Florida Launch Schedule

Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB

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Terran R | Mars Lander

Relativity Space | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD October, 2024

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Impulse Space's Mars Lander is designed to support research and development needed for human exploration of Mars.

Mars Orbit

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD October, 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 Heavy | VIPER

SpaceX | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD November, 2024

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

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

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SLS Block 1 | Artemis II

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD November, 2024

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Artemis II is the first crewed mission as part of the Artemis program. Artemis II will send a crew of 4 - 3 Americans and 1 Canadian around the moon and return them back to Earth. The mission will test the core systems of NASA's Orion spacecraft including the critical life support system, among other systems which could not be tested during Artemis I due to the lack of crew onboard.

Lunar flyby

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Vulcan | USSF-23

United Launch Alliance | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Classified payload for the US Space Force.

Unknown

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New Glenn | Project Kuiper (New Glenn #1)

Blue Origin | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 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. 61 satellites will be carried on each New Glenn launch.

Low Earth Orbit

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Thuraya 4-NGS

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024

Status: To Be Determined

Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.

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Atlas V N22 | Starliner-2

United Launch Alliance | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Starliner-2 is the second crewed operational flight of a Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Low Earth Orbit

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C IM-2

SpaceX | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024

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 | USSF-124

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024

Status: To Be Determined

Mission:

Classified payload for the US Missile Defense Agency.

Low Earth Orbit

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