The Franco-German climate mission MERLIN (Methane Remote Sensing Lidar Mission) is expected to measure methane levels in Earth’s atmosphere from 2023 with unprecedented accuracy.
The launch is planned for 2021, from Kourou as a co-passenger or auxiliary passenger on a Ariane, Soyuz or a Vega European launcher.
Nano-JASMINE will be launched in the near future (around 2021).
Taranis is the 1st satellite designed to observe luminous, radiative and electromagnetic phenomena occurring at altitudes of 20 to 100 km over thunderstorms. Scheduled to be ready for launch at the end of 2019, it is eagerly awaited by the world’s scientists.
SPACE-SI selects Arianespace to launch the NEMO-HD microsat on VEGAArianespace has been chosen by the Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies (SPACE-SI) to launch the NEMO-HD microsat on the Vega launch vehicle as part of the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept (POC) flight in 2019.
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Paris and Berlin have agreed to launch a future addition to the Composante Spatiale Optique (CSO) high-resolution military reconnaissance satellite network on Ariane 6. The satellite, CSO 3, is scheduled to enter service in 2021 to improve revisit times offered by the first two platforms.
In the field of space observation, the two Helios 2 military satellites, launched in 2004 and 2009, and the two Pléiades satellites launched in 2011 and 2012, enabling observation by day and night (infrared), will be replaced by three CSO satellites (Optical Space Component). These three satellites will bring significant improvements in terms of accuracy, quality, revisit time compared to Helios satellites. With a theoretical lifespan of around ten years, these satellites, which enable very high-resolution image acquisition, will be launched in 2018 (mid-December), in 2020, and then in 2021. Intelligence in the space field will be completely renewed. And all the renewal programs of these intelligence capabilities will be launched in 2023.In telecommunications, the Ministry of the Armed Forces is preparing the Syracuse 4 program, which is a secure communications system. It must allow the maintenance of the permanence of the communications on the national territory and with priority zones of interest, as well as with the buildings with the sea, at any time (peace, crises or major catastrophe). The program includes the construction of two satellites that will replace, by 2021-2023, the Syracuse 3A and Syracuse 3B satellites currently in orbit
Key milestone for Euclid mission, now ready for final assembly... Immediately after launch, scheduled for June 2022, the ground segment will be ready to take over and start the operations to perform the groundbreaking sky survey. ...
Looks like both Falcon-eye satellites should launch in 2019. That is the plan of Avio. four Vegas in 2019, + Vega-C at the end-> page 34 and 13http://avio-data.teleborsa.it/2018%2fInvestor-Presentation-December-2018_20181202_081341.pdf
THEOS-2 joins the long list of satellites in our backlog built by our customer and partner Airbus Defence and Space, along with the VD-20 satellites, the first commercial contract signed for Vega-C last year.
rumor: launch of PRISMA in March 2019
MOSCOW, December 22 - RIA News. In the next two years, seven Russian Soyuz launch vehicles are to be launched from the Kourou space center in French Guiana, which should put 115 satellites in orbit, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti."In 2019, four launches of the Soyuz with Kuru are planned, and in 2020 there will be three launches," he said.According to him, the Soyuz with six British OneWeb communication satellites will go into space in February, with four British O3b in April, in October with Italian CSG-1 satellite and European CHEOPS, and in November with 34 OneWeb devices.In 2020, launches are planned in January and October - 34 OneWeb satellites each time, as well as in May with the French CSO-2.
TBD 2024 - CSO 3 - Ariane 62 - Kourou ELA-4
In the medium term, the major deadlines for the program will be the launch of the CSO-2 and CSO-3 satellites, planned for May 2020 and October 2021.