Vandenberg Launch Schedule
Upcoming launches out of Vandenberg AFB, California
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-62
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD December, 2024
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SPHEREx & PUNCH
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD April, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Astrophysics
SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies. It also will search for water and organic molecules – essentials for life as we know it – in regions where stars are born from gas and dust, known as stellar nurseries, as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with SPHEREx. It consists of four suitcase-sized satellites, which will focus on the Sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona) and how it generates the solar wind. The spacecraft also will track coronal mass ejections – large eruptions of solar material that can drive large space weather events near Earth – to better understand their evolution and develop new techniques for predicting such eruptions.
Polar OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Sentinel-6B
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD November, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (launched November 2020) and Sentinel-6B make up the Sentinel-6 mission, also known as Jason Continuity of Service (Jason-CS), which is a partnership between NASA, NOAA, ESA, and EUMETSAT. This mission continues the long-term global sea surface height data record begun by first Jason satellites in 1992.
Low Earth Orbit Unknown F9 - Maiden Flight Landing Zone 4Falcon 9
Starlink Group 5-2
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 56 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
H-IIA 202
IGS Radar-7
Yoshinobu Launch Complex - Tanegashima, JapanThe IGS-Radar 7 is a Japanese radar reconnaissance satellite. The satellite is operated by the Cabinet Satellite Information Center. The satellite se…
Electron
Virginia is for Launch Lovers
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C) - Wallops Island, Virginia, USARideshare mission with 3 HawkEye 360 satellites and other payloads.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 2-4
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
GPS III SV06
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAGPS-IIIA (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known …
Falcon Heavy
USSF-67
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAUSSF-67 is a mission for the United States Space Force with two satellites, including the LDPE-3A rapid prototype platform hosting 5 USSF payloads.
Long March 2D
6 x Jilin-1, Qilu-2/3 and others
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaThis launch carries multiple payloads, including 6 new satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellite constellation and Qilu-2/3, …
Long March 2D
Yaogan 37 & Shiyan 22A/B
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaYaogan 37 is a Chinese military reconnaissance satellite. Shiyan 22A/B are 2 small Earth observation satellites built by SAST (SY-22A) & CAS (SY-22B).
Long March 2
APStar 6E
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaAPStar 6E is a small high-throughput communication satellite for Hong Kong based APT Satellite. It is based on the new DFH-3E small GEO platform deve…
RS1
Maiden Flight
Launch Pad 3C - Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USAThis is the first launch of RS1 launch vehicle developed and built by ABL Space Systems. This launch carries two satellites for OmniTeq.
