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Launch Schedule 2012

Date Payload Launcher Launch Site Notes
January Cygnus CRS / OSC-01 Taurus II    
January Dragon C6 (ISS Flight 3) Falcon IX Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA  
January – March Express-AM5 Proton Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan commercial communications satellite
January – March GAIA Soyuz 2 CSG Kourou, French Guiana  
January – March Intelsat 21 Proton Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan commercial communications satellite
3 February NuSTAR (SMEX-11) Pegasus XL Reagan Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands astronomical observatory
13 April TDRS-K Atlas V    
April Metop B Soyuz ST    
April Soyuz TMA-04M ISS 30S Soyuz FG Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan manned transport vessel to the International Space Station
31 May RBSP (Radiation Belt Storm Probes) Atlas V    
June CRS-02 Taurus II    
June LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission) Atlas V    
June Soyuz TMA-05M ISS 31S Soyuz FG Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan manned transport vessel to the International Space Station
August Dragon C7 (ISS Flight 4) Falcon IX Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA  
October – December Express-AM6 Proton Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan commercial communications satellite
October Soyuz TMA-06M ISS 32S Soyuz FG Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan manned transport vessel to the International Space Station
November Soyuz TMA-07M ISS 33S Soyuz FG Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan manned transport vessel to the International Space Station
December AMOS Falcon IX    
December Iris (SMEX-12) Small    
??? AEHF F-3 Atlas 5 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA US military communications satellite
??? Anik G1 Proton Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan commercial communications satellite
??? AsiaSat Zenit 3SL Sea Launch's Odyssey platform in the Pacific Ocean commercial communications satellite
??? ATV 4 Ariane 5 CSG Kourou, French Guiana unmanned supply ship to ISS
??? AzerSat 2   Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan commercial communications satellite
??? Chandrayaan 2 GSLV 2 Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India Indian lunar lander
??? DragonLab 1 Falcon IX Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA  
??? Geospace ITSP Taurus    
??? Lotos 14F145 Soyuz 2.1b Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia Russian electronic intelligence satellite
??? Luna-Glob (10 HSP, 2PL, Polar Station)     Russian lunar lander
??? Meteor-M N3 Soyuz 2.1b / Fregat   Russian remote sensing satellite
??? Nimiq 6 Proton Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan commercial communications satellite
??? Reszonans     astrophysics observatory
??? SAOCOM 1A Falcon IX Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA  
??? SBIRS-GEO 2 Atlas 5    
??? Spacecom Falcon IX    
??? Spektr-RG Soyuz 2 / Fregat Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan X ray telescope
??? SSETI ESEO   CSG Kourou, French Guiana  
??? World Space Observatory Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) Zenit -2SB / Fregat    
??? Yamal 401 Ariane 5ECA CSG Kourou, French Guiana commercial communications satellite
 



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