Florida Launch Schedule

Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Lima

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD June, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Atlas V 551 | Project Kuiper (Atlas V #4)

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD June, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Project Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude.

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas V 551 | Project Kuiper (Atlas V #3)

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD June, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Project Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | 4x Astranis MicroGEO

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD June, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Four Astranis MicroGEO communications satellite inserted in a custom geostationary orbit, from where they conduct on-orbit maneuvers to reach their individual slots.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Polaris Dawn

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD June, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

First mission of the privately funded Polaris program. The goal of this mission, lasting up to five days in orbit, is to fly higher than previous Dragon missions, perform the first-ever commercial EVA with SpaceX-designed spacesuits, orbit through portions of the Van Allen radiation belt, conduct medical research, and test laser-based Starlink communications in space.

Low Earth Orbit Unknown F9 - Maiden Flight Unknown
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Türksat 6A

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD July, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Türksat 6A is Turkey's first domestically manufactured geostationary communications satellite. It is to reside in 42° East orbital slot, providing services to customers in Turkey, as well as in Europe, Northern coast of Africa, Middle East, India and Indonesia.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD July, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-9

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD August, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

SpaceX Crew-9 is the ninth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Low Earth Orbit Unknown F9 - Maiden Flight Landing Zone 1
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-21

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD August, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

This is the 21st flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 20th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Low Earth Orbit
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New Glenn | EscaPADE (Maiden flight)

Blue Origin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD September, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), a dual-spacecraft mission to study ion and sputtered escape from Mars. The spacecrafts' scientific goals are to understand the processes controlling the structure of Mars' hybrid magnetosphere and how it guides ion flows; understand how energy and momentum are transported from the solar wind through Mars' magnetosphere; and understand the processes controlling the flow of energy and matter into and out of the collisional atmosphere.

Mars Orbit
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Soyuz 2.1b
Success
12 hours, 18 minutes ago
Kosmos 2576
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Russian military payload of unknown purposes.


Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 15 hours ago
Starlink Group 8-7
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 8 hours ago
Starlink Group 6-58
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 4C
Success
5 days, 9 hours ago
Shiyan 23
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Satellite officially named for "space environment detection" purposes, exact details unknown.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week ago
Starlink Group 8-2
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 3
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
ZHTW 1-01
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Zhihui Tianwang 1-01 are 2 experimental Medium Earth Orbit communication satellites in a collaboration between Tsinghua University, SAST and the Shan…


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
Starlink Group 6-56
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 6C
Success
1 week, 3 days ago
Maiden Flight
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Carried 4 Earth observation satellites to orbit: * Haiwangxing-01, 239 kg X-band SAR satellite built by SAST for Zhihui Space Tech * Zhixing-1C, X-…


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 3 days ago
Starlink Group 6-57
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 5
Success
2 weeks ago
Chang'e 6
101 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Chang'e 6/CE-6 is scheduled to launch in 2024 to return samples from the Far Side of the Moon (near southern edge of the Apollo Basin) for the first …