronous orbit.

Objective is to chart a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way Galaxy and provide positional and radial velocity measurements of about one billion stars. Will also aim to include detection and orbital classification of extra-solar planetary systems.

Web site:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=26

Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer - NASA lunar orbiting mission, to characterize the atmosphere and lunar dust environment. Orbit will be 50 km, circular, equatorial - fully retrograde (180° inclination). LADEE will take 30 days to reach the Moon.

The mission is set to last for 100 days: http://science.nasa.gov/missions/ladee/

Undocking using ISS remote manipulator and then release into independent flight for later destructive re-entry above the southern Pacific Ocean.

Carrying [Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy. Will land in Khazakhstan.

Demonstration and test flight of Cygnus advanced maneuvering spacecraft that will be used for cargo delivery services under a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) agreement. Cygnus will carry a small payload and will rendezvous with the ISS. It will be docked with the ISS after being captured by the Remote Manipulator arm.

The pressurized cargo vessel is based the on the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) carried as Shuttle cargo and the avionics have been developed for other satellites.

Orbital Sciences Corporation plans to use Cygnus to perform ISS resupply flights under the Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) contract.

Date is subject to change dependent on the actual launch date of HTV-4 Japanese supply wehicle to ISS.

USAF satellite for secure communications, aimed at GEO. Commercial launch by United Launch Alliance.

Date is a place holder, as of 2013 May 20 it is "TBA".

For related item, see: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/AdvancedExtremelyHighFrequencyEHF/index.html

Cluster of second generation LEO store and forward messaging satellites that include an AIS (Automatic InformationSystem) receiver for collecting messages from shipping. AIS is an international standard system.

It will be the first launch of an upgraded (v1.1) version of Falcon 9.

Approximate date.

ORS-3 is a name of a mission to launch a large number of satellites simultaneously. It is described as an “Enabler” mission for the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office of the Department of Defense. The orbit will be 500 km circular at 40°.5 inclination.

The date is approximate.

The largest payload is STPSat 3 which carries five separate packages of instruments and a retro-rocket that will drop it from orbit at the end ot its life (up to 25 years):
1 - iMESA-R (Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight), a U.S. Air Force Academy mission designed to measure plasma densities and energies,
2 - J-CORE (Joint Component Research), a space phenomenology mission sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) /EO Countermeasures Technology Branch (RYMW) & Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC),
3 - SSU (Strip Sensor Unit), an AFRL Directed Energy (RD) experiment to provide risk reduction through on-orbit testing and operation of a sensor assembly,
4 - SWATS (Small Wind and Temperature Spectrometer), a Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) mission to provide in-situ measurements of the neutral and plasma environment to characterize the Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere,
5 - TCTE (TSI Calibration Transfer Experiment) , a NASA/NOAA mission to collect high accuracy, high precision measurements of Total Solar Irradiance to monitor changes in solar irradiance incident at the top the Earth's atmosphere with TCTE instrument provided by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

Also carried will be NASA's ELaNa (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites) IV package and further cubesats to a total of 19 satellites. The ELaNa payloads are:

Lunar Orbiter/Lander CubeSat - 1U cubesat, testing software and an imager for an eventual lunar orbiter/lander cubesat that will be sent to the Moon via a launch to geosynchronous orbit, from Vermont Technical College and the University of Vermont,

Black Knight 1 - 1U cubesat from West Point Military Academy under the Space Test Program,

SPA-1 Trailblazer - 1U cubesat to provide proof-of-concept for an Air Force Sponsored bus technology called Space Plug-and-play Architecture (SPA) from University of New Mexico,

TetherSat - a pair of 1.5U cubesats built by the Naval Postgraduate School under the Space Test Program - a tether between them will carry a Direct Current and use interaction with the local magnetic field to provide propulsion in order to raise the orbit by 500 kilometres,

TJ3Sat - 1U cubesat from Thomas Jefferson High School of Alexandria, Virginia that will be used as a broadcast satellite at amateur frequencies, using a phonetic voice synthesizer that converts strings of text to voice,

DragonSat-1 - 1U cubesat from Drexel Space Systems Laboratory of Drexel University carrying a camera, a magnetometer, an accelerometer and seven temperature sensors,

Copper-Cube (Close Orbit Propulsion Plume and Elemental Recognition - Cube) - 1U cubesat from Parks College of Engineering, Aviation & Technology of St Louis University, to be used for infrared imaging.

Details of the remaining payloads to follow:

Crew to ISS - Oleg Kotov (Roscosmos), Sergei Ryazansky (Roscosmos), Michael Hopkins (NASA).

Aimed to follow the 'fast track', 6 hour route to the ISS.

Egyptian remote sensing satellite for sun-synchronous orbit. Launch was put on hold 2011 following all contact being lost with EgyptSat 1.

Date is approximate and may change significantly.

Quartet of communications satellite aimed at 8063 km, 288 minutes period equatorial orbit to provide links between ground stations lying in the range ±45° latitude. Second of three launches.

Orbiting at one quarter the altitude of geosynchronous satellites, O3b aims to reduce the delays (latency) in transmission introduced the lengths of radio links. Notes on the choice of orbit: http://www.o3bnetworks.com/welcome-to-o3b/faqs

Date is very approximate.

Constellation of three satellites in three different polar orbits between 400 and 550 km altitude.

The objective is to survey the Earth's geomagnetic field, and measure changes over time, in order to improving understanding the Earth's interior and the physics of the magnetosphere.

Approximate date.

Mission notes:
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Operations/SEM27Z8L6VE_0.html
http://www.esa.int/esaLP/ESA3QZJE43D_LPswarm_0.html

Chinese lunar lander including a small roving vehicle.

Approximate date, representing the opening of a two week window The launch time is an estimate and is ±30 min.

Notes: http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Sputnik/Sputnik.php

Fifth Block 2F, Generation 2 GPS Navsat.

Approximate date.

Background information:
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/gps/bkgd_gps2f_0611.pdf

Followed by four days of free flight.

Follows retro-fire. Any surviving fragments will fall in the southern Pacific Ocean.

First pair, of four satellites, as the start of an operational navigation satellite system similar to GPS, Beidou and GLONASS.

The date is approximate.

36th Russian EVA from ISS - Yurchikhin and Ryazanskiy will use the Pirs hatch.

Approximate date and event is awaiting confirmation.

China-Brazil Earth Resouces Satellite. Aimed at 770 km sun-synchronous orbit with 26 day ground track repeat. Local time of descending node - 10:30. Anticipated lifetime - 3 years.

The launch time is an estimate. Date is approximate and has slipped several times from early-2011. Set for 2013 June then slipped further.

Mission notes:
http://calval.cr.usgs.gov/JACIE_files/JACIE11/Presentations/WedAM/920_Liporace_JACIE_11.025.pdf

Student built multi-spectral imaging satellite from the University of Hawaii. Aimed at orbit 450 x 525 km, 97°.6 inclination, sun-synchronous with descending node near 09:00 local time.

The launch will also carry a 'swarm' of cubesats including eight 1.5U payloads under NASA's Edison Demonstration of Smallsat Networks (EDSN) - a demonstrator of formation flying in orbit. This batch will carry radiation sensors.

More satellites will fill a further 9U of cubesat space.

Approximate date, the time is an estimate and is ±30 minutes..

First mission for Super Strypi, known also as Spaceborne Payload Assist Rocket - Kauai (SPARK). The rocket was developed under the Low Earth Orbiting Nanosatellite Integrated Defense Autonomous System (LEONIDAS) programme, funded by the Operationally Responsive Space Office (ORS) of the United States Department of Defense.

Communications including maritime services, covering Asia, Australia, the China Sea and the Indian Ocean. Location 125° east?

Date is very approximate and launch may be delayed into 2014.

Crew to ISS - Mikhail Tyurin (Roscosmos), Richard Mastracchio (NASA), Koichi Wakata (JAXA).

Aimed to follow the 'fast track', 6 hour route to the ISS.

Will carry a cargo under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract, and make an approach to the International Space Station for capture and docking using the Space Station Remote Manipulator System.

The launch will also carry several cubesats.

The date is approximate, delayed from spring 2013, may slip further.

Capture by the ISS manipulator arm to be berthed with the lower docking unit of the Harmony node of the ISS.

Cargo delivery mission under the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) agreement.

The pressurized cargo vessel is based the on the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) carried as Shuttle cargo, and the avionics have been developed for other satellites.

Approximate date.

NASA Mars orbiter for atmosphere studies, specifically to determine the role that loss of atmospheric gas to space has played in changing the Martian climate through time.

The time shown is for this day only. The launch window extends to December 7.

Fifth Block 2F, Generation 2 GPS Navsat.

Approximate date.

Supplies to ISS. Will fly the six-hour fast track route.

Demonstration vehicle to develop the technologies required for design, planning, management and operations of an interplanetary mission.

Objective at Mars is to look for signs that life might have existed there and to research how Mars might have lost its liquid water.

Informal name - Mangalyaan 1.

Mars arrival due 2014 September.