Florida Launch Schedule
Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB
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Falcon Heavy | GOES-U
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD April, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S Series (GOES-S) is the second of the next generation of geostationary weather satellites. The four satellites of the series will provide advanced imaging with increased spatial resolution and faster coverage for more accurate forecasts, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and improved monitoring of solar activity.
Geostationary Transfer OrbitFalcon Heavy | Gateway PPE & HALO
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD May, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Human Exploration
The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) are the foundational elements of NASA's lunar-orbiting space station "Gateway". The PPE is a 60-kilowatt class solar electric propulsion spacecraft that also will provide power, high-speed communications, attitude control and the capability to move the Gateway to different lunar orbits. The HALO is the pressurized living quarters where astronauts who visit the Gateway, often on their way to the Moon, will work. It will provide command and control and serve as the docking hub for the outpost. HALO will support science investigations, distribute power, provide communications for visiting vehicles and lunar surface expeditions, and supplement the life support systems aboard Orion, NASA’s spacecraft that will deliver Artemis astronauts to the Gateway.
Lunar Orbit
SLS Block 1 | Artemis-2
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD May, 2024
Atlas V N22 | Starliner-2
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD September, 2024
Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD October, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Planetary Science
Europa Clipper is the first dedicated mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. Mission is developed by NASA and comprises of an orbiter spacecraft, which, while in orbit around Jupiter, will perform numerous flybys over Europa. Europa Clipper payload suit included high-resolution cameras and spectrometers for imaging Europa's surface and thin atmosphere, an ice-penetrating radar to search for subsurface water, and a magnetometer and gravity measurements to measure the moon's magnetic field and unlock clues about its ocean and deep interior.
Heliocentric N/A
Terran R | Mars Lander
Relativity Space | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD October, 2024
Falcon Heavy | VIPER
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD November, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Lunar Exploration
NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is a mobile robot that will go to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice that could eventually be harvested to sustain human exploration on the Moon, Mars — and beyond. VIPER represents the first resource mapping mission on another celestial body.
Lunar Orbit
Vulcan | GPS III SV07
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Vulcan | USSF-23
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 9-11
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 3-3
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 46 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 6
Jilin-1 High Resolution 03D-09, 35 to 43 & Infrared A01 to 06
Launch Complex 16 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China16 new Earth observation satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-26
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 52 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Khayyam & rideshare
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanKhayyam, also known as Project 505, is a Russian built Earth observation satellite for Iran. The satellite is built by VNIIEM and NPK Barl on a curre…
Ceres-1
Taijing-1-01 & 02
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaTwo commercial Earth observation satellites built by Minospace.
SSLV
SSLV Demo 1
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Sriharikota, Republic of IndiaFirst test flight of Indian SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle).
Falcon 9
Danuri (KPLO - Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USALunar orbiter designed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to demonstrate technologies, survey lunar resources and produce a topographic…
Long March 2F
Chinese Reusable Space Vehicle
Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaNote: Launch time is approximate. Probable reflight of the Chinese spaceplane capable of returning to Earth, which flew in orbit September 4 - 6, …
New Shepard
NS-22
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USANS-22 is the sixth crewed New Shepard flight, carrying six passengers.
Atlas V 421
SBIRS GEO-6
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USASixth geosynchronous satellite of the Space Based Infrared System program (SBIRS), providing capabilities for early missile warning and missile defen…
