Navid is an imaging satellite with 400m resolution built by Sharif University of Technology. The mass is 50kg, and the intended initial orbit was said to be 250 x 375 km at 55° inclination. Design may include an onboard thruster to circularise the orbit at 375 km.

Launch time is estimated from SpaceTrack element sets and is ±1 minute.

The full name is "Navid-e-Elm va Sana't" which means 'Promise of Science and Industry'.

Frequency: 435 MHz?

Orbit notes: http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Launches/Launches.php?year=2012#005

NORAD: 2012-005A/38075

Geosynchronous orbitsatellite for China's navigation satellite system, known as "Compass". The satellite will also provides time and messaging services for the Asia-Pacific region.

Date is approximate.

Date is within an approximately ten-day launch window opening Feb 9.

Slipped from January 26. Time is is an estimate for the beginning of a two hour launch slot.

Payloads:

Laser Relativity Satellite - LaReS, an Italian Space Agency (ASI) passive, - it has a high density, being made of tungsten, and has 92 corner cube laser reflectors. Its purpose is to study aspects of the theory of relativity.

ALMASat-1 - University of Bologna's ALma MAter SATellite, a demonstration mission of a standard, 12.5 kg, satellite bus for future missions.

Seven 1U Cubesats are carried as secondary payloads and launched from three P-POD payload dispensers:

Xatcobeo - a collaboration of the University of Vigo and INTA, Spain to demonstrate software-defined radio and solar panel deployment,

Robusta - produced by the University of Montpellier 2, France to test and evaluate radiation effects (low dose rate) on bipolar transistor electronic components,

e-st@r - produced by Politecnico di Torino, Italy as demonstration of an active 3-axis Attitude Determination and Control system including an inertial measurement unit,

Goliat - from the University of Bucharest, Romania for imaging of the Earth surface using a digital camera and in-situ measurement of radiation dose and micrometeoroid flux,

PW-Sat - from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland to test a deployable atmospheric drag augmentation device for de-orbiting CubeSats,

MaSat-1 - from Budapest University of Technology and Economics to demonstrate various spacecraft avionics, including a power conditioning system, transceiver and on-board data handling,

UniCubeSat GG - from Universitá di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ to study gravity gradient stabilisation using symettrically deployed booms, each boom is fitted with a solar panel, generation

First launch of a new lightweight Arianespace launcher on a qualification mission performed under the responsibility of the European Space Agency.

Commercial comsat to provide services to Africa, Europe and the Middle East from 22° west longitude.

The date is approximate.

Postponed 24 hrs from 2011 Dec 26 for "technical reasons". Further postponed to replace faulty control components in the fourth (Briz-M) stage of the launch vehicle - taken back to assembly building Dec 27.

Planned new launch attempt Jan 28, 19:23 UTC was postponed indefinitely as of Jan 27 when the launch vehicle was again removed from the pad, explanation awaited.

Commercial launch by International Launch Services.

Early warning satellite for GEO.

Approximate date.

30th Russian EVA from ISS, to be undertaken by Kononenko and Shkaplerov.

Expected Duration 6 hrs. Work includes moving equipment on the outisde of the station and installing/collecting material on mounted on the outside of the station a long-term exposure experiments.

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

Time is the opening of a 45 minute launch window.

Classified payload, will probably be given a number in the USA series after launch.

Possibilities for the satellite include it being part of the NOSS programme, or an SDS payload.

The date is approximate.

Launch to 685 km sun-synchronous orbit.

Delayed from 2011 December and 2012 February - new date awaited.

Payloads:

GCOM-W1 (Global Change Observation Mission-Water) is the first of a series of satellites to study water circulation systems in the Earth's atmosphere. They will contribute to the wide- field of climate change studies. It will join the French/US "A Train" of co-orbiting Earth studies sateliites, currently consisting of AQUA, Cloudsat, CALIPSO and Aura. "Shizuku" means 'drop of dew'.

Kompsat 3 (KOrea Multi-Purpose SATellite) is a a Japanese built Earth observation satellite for South Korea, specific uses being for GIS (Geographical Information Systems), environmental, agricultural and oceanographic monitoring. There may also be a miltary/strategic imaging role.

SDS-4 (Small Demonstration Satellite) - cubesat carrying several technology demonstration experiments and including an experiemnt to monitor AIS (Automatic Information System) messages transmitted from ships at sea.

Horyu 2 is a cubesat built by Kyusyu Institute of Technology to test an experimental high-voltage solar array system and observe spacecraft charging effects caused by thefrom it.

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

Approximate date. Delayed from 2012 January then pushed back because of the Proton/SES-4 delays. May now slip further.

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

Will use Zvezda thrusters.

Probably to be launched towards a target area 2,500 km away at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site near Kwajalein atoll.

Postponed from 2011 Sep becauseof an investigation of an earlier failed test when the missile was destroyed by Western Range officials while it was over the Pacific Ocean, part way along it's flight path.

The launch is an operational test to determine the weapon system's reliability and accuracy.

Astronomical satellite for launch into 650-km, near-equatorial orbit at 8° inclination. The expected operational lifetime is five years.

AstroSat will carry five astronomy payloads for simultaneous multi-band observations:

1 - Twin 40-cm Ultraviolet Imaging Telescopes (UVIT) covering Far-UV to optical bands,

2 - A triplet of Large Area Xenon Proportional Counters (LAXPC) covering medium energy X-rays,

3 - A Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) with conical foil mirrors and X-ray CCD detector,

4 - A Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride coded-mask imager (CZTI),

5 - A Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM) to scan the available sky once every six hours in order to locate transient X-ray sources.

Approximate date, subject refinement.

Commercial comsat to serve government and commercial customers in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia with HDTV and broadband internet access from 52°.e east longitude alongside Yahsat 1A.

Approximate date.

Commercial launch by International Launch Services.

Comsat for geosynchronous orbit. Expected location - 72° east.

Commercial launch by ILS. Approximate date.

Frequencies 1018.5 MHz and 1020.5 MHz (Briz-M)

Followed by destructive re-entry.

European vehicle carrying supplies to the ISS and will then be used to dispose of rubbish/trash. It is named after Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi who was also a driving force in the foundation of ESRO, a predecessor of ESA.

The previous ATV mission by the Johannes Kepler craft was 2011 February.

Date and time subject to confirmation/change.

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is a NASA Explorer mission using a focusing hard X-ray telescope to study high energy X-rays from astronomical sources.

Moved back from Feb 3.

Multiple satellite launch to sun-synchronous orbit - 510km, 98° inclination:

Canopus-Vulcan 1 - monitoring of man-made and natural disasters including weather phenomena, mapping, pollution measurement, study of phenomena associated with earthquakes, monitoring of land use and coastal resources

Zond-PP (MKA-FKI 1) - to monitor ocean salinity and temperature, as well as humidity of the land surface, based on the 'Carat' standard satellite bus

Baumanets 2 - student built satellite including a Franco-Russian radiation effects monitoring instrument (Baumanets 1 was lost in a launch failure 2006 July)

ADS-1B - Canadian satellite for monitoring shipping movements

BelKA 2 - Belarusian remote sensing satellite for mapping, and monitoring of natural resources (BelKA 1 was lost in the same launch failure as Baumanets 1)

TET-1 - German satellite conducting space-technology experiments, design life one year

Approximate date, subject to delay.

Radar Imaging Satellite. Orbit - 536 km, sun-synchronous with 25 day ground track repeat.

Approximate date and approximate time.

RiSat 2 (2009-019A/34807) was launched 2009 April 20 under an accelerated development programme and had a reconnaissance mission.

Docking with Zvezda aft port.

Date and time subject to confirmation/change.

Second orbital mission for an operational Dragon spacecraft. Expected to dock with the ISS after three days and then undock for recovery after a docked phase lasting about 12 days.

This is an 'aimed for' date but may slip into the first week of April.

Announced Jan 17 that launch was postponed from Feb 8 to give SpaceX more time to for preparation and troubleshooting.

Originally intended to make a demonstration approach to within 10 kilometres of the International Space Station but 2011 Dec 9, NASA announced that it would be allowed to make an approach to the International Space Station. It will be captured for docking to Harmony's downward-facing port using the Space Station Remote Manipulator System. Missionplan is "....subject to final safety reviews, testing and verification" by NASA on behalf of the International Space Station Partners prior to agreement from the Partners.

Other objectives for the mission are to test approach, fly-by and abort modes for the spacecraft - as included in the original Dragon COTS-2 mission. The berthing, and transportation of a cargo, is part of the Dragon COTS 3 mission - originally scheduled for later in 2012.

SpaceX, the Dragon spacecraft designer and operator also has a contract to launch Orbcomm's second generation LEO comsat series with 18 satellites in total. Two of them will be carried into orbit on this mission. Second generation Orbcomm satellites are equipped with upgraded communications equipment and also offer a location system for shipping using AIS (Automatic Identification Service) radio transmissions.

Re-scheduled from Nov 30 as a knock-on of the Progress launch failure 2011 Aug 24. Later slipped from Jan 12.

Second of six planned trajectory corrections.

Payload for US National Reconnaissance Office. Probably a new Navy Ocean Surveillance System (NOSS) satellite pair.

Postponed from March 16 as a result of the Soyuz TMA-04M launch delay.

Third Block 2F, Generation 2 GPS Navsat.

Will launch no earlier than this date.

Test flight of launch vehicle prior to operations using the Cygnus resupply craft for use with the ISS under the COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) and CRS (Commercial Resupply Services) contracts with NASA.

Delayed from 2011 December and 2012 February 28

Approximate date - to be confirmed and subject to further delay.

Imaging satellite with 80m resolution, mass 90 kilograms and aimed at 200 x 500 kilometer orbit. Mass is 500 kg and projected operational lifetime is 18 months.

The date is approximate, from an unreliable Iranian press source and is subject to further significant change including cancellation or disappearance from history in the event of a launch failure.

This entry should be treated with caution.

Followed by destructive re-entry.

Date to be confirmed.

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

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

Approximate date.

Russian remote sensing satellite.

Sun synchronous orbit - 475km, 97.3 deg.

Delayed from 2011 September.

Date is very approximate.

Space-Based Infra Red System missile launch detection satellite for geosynchronous orbit. It carries a combination of scanning and staring sensors with greater sensitivity than previous satellite types. The scanning sensor will provide a wide area view in search of missile launches and natural terrestrial events, while the staring sensor will be used to observe areas of particular interest with enhanced sensitivity

The vehicle is part of a developing satellite constellation. Two payloads were included on satellites in Molniya-type HEO with apogees above the northern hemisphere (USA 184 and USA 200). USA 230 (SBIRS GEO 1) was launched towards geosynchronous orbit 2011 May.

Date is very approximate.

The date represents a likely time, based on the decay of Tiangong 1's orbit since Shenzhou 8 departed.

NOTE: An orientation change executed by Tiangong 2011 Dec 15 slowed its rate of decay, pushing the potential Shenzhou 9 date back from an earlier April 1 estimate. A further slowing of the rate Jan 12 made it look as though this date should be pushed back even further - to early-June.

Aimed at docking with Tiangong 1 module. It may carry a crew - the decision is dependent on how the success of Shenzhou 8 is measured.

More detailed explanation of the launch date calculation:
http://www.zarya.info/Diaries//China/Shenzhou/Tiangong1.php#sz9

Frequency: 2224.065 MHz

Crew to ISS - Gennadi Padalka, Joseph Acaba, Sergei Revin

Postponed from April 1 due to the Descent Module being damaged during routine testing January 26. The mission is to use the vehicle being built for the Soyuz TMA-05M flight.

Followed by re-entry and landing.

After orbiting Vesta for nine months, the plan is to depart for Ceres and arrive there in 2015.

European Space Agency operational metsat for sun-synchronous orbit.

Crew to ISS - Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide

Date subject to confirmation, may be delayed a knock-on of the Soyuz TMA-04M delay.

Date may slip.

US Government or military satellite for National Reconnaissance Office.

Approximate date.

Multipurpose Laboratory Module for the ISS, including the European Robotic Arm (ERA). It is the final ISS module and will be attached at the downward-facing port of Zvezda following de-commissioning and disposal of the Pirs module.

Nauka was constructed using the backup Zvezda module.

Approximate date - could be pushed back by several months.

Payload for US National Reconnaissance Office probably aimed at geosynchronous orbit.

Approximate date.

Japanese supply vehicle to the ISS. Rescheduled several times, the latest being from May 10 to allow continued testing of the launch vehicle - delayed by the earthquake of 2011.

Kounotori translates to "white stork" (seen as a carrier of joyful things) in english.

Demonstration/test flight of Cygnus advanced maneuvering spacecraft to demonstrate cargo delivery services under a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) agreement. Cygnus will rendezvous, but not dock with, the ISS.

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 an estimate and subject to slippage while the mission is being planned - already pushed back from mid-February and May.

Third orbital mission for an operational Dragon spacecraft. It will carry a cargo under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract, and make a an approach to the International Space Station for capture and docking using the Space Station Remote Manipulator System.

If there issues with he preceding COTS 2 mission then some of the test programme will be repeated.

SpaceX, the Dragon spacecraft designer and operator also has a contract to launch Orbcomm's second generation LEO comsat series with 18 satellites in total. Up to six of them may be carried into orbit on this mission. Second generation Orbcomm satellites are equipped with upgraded communications equipment and also offer a location system for shipping using AIS (Automatic Identification Service) radio transmissions.

The date is very approximate, it has slipped and is very likely to slip further.

Second launch of the new-type GLONASS-K.

GLONASS-K also carries radio receiving equipment for the COSPAS-SARSAT international search and rescue system.

Approximate date.

To be captured by the ISS manipulator arm and berthed at the Harmony node.

Launch of a cluster of second generation LEO comsats into 920 kilometre circular orbit at 52°.0 inclination.

The satellite dispenser has two vehicles on its upper section to be released 98.6 minutes after lift off. Four satellites in the lower section will be released simultaneously at 100.3 minutes.

The Fregat stage fires twice, once at about 10 minutes into the mission and again 50 minutes later to circularise the orbit. After satellite separation, it will finish its mission with retrofire followed by re-entry and destruction through frictional heating.

Approximate date.

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

The objective is to survey of 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.

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

Target for the Curiosity rover is Gale crater.