Formation of satellites, each named after a latin-american dance, continuously monitoring the solar wind and its effects on the magnetosphere.

Original group of satellites lost 1996 through explosion of the first Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Replacements launched in pairs - 2000 July 16 and Aug 9 respectively, by Soyuz LV from Baikonur.

Spacetrack:
2000-041A/26410 - Salsa (Cluster II FM6)
2000-041B/26411 - Samba (Cluster II FM7)
2000-045A/26463 - Rumba (Cluster II FM5)
2000-045B/26464 - Tango (Cluster II FM8)

See: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Operations/SEMP00BO3DG_0.html

Successful launch of three GLONASS-M navigation satellites. They separated from the Proton rocket one at a time over the period 04:26 - 05:12 UTC.

Precise launch time: 00:53:50 UTC

There are now 26 fully-operable GLONASS satellites in orbit. Twenty four are needed to provide global service but two existing satellites and one of the new ones are on-orbit spares. The system requires 18 satellites for continuous navigation over Russia.

Spacetrack:
2010-041A/37137 - Cosmos 2464
2010-041B/37138 - Cosmos 2465
2010-041C/37139 - Cosmos 2466

Approximate time.

Chinese national communications and broadcasting satellite for geosynchronous orbit at 125 deg east. Replacement for Chinasat 5C.

Launch may occur one day earlier in UTC as the date is in Beijing Time (UTC + 8 hours).

Store/dump communications - one satellite for the civilian system and two for the military/government system.

Supplies to ISS.

Frequencies: 121.75 MHz (TORU if used), 166.000 MHz (+/-128 kHz), 922.763 MHz.

Approximate time.

Explanation of ISS radio frequencies: http://www.zarya.info/Frequencies/FrequenciesISS.php

Docking port to be advised.

Navigation satellite providing positioning service to Japan in areas where the topography works against GPS reception. Inclined, eccentric orbit provides long 'stay time' above Japan.

59 minute launch window.

Originally scheduled for 2008 Aug 2. On Jun 23 - JAXA announced that there was a quality concern raised by the manufacturer of the reaction wheels used for stabilsation and orientation and the launch was postponed.

See: http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f18/index_e.html

Pre-planned test launch. Time will probably be announced after the event.

Launch window for government or military reconnaissance satellite.

Sixty minute launch window.

Location to be advised.

Space-Based Space Surveillance spacecraft, aimed at 540km sun-synchronous orbit.

See: http://www.ballaerospace.com/page.jsp?page=189

Approximate date - 14 minute launch window.

Launch originally planned for 2010 April then put back to 2010 Jul with an eventual choice of Jul 8 as the date.

Launch the further postponed pending resolution of a software programming error, affecting all Minotaur launch vehicles, discovered in the vehicle for the September STP launch.

Lunar exploration - as of 2009 November, scheduled for October 2010.

Upgrade of the backup vehicle for Chang'e 1.

Likely frequency: 2234.52 MHz.

Prototype Dragon spacecraft on a three-orbit test flight followed by re-entry, and recovery by parachute.

Estimated date.

Moved back several times from spring 2010 in tandem with the Falcon 9 (Spacetrack: 2010-026A/36595) test launch timetable. Date subject to further change as the rocket/spacecraft stack is built at CCAFS.

Missile early warning satellite for HEO. Will receive a Cosmos designation when in orbit.

Date very approximate.

Crew to ISS - Scott Kelly (Commander Expedition 26), Aleksandr Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka.

Approximate time.

Frequencies: 121.75, 166.0, 922.763 MHz.

Explanation of ISS radio frequencies: http://www.zarya.info/Frequencies/FrequenciesISS.php

Indian communications satellite for geosynchronous orbit at 82 deg east longitude.

Approximate date.

Docking port to be advised.

Estimated time.

Direct radio broadcasting to US from geosynchronous orbit at 82.5 deg west.

Approximate Date - launch may occur as early as Oct 5.

Indian remote sensing satellite for sun-synchronous orbit. Also carries two small auxiliary satellites - X-Sat and YouthSat.

Approximate date.

Approximate date.

Skripochka, Yurchikhin

LEO comsats. Launch to be conducted by Arianespace.

Approximate date - payload details unknown but probably aimed at GEO.

Dual launch to geosynchronous transfer orbit of Eutelsat W3B and Japanese BSAT 3b high definition direct broadcasting satellites.

Intended geosynchronous locations: Eutelsat W3B - 16 deg east, BSat 3b - 110 deg east.

Planned launch Sep 15 postponed as of Aug 16 due to manufacturing issue with Eutelsat W3B.

Date and time are estimated.

Followed by destructive re-entry.

Supplies to ISS.

Approximate time.

Frequencies: 121.75 MHz (TORU if used), 166.000 MHz (+/-128 kHz), 922.763 MHz.

Explanation of ISS radio frequencies: http://www.zarya.info/Frequencies/FrequenciesISS.php

Docking port to be advised.

Estimated time.

Radar imaging.

Thirteen minute launch window.

Military/government remote sensing satellite. Rasad means 'Observation' in English.

This may be the satellite referred to as AUT SAT, designed by students of the Amir-Kabir University of Technology. Construction of AUT SAT began 2010 Jan.

Originally scheduled for period Aug 24-30, a postponement was announced on Aug 16 - the announcement referred to launch by the end of the current Iranian year (2011 Mar 20), and hinted at delays due to testing: http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8905251362

Both date and time are estimates.

Frequency: 435 MHz or 465.000 MHz?

To ISS with supplies and equipment.

Probable delay announced 2010 Jun 23 and confirmed July 1 - mission slipped from Sep 16 to give engineers more time to work on payloads planning.

Approximate time - middle of ten minute launch window.

Frequencies: 259.7 MHz, 2217.5 MHz

Estimated time.

Imaging, using two telescopes with digital color cameras and an infrared spectrometer.

26th Russian EVA from ISS.

Date and ime to be confirmed

Date and time to be confirmed

Geodetic satellite with payload including radar altimeter, laser retro reflectors plus GLONASS and GPS receivers.

Approximate date.

GPS Navsat.

Approximate date.

27th Russian EVA from ISS.

STPSat 2, FASTSAT (Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite), FASTRAC (two satellites for the University of Texas), the USAF FalconSat 5, and OREOS (NASA CubeSat).

160 minute launch window.

Orbit - 650km circular, 72° inclination.

see: http://www.ballaerospace.com/page.jsp?page=126

Delayed from 2010 May 28 then delayed from Sep1, then from Sep 5 (as a knock-on of software issue affecting the SBSS launch).

Earth Energy Balance studies - NASA satellite.

Launch vehicle will carry three other small satellites - Explorer 1 Prime for Montana State University (measuring the radiation belts as discovered by the original Explorer 1), Hermes for the University of Colorado, and KySat-1 for the Kentucky Space Consortium.

Time is near the middle of a ten minute launch window.

See: http://glory.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Comsat for geosynchronous orbit at 9 deg east longitude. To provide broadband internet services.

Followed by re-entry and landing.

Vehicle named Johannes Kepler - after the German astronomer and mathematician.

Previous ATV launch - Jules Verne, 2008 March.

Supplies to ISS plus disposal of rubbish/trash. Approximate date

Space Based Infrared System - missile detection satellite for GEO. One SBIRS payload is already in orbit on board the multi-tasking USA-200 (2008-010A/32706).

Date has slipped many times and is very likely to slip further - currently listed as "No Earlier Than".

Approximate date - moved back from "the middle of 2010".

Astrophysics research.

Experimental reconnaissance and communications satellite for the US Air Force.

Date very approximate.

Arrival is Dec 7 Japan Standard Time (GMT + 9hrs) but the precise time has not been announced so it may be Dec 6 UTC.

Small satellite for battlefield reconnaissance - sensors are based on those being demonstrated by TacSat-3 (2009-028A/35001 launched 2009 May 19). ORS-1 stands for "Operational Responsive Space-1".

Date may slip - currently listed a "No Earlier Than".

Crew to ISS - Kondratyev (Expedition 27 Commander), Coleman, Nespoli.

Approximate time. Delayed from Sep 9.

Frequencies: 121.75, 166.0, 922.763 MHz.

Navigation satellite. GLONASS-K is a new version of the vehicle.

First GLONASS not to have been manifested as part of a triple payload on a Proton rocket, first GLONASS to be launched from Plesetsk. Russia decided to shift GLONASS launches to Plesetsk for strategic reasons to reduce reliance on other countries (Baikonur is in Kazakhstan).

Approximate Date.

Mobile broadband communications from geosynchronous orbit - 101.3 deg west.

Commercial launch provided by International Launch Services.

Jul 22 - announced Aug 17 launch would not take place after satellite manufacturer Boeing started troubleshooting a technical problem.

Date is approximate - could be as late as 2011 January.

Remote sensing/meteorology.

Also several small sub-satellites.

Approximate Date.

Rassvet docking port.

Estimated time.

Rear port of Zvezda.

Delayed from Dec 15 due to conflict with Soyuz arrival.

Followed by destructive re-entry.

Navigation satellites.

Approximate Date.

Followed by destructive re-entry.

Russian remote sensing satellite.

Sun synchronous orbit - 475km, 97.3 deg.

Approximate date.

GPS Navsat.

This date WILL slip.

Possibly a KH-ll reconnaissance satellite. Commercial launch by United Launch Alliance.

This will be the heaviest vehicle ever to lift off from Vandenberg.

Time will be announced nearer to the date.

Supplies to ISS

Followed by destructive re-entry.

Supplies to ISS.

Delayed from 2010 Dec 27.

Frequencies: 121.75 MHz (TORU if used), 166.000 MHz (+/-128 kHz), 922.763 MHz.

Explanation of ISS radio frequencies: http://www.zarya.info/Frequencies/FrequenciesISS.php

Docking port to be advised.

Estimated time.

Second orbital mission for an operational Dragon spacecraft. It is intended to make a demonstration approach to within 10 kilometres of the International Space Station.

Date is approximate and is likely to slip.

LEO Comsats

Approximate date

Multispectral Remote sensing satellite with secondary payload of Baumanets 2 student-built satellite.

Sun-synchronous orbit - 510km, 98 deg.

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Commercial comsat for geosynchronous orbit at 180 deg west longitude.

Approximate date.

Approximate date.

Skripochka, Yurchikhin

Approximate date.

Skripochka, Kondratiev

Second of a group of three AEHF satellites that will replace the current Milstar constellation, providing secure communications to the US military.

Commercial launch into geosynchronous transfer orbit by United Launch Alliance.

Approximate Date.

ISS mission.

Probable delay announced 2010 Jun 23 and confirmed Jul 1 - mission slipped from 2010 Nov because of the STS-133 delay and a further need to avoid launch conflicts with other ISS missions.

Estimated time.

Approximate date.

Earth observation. First Soyuz launch from French Guiana

Commercial comsat for geosynchronous orbit at 115 deg west longitude.

Approximate date.