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Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB
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Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (Uncrewed)
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Aug. 3, 2021, 5:20 p.m.
Status: Go for Launch
Mission: Test Flight
This is the second uncrewed test flight for the Starliner spacecraft. Reflight of the OFT mission will allow Boeing to demonstrate readiness of the spacecraft and implement corrections to the problems which were found during the first OFT flight.
Low Earth Orbit
Atlas V 551 | STP-3
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Aug. 15, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Dedicated Rideshare
Rideshare mission with the STPSat-6 satellite and six secondary payloads for the US Air Force. STPSat-6 carries the NNSA's Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System-3 (SABRS-3) payload and NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) experiment.
Geostationary Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 30
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Aug. 15, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-23
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Aug. 18, 2021, 10 a.m.
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Resupply
SpaceX will launch the cargo variant of its Dragon 2 spacecraft on their 23rd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Dragon will be filled with supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.
Low Earth Orbit
Atlas V 511 | USSF-8
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Aug. 31, 2021, midnight
Terran 1 | Test Flight
Relativity Space | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Sept. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Inspiration4
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 15, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Human Exploration
Inspiration4 is the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit. Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, is donating the three seats alongside him aboard Dragon to individuals from the general public. The Inspiration4 crew will receive commercial astronaut training by SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, orbital mechanics, operating in microgravity, zero gravity, and other forms of stress testing. They will go through emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full mission simulations. The Crew Dragon spacecraft will remain in a 540 km high orbit for three days before reentering Earth's atmosphere for a soft water landing off the coast of Florida.
Low Earth Orbit Inspiration4 B1067 - Flight Proven ( ) Unknown
Falcon 9 Block 5 | X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V 401 | Lucy
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 16, 2021, 9:35 a.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX USCV-3 (NASA Crew Flight 3)
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 31, 2021, midnight
MOMO v1
Flight 6
Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan - Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, JapanDespite the MOMO unit's number, this is the seventh flight of the sounding rocket. Company aims to reach space for the third time.
Ariane 5 ECA
Star One D2 & Eutelsat Quantum
Ariane Launch Area 3 - Kourou, French GuianaStar One D2 is a 6.2 tons satellite built by Space Systems Loral for operator Star One, subsidiary of Brazilian Embratel. Its architecture is based o…
Electron
STP-27RM (It’s a Little Chile Up Here)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandA U.S. Air Force experimental spacecraft. It will demonstrate the use of a deployable sensor, where the sensor’s mass is a substantial fraction of th…
Long March 2D
Tianhui-1-04
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaTH 1 (Tianhui-1 = "Sky drawing") is a Chinese stereo-topographic mapping satellite operated by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The satellites …
Proton-M
MLM Nauka
200/39 (200L) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanNauka (which means "Science" in Russian), also known as Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), is a new module of the russian segment of the ISS. It w…
New Shepard
NS-16
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USAFirst crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
Long March 2
Yaogan-30-10
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaNOTE: Payload identity not confirmed. The Yaogan-30 is a series of military remote sensing satellites which are launched in triplets. The satellit…
SpaceShipTwo
VSS Unity 22
Spaceport America - Air launch to Suborbital flightPowered flight of VSS Unity on the first fully crewed flight. Including the founder Sir Richard Branson.
Long March 6
Zhongzi Group 02 (Ningxia-1-02)
Launch Complex 16 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaThe Ningxin-1 satellites (also called Zhongzi) are a series of Chinese commercial remote sensing satellite owned by Ningxia Jingui Information Techno…
Long March 3
Tianlian 1-05
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaTianlian 1, also known as Tian Lian 1, TL-1, and CTDRS-1 is a Chinese data tracking and relay communications satellite series. Based on the DFH-3 sat…
