Florida Launch Schedule

Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB

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Vulcan VC2S | Peregrine lunar lander, Kuipersat-1 & 2 (Maiden flight)

United Launch Alliance | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD May, 2023

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Maiden flight of ULA's Vulcan launch vehicle carrying the Peregrine lunar lander developed by Astrobotic Technology. The first two satellites of Amazon's Project Kuiper constellation are onboard this launch as rideshare payloads.

Lunar Orbit

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | BADR-8

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD May, 2023

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite built by Airbus Defense and Space and based on the Eurostar Neo platform for Arabsat.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Türksat 6A

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD May, 2023

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 Heavy | Jupiter-3

SpaceX | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD May, 2023

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite built by Maxar Technologies for EchoStar. With a capacity of 500 Gbps, its purpose is to relieve broadband capacity constraints in the Americas.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-28

SpaceX | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD June, 2023

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

28th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 8 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD June, 2023

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Transporter 8 mission is a 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 | Nova-C IM-1

SpaceX | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD June, 2023

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

This is the first flight of Nova-C lander which was developed by Intuitive Machines. This mission is a part of CLPS program and carries various NASA payloads in support of Artemis lunar program, as well as multiple commercial payloads.

Lunar Orbit

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Atlas V | USSF-51

United Launch Alliance | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD June, 2023

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Classified payload for the US Space Force.

Unknown

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C IM-2

SpaceX | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD June, 2023

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer.

Lunar Orbit

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Galaxy 37

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD June, 2023

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Galaxy 37 is a geostationary communications satellite manufactured by Maxar and operated by Intelsat.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

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