October Launch Schedule 2020 - Woking Planetarium

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Here is your one-stop shop for space launches with our October launch schedule. This month sees 202 satellites launched, 1 cargo delivery and 3 astronauts making their way to the ISS. Read on to find out more!

Last updated: October 29^th 2020

Satellite Launches

LAUNCH SUCCESS 6^th: SpaceX launch the Starlink 12 mission, the 13^th addition of about 60 satellites to their broadband network at 12:29 BST. The launch site is Cape Canaveral in Florida. Scrubbed on September 17^th due to poor weather. Delayed from September 27^th. Scrubbed on September 28^th due to weather violations. Aborted on October 1^st at T-minus 18 seconds.

LAUNCH SUCCESS 11^th: China launch the Gaofen 13 Earth observation satellite from Xichang, China. It will launch aboard a Long March 3B rocket.

LAUNCH SUCCESS 18^th: Starlink V1.0-L13 launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 13:27 BST. This will be the 14^th addition of about 60 satellites to their broadband network. Delayed from September and October 10^th.

LAUNCH SUCCESS 24^th: Starlink V1.0-L14 launches the 15^th batch of about 60 satellites. The SpaceX mission launches aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and builds on their broadband network. The launch time is 15:31 GMT. Delayed from October 21^st.

LAUNCH SUCCESS 25^th: A Glonass K navigation satellite is launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. It will launch atop a Russian government Soyuz rocket. Delayed from August 6^th, late August and October 17^th.

LAUNCH SUCCESS 26^th: China launch 3 Yaogan 30-07 surveillance satellites from Xichang, China. The satellites will launch aboard a Long March 2C rocket at 15:19 GMT, alongside the Tianqi 6 data relay CubeSat.

LAUNCH SUCCESS 28^th: A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches from the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. It will contain the CE-SAT-2B Earth imaging microsatellite for Canon Electronics and nine SuperDove Earth imaging nanosatellites for Planet. Nicknamed ‘In Focus’, the launch window is 21:14 to 22:03 GMT. Delayed from October 20^th. Scrubbed on October 21^st.

Launches to the ISS

LAUNCH SUCCESS 3^rd: The 15^th Cygnus cargo freighter will launch on mission NG-14, the International Space Station’s 14^th operational cargo delivery flight. It will launch aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia at 02:16 BST. Delayed from August 31^st and September 7^th. Moved forward from October 2^nd. Delayed from September 29^th by poor weather forecast. Scrubbed on October 2^nd.

LAUNCH SUCCESS 14^th: A Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft will carry the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station, consisting of NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. It will launch aboard a Russian government Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 06:45 BST, and remain at the ISS for six months as an escape pod.