| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-11-04 23:18 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-11-05 08:18 (YAKT) | | Launch site | Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia | | Launch vehicle | Soyuz 2.1b / Fregat-M | | Launch provider | Roscosmos | | Payload | Ionosfera-M n°1 & 2 | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and deployment of Ionosphera satelites into Sun-Synchronous Orbit |

Livestreams

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| | Roscosmos | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmYGk_MV2-8 |

Stats

☑️ 4th Soyuz 2.1b launch this year, 91st overall

Payload info (NextSpaceflight)

Ionosfera-M n°1 & 2

Ionosfera is a constellation of four ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites developed by for Roscosmos for the project Ionozond.

The satellites will operate on circular sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), at altitude of about 800 km and located in two orbital planes of two satellites each.

The following science instruments are carried on the satellites:

• SPER/1 Plasma and energy radiation spectrometer
• SG/1 Gamma-ray spectrometer
• GALS/1 Galactic cosmic ray spectrometer / 1
• LAERTES On-board Ionosonde
• NBK/2 Low-frequency wave complex
• ESEP Ionospheric plasma energy spectrometer
• Ozonometer-TM Ozonometer
• MayaK On-board radio transmitters
• PES GPS-GLONASS device

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-11-04 06:48 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-11-04 15:48 (JST) | | Launch site | LA-Y2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. | | Launch vehicle | H3-22S | | Launch provider | Mitsubushi Heavy Industries / JAXA | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and deployment of Kirameki 3 into Geostationary Transfer Orbit |

Livestreams

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| | JAXA webcast (English) | | | JAXA webcast (Japanese) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4-8AoaSzbQ |

Stats

☑️ 3rd launch from LA-Y2 this year

☑️ 4th launch out of Japan this year

☑️ 3rd H3 launch this year, 4th overall

Payload info (NextSpaceflight)

Kirameki 3

DSN-3, also known as Kirameki 3, is a geostationary communications satellite to be operated by DSN Corporation, a subsidiary of SKY Perfect JSAT Group. Its payload is a pure X band and will be used for military communications by the Japanese military.

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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-10-29 20:27 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-04-25 20:59 (CST) | | Docking scheduled for (UTC) | | | Mission | Shenzhou 19 | | Launch site | Site 901 (SLS-1), Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China | | Vehicle | Long March 2F | | Commander | Cai Xuzhe 🇨🇳| | Operator | Song Lingdong 🇨🇳| | Flight Engineer | Wang Haoze 🇨🇳| | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and docking to the Tiangong space station |

Livestreams

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| | CGTN | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHBse3cxogI | | VideoFromSpace | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN_Q52hW_F0 | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/@Space-Affairs/streams | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tQBX-iEt-M |

Stats

☑️ 2nd crewed Chinese spaceflight this year

☑️ 14th crewed Chinese spaceflight overall

☑️ 19th flight of the Shenzhou program

Mission Details 🚀

Next Spaceflight

Shenzhou 19 (Chinese: 神舟十九号), the flight will mark the 14th Chinese crew spaceflight and the 19th flight of the Shenzhou program. The spacecraft will carry three astronauts on the 8h flight to the Chinese Space Station. The crew consists of Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haozhe.

| Target orbit | LEO | |

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| | Payload mass | 8100 kg |

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