VIREON

VIREON
Manufacturer	AAC Clyde Space
Production
Operational	2
Maiden launch	30 March 2026, 11:02 UTC
Related spacecraft
Launch vehicle	Falcon 9

Manufacturer

AAC Clyde Space

Operational2

Maiden launch30 March 2026, 11:02 UTC

Launch vehicleFalcon 9

VIREON is a British constellation of Earth observation satellites developed by the Glasgow-based company AAC Clyde Space with the support of the UK Space Agency (UKSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA).^[1]^[2]^[3] VIREON's goal is to provide near-real time images monitoring crops, forests, and water resources for increasing productivity and reducing environmental impact of agriculture, forestry, and land management.^[4]^[5]^[6] The first satellites of the constellation, two 16U CubeSats, were launched to low Earth orbit in March 2026 on the Transporter-16 mission of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.^[4]^[7]^[8]

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v t e ← 2025 Orbital launches in 2026 2027 →
January	CSG-3 Starlink G6-88 (29 satellites) Starlink G6-96 (29 satellites) Twilight (Pandora, SPARCS, BlackCAT, etc.) PSLV-C62 (EOS-N1, KID, etc.)† Starlink G6-97 (29 satellites) Yaogan-50 01 SatNet LEO Group 18 (9 satellites) Starlink G6-98 (29 satellites) Alsat-3A Ceres-1S Y7 (Tianqi 37, 38, 39, 40) Shijian-32† Ceres-2† NROL-105 Starlink G6-100 (29 satellites) SatNet LEO Group 19 (9 satellites) Starlink G17-30 (25 satellites) "The Cosmos Will See You Now" (2 Open Cosmos satellites) Starlink G17-20 (25 satellites) GPS-III 09 Ellison Onizuka Starlink G17-19 (25 satellites) Neonsat-1A Starlink G6-101 (29 satellites) Alsat-3B
February	Starlink G17-32 (25 satellites) Kosmos 2600-2608 Chinese reusable experimental spacecraft Starlink G17-33 (25 satellites) Starlink G17-34 (25 satellites) Jielong 3 (PRSC-EO2, 6 satellites) Elektro-L №5 USSF-87 (GSSAP-7 & 8) Amazon Leo LE-01 (32 satellites) Crew-12 Starlink G17-13 (24 satellites) Starlink G6-103 (29 satellites) Starlink G10-36 (29 satellites) Starlink G17-25 (25 satellites) Starlink G6-104 (28 satellites) Starlink G6-110 (29 satellites) Starlink G17-26 (25 satellites) Starlink G6-108 (29 satellites)
March	Starlink G17-23 (25 satellites) Starlink G10-41 (29 satellites) Starlink G10-40 (29 satellites) KAIROS F3† BlackSky Global 34 Starlink G17-18 (25 satellites) EchoStar XXV Alpha Block 1 FLTA007 Guowang (9 satellites) Shiyan 30C, D Starlink G17-31 (25 satellites) Starlink G10-48 (29 satellites) Yaogan 50-02 Kuaizhou 11 Y7 Starlink G17-24 (25 satellites) Starlink G10-46 (29 satellites) Starlink G10-33 (29 satellites) StriX-6 Starlink G17-15 (25 satellites) Progress MS-33 Starlink G10-62 (29 satellites) Jielong 3 Y10 Rassvet Flight 3 (16 satellites) SuperView Neo-2 05, 06 Starlink G17-17 (25 satellites) Shiyan-33 Celeste IOD-1, IOD-2 Kinetica 2 (Qingzhou) Transporter-16 (Acadia-10, BRO 19, ERMIS, GARAI B, ION SCV Astounding Alexandra, IRIDE-MS1-EAGLET2 9-16, OptiSat, PeakSat, Vigoride-7, VIREON 1 & 2, W-Series 6, etc.)
April	Artemis II Tacheles ATENEA K-RadCube SWC-1 Starlink G10-58 (29 satellites) Tianlong-3† Meridian-M №11 Amazon Leo LA-05 (29 satellites) Starlink G17-35 (25 satellites) Minotaur IV (STPSat-7 & 10 rideshares) Qianfan (18 satellites) Guowang (5 satellites) Starlink G17-21 (25 satellites) Jielong 3 Y11 Cygnus NG-24 Kinetica 1 Y12 (8 satellites) Starlink G10-24 (29 satellites) Starlink G17-27 (25 satellites) Kosmos Daqi-2 BlueBird 7† Starlink G17-22 (25 satellites) GPS III-10 Hedy Lamarr "Kakushin Rising" (9 satellites) Starlink G17-14 (25 satellites) Kosmos SatNet test (4 satellites) PRSC-EO3 Progress MS-34 Starlink G17-16 (25 satellites)
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).

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