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↗️ NEXT LAUNCH:

🛰️ Mission: Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
🚀 Launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5
🕒 Scheduled for: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 0:48:00 UTC 
Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🏗️ Launch Provider: SpaceX → [48 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA 🇺🇸

📡 Mission Description:
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

⏮️ JUST LAUNCHED: Launch in Flight

🛰️ Mission: Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32 [Resupply]
🕒 Launched on: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 8:15:42 UTC 
☄️ Status: The launch vehicle has lifted off from the launchpad.
🚀 Launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5
🏗️ Launch Provider: SpaceX → [47 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 🇺🇸

📺 Watch Live: 1

📡 Mission Description:
32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

↗️ NEXT LAUNCH:

🛰️ Mission: Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32
🚀 Launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5
🕒 Scheduled for: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 8:15:42 UTC 
Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🏗️ Launch Provider: SpaceX → [47 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 🇺🇸

📡 Mission Description:
32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

⏮️ JUST LAUNCHED: Launch in Flight

🛰️ Mission: NROL-145 [Government/Top Secret]
🕒 Launched on: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:29:00 UTC 
☄️ Status: The launch vehicle has lifted off from the launchpad.
🚀 Launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5
🏗️ Launch Provider: SpaceX → [46 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA 🇺🇸

📺 Watch Live: 1

📡 Mission Description:
Tenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

Vandenberg AFB with a 5:30am Easter wakeup call. US military launch, on the rocket of a man with a spazzy right arm attempting to sink the US government and make himself richer.

Launch Alert

"Vandenberg SFB Guardians and Airmen are scheduled to support a Falcon 9 launch of the NROL-145 mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E). Liftoff is targeted for 5:29 a.m. PT, Sunday, April 20. If needed, a backup opportunity is available on Monday, April 21 starting at 5:08 a.m. PT."

↗️ NEXT LAUNCH:

🛰️ Mission: NROL-145
🚀 Launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5
🕒 Scheduled for: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:29:00 UTC 
Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🏗️ Launch Provider: SpaceX → [46 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA 🇺🇸

📡 Mission Description:
Tenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

↗️ NEXT LAUNCH:

🛰️ Mission: Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32
🚀 Launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5
🕒 Scheduled for: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 8:15:34 UTC 
Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🏗️ Launch Provider: SpaceX → [47 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 🇺🇸

📡 Mission Description:
32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

⏮️ JUST LAUNCHED: Go for Launch

🛰️ Mission: Unknown Payload [Unknown]
🕒 Launched on: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:55:00 UTC 
☄️ Status: Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🚀 Launcher: Long March 4B
🏗️ Launch Provider: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation → [16 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Launch Complex 9 at Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China 🇨🇳

📡 Mission Description:
Details TBD.

↗️ NEXT LAUNCH:

🛰️ Mission: Unknown Payload
🚀 Launcher: Long March 4B
🕒 Scheduled for: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:55:00 UTC 
Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🏗️ Launch Provider: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation → [16 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Launch Complex 9 at Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China 🇨🇳

📡 Mission Description:
Details TBD.

⏮️ JUST LAUNCHED: Go for Launch

🛰️ Mission: NROL-174 [Government/Top Secret]
🕒 Launched on: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:33:00 UTC 
☄️ Status: Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🚀 Launcher: Minotaur IV
🏗️ Launch Provider: Northrop Grumman Space Systems → [1 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 8 at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA 🇺🇸

📡 Mission Description:
Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

Hey, it's a non-oligarch space launch in Santa Barbara, tomorrow, April 16th, 2025 from Vandenberg AFB:

" Launch Alert

Vandenberg SFB Guardians and Airmen are scheduled to support a Northrop Grumman Minotaur IV launch of the NROL-174 mission from Space Launch Complex 8 (SLC-8) no earlier than 12:33 p.m. PT, Wednesday, April 16.

This will be the first Minotaur IV to launch from Vandenberg SFB since 2011.

There is the possibility that residents of and visitors to Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties may hear one or more sonic booms during the launch, but what residents experience will depend on weather and other conditions."

⏮️ JUST LAUNCHED: Launch in Flight

🛰️ Mission: NS-31 [Tourism]
🕒 Launched on: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:30:00 UTC 
☄️ Status: The launch vehicle has lifted off from the launchpad.
🚀 Launcher: New Shepard
🏗️ Launch Provider: Blue Origin → [4 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch at Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA 🇺🇸

📺 Watch Live: 1

📡 Mission Description:
NS-31 is the 11th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.

↗️ NEXT LAUNCH:

🛰️ Mission: NROL-174
🚀 Launcher: Minotaur IV
🕒 Scheduled for: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:00:00 UTC 
Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🏗️ Launch Provider: Northrop Grumman Space Systems → [1 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 8 at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA 🇺🇸

📡 Mission Description:
Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

↗️ NEXT LAUNCH:

🛰️ Mission: NS-31
🚀 Launcher: New Shepard
🕒 Scheduled for: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:30:00 UTC 
Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🏗️ Launch Provider: Blue Origin → [4 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch at Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA 🇺🇸

📡 Mission Description:
NS-31 is the 11th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.

⏮️ JUST LAUNCHED: Launch in Flight

🛰️ Mission: Starlink Group 6-73 [Communications]
🕒 Launched on: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 4:00:10 UTC 
☄️ Status: The launch vehicle has lifted off from the launchpad.
🚀 Launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5
🏗️ Launch Provider: SpaceX → [45 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA 🇺🇸

📺 Watch Live: 1

📡 Mission Description:
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

↗️ NEXT LAUNCH:

🛰️ Mission: Starlink Group 6-73
🚀 Launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5
🕒 Scheduled for: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 1:59:00 UTC 
Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🏗️ Launch Provider: SpaceX → [45 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA 🇺🇸

📡 Mission Description:
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

⏮️ JUST LAUNCHED: Launch in Flight

🛰️ Mission: Starlink Group 12-17 [Communications]
🕒 Launched on: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 0:53:30 UTC 
☄️ Status: The launch vehicle has lifted off from the launchpad.
🚀 Launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5
🏗️ Launch Provider: SpaceX → [44 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 🇺🇸

📺 Watch Live: 1

📡 Mission Description:
A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.