🚀 November Space Launch Calendar

Spaceflight activity accelerates worldwide as major space agencies and commercial launch providers kick off November with a packed manifest of missions spanning communications, Earth-observation, technology testing, and deep-space science. 🚀 SpaceX opened the month at Cape Canaveral with Bandwagon-4, carrying 18 international rideshare payloads, followed by two Starlink launches — one from Florida and another from Vandenberg, expanding its ever-growing broadband megaconstellation. 🇮🇳 ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization launched CMS-03 (GSAT-7R) aboard its heavy-lift LVM-3 vehicle from Sriharikota, deploying a dedicated communications satellite for the Indian Navy. A second LVM-3 mission, CMS-02 (GSAT-7R), follows shortly, reinforcing maritime and defense capabilities. 🇨🇳 China’s hashtag#CASC lifted off with a Long March 7A from Wenchang, sending an undisclosed payload toward geostationary orbit, highlighting the country’s steady cadence of advanced orbital missions. 🇫🇷 ARIANESPACE’s Ariane 6 continues operational rollout, launching Sentinel-1D from French Guiana to enhance Europe’s radar imaging capabilities as part of the Copernicus Earth-observation constellation. 🇯🇵🇳🇿 Rocket Lab flew its Electron mission “The Nation God Navigates” from New Zealand, deploying the Japanese QPS-SAR-14 radar satellite to strengthen high-resolution Earth-imaging services. 🇺🇸 United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s Atlas V prepared for a late-night launch of the ViaSat-3 broadband platform from Cape Canaveral, while Blue Origin eyes a mid-month flight of New Glenn carrying NASA’s twin-probe ESCAPADE Mars science mission — a key milestone for the new heavy-lift rocket. 🇨🇦 Canadian startup NordSpace plans the maiden suborbital test of its Taiga rocket from Newfoundland, marking another entrant in the global small-launcher race. Meanwhile, skywatchers turn their gaze upward as the Leonid meteor shower peaks Nov. 16–17, promising brilliant fireballs across the northern hemisphere night. Looking ahead, Roscosmos prepares a Soyuz MS-28 crew launch to the ISS later in the month, and SpaceX will support NASA-ESA ocean science with the Sentinel-6B mission from California.