List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2024
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This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2024, including launches planned for 2024 without a specific launch date.
Dedicated SmallSat Rideshare mission to sun-synchronous orbit, designated Transporter-11. The ELaNa-53 mission, consisting of the Dione cubesat, will be launched on this flight.[41] An Alba Cluster mission is scheduled to be launched on this flight.[65]
Maiden flight of Ariane 6. Seven satellites and four on-board experiments are baselined on this launch.[73] The two CURIE cubesats will be launched as a single spacecraft and will separate in orbit.[74] The ELaNa-48 mission, consisting of the two CURIE cubesats, will be launched on this flight.[41]
Second Galileo launch on a Falcon 9 and overall thirteenth launch of Galileo satellites, carrying two satellites. Originally planned to launch on Soyuz ST-B, but scrapped due to geopolitical factors. Then moved to Ariane 6, which was also scrapped due to delays. Europe contracted SpaceX to launch the two pairs aboard Falcon 9. Falcon 9 First stage Booster will be expended in this mission.
UK Pathfinder launch. First orbital rocket launch from the United Kingdom. The Moog Small Launch Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (SL-OMV) can deploy up to six CubeSats.
ECO TEST VS02. Third of three test launches from Pad 1 at Whalers Way. Launch vehicle previously tested under the name "Hapith I".[411] Expected apogee: 200km (120mi).
Test flight of a reusable suborbital tourism rocket.
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↑ Hendrickx, Bart (19 December 2022). "The secret payloads of Russia's Glonass navigation satellites". The Space Review. Retrieved 20 December 2022. The long-delayed flight of the first Glonass-K2 (serial number 13L) is now set for the first quarter of next year, with a second satellite (nr. 14L) expected to follow later in 2023.
"NASA Selects Intuitive Machines to Deliver 4 Lunar Payloads in 2024". Intuitive Machines. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021. The second node in Khonstellation will deliver the company's data services satellite (Khon2) to a L2 orbit, adding to the first node (Khon1) delivered to a frozen lunar orbit during Intuitive Machines' IM-2 south pole mission in fourth quarter of 2022.
↑ "NASA Selects Intuitive Machines to Deliver 4 Lunar Payloads in 2024". Intuitive Machines. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021. The second node in Khonstellation will deliver the company's data services satellite (Khon2) to a L2 orbit, adding to the first node (Khon1) delivered to a frozen lunar orbit during Intuitive Machines' IM-2 south pole mission in fourth quarter of 2022.
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↑ Ahn, Joon-ha (8 April 2021). "Next-generation medium satellite (Compact Advanced Satellite 500-1) up in the sky". Hankook. Retrieved 19 July 2021. [I]n the second stage of the CAS500 development project, CAS500-3 for space science and technology verification (the Ministry of Science and ICT), CAS500-4 for wide-area agricultural and forestry observation (the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Rural Development Administration, and the Korea Forest Service), and CAS500-5 for the observation of water resources (the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Environment) will be launched, one by one.
↑ Henry, Caleb (7 January 2020). "Arianespace could launch record 22 missions in 2020". SpaceNews. Retrieved 8 January 2020. The maiden flight of the more powerful Ariane 64 configuration, which has four strap-on boosters, is expected to occur by the end of 2021 with a ViaSat-3 geostationary satellite.
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↑ Hendrickx, Bart (19 December 2022). "The secret payloads of Russia's Glonass navigation satellites". The Space Review. Retrieved 20 December 2022. Around thirty of the upgraded Glonass-K2 satellites (beginning with serial nr. 24L) are expected to be launched beginning in 2024, some flying solo on Soyuz-2 rockets, others in pairs on Angara-A5 rockets.
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