Florida Launch Schedule
Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 3
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 27, 2020, 2:49 p.m.
Status: Go
Mission: Communications
Second operational Starlink payload of 2020 and third overall. The Falcon 9 launch vehicle will carry a batch of 60 Starlink satellites that will be insterted in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at an altitude of 290 km (180 mi) and an inclination of 53°. They will then split into three orbital planes and raise their orbits to reach an operational altitude of 550 km (342 mi). The Starlink LEO constellation aims to provide worldwide affordable satellite internet access. 182 satellites (120 operational) have been deployed so far, the goal scheduled for the mid-2020s being 12,000 satellites in orbit, with a possible later extension to 42,000. The booster for this launch will be B1051, a Block 5 generation core which previously flew on SpaceX's Demonstration Mission 1 (first Crew Dragon test flight) and launched the Canadian Space Agency's RADARSAT Constellation.
Low Earth Orbit B1051 - Flight Proven ( ) Of Course I Still Love You
Atlas V 411 | Solar Orbiter
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Feb. 6, 2020, 4:27 a.m.
Status: Go
Mission: Heliophysics
Solar Orbiter is a joint ESA/NASA mission dedicated to solar and heliospheric physics. It will be used to examine how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the vast bubble of charged particles blown by the solar wind into the interstellar medium. The spacecraft will combine in situ and remote sensing observations to gain new information about the solar wind, the heliospheric magnetic field, solar energetic particles, transient interplanetary disturbances and the Sun's magnetic field.
Heliocentric N/A #SolOFalcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 4
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Feb. 15, 2020, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 5
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Feb. 29, 2020, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SAOCOM 1B
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
March 1, 2020, midnight
Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Crewed Flight Test (Crewed)
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
March 1, 2020, midnight
Atlas V 551 | AFSPC-12
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
March 1, 2020, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX-DM2 (Demonstration Mission 2)
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 1, 2020, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX CRS-20
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
March 1, 2020, 5 a.m.
Atlas V 551 | AEHF-6
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
March 13, 2020, 7:45 p.m.
Falcon 9 Block 5
Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAWhen the Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket reaches Max-Q (maximum dynamic forces), the launch abort system of the Crew Dragon spacecraft will be triggered. ...
Ariane 5 ECA
Eutelsat Konnect & GSAT-30
Ariane Launch Area 3 - Kourou, French GuianaEutelsat Konnect is an all-electric, Ka-band geostationary communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space for Eutelsat. It will provide broa...
Kuaizhou
Kuaizhou
Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaLong March 2D
Long March 2D
Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaLong March 3
TJS-5 (TJSW-5)
Unknown - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaTJS-5 is a geostationary communications satellite. It offers satellite communication, television and broadcasting services, while also verifying h...
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 2
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 5
Shijian 20
Wenchang - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaShijian 20 is an experimental geostationary communications satellite. This is also a return-to-flight launch for Long March 5 after a July 2017 fai...
Rokot / Briz-KM
Gonets-M24, Gonets-M25, Gonets-M26 & Blits-M
133/3 (133L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationGonets-M are an upgraded version of Gonets satellites, derived from military communications system Strela-3. Gonets-M constellation is tasked with...
Proton-M
Elektro-L No.3
81/24 (81P) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanElektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture re...
Atlas V N22
CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test (Uncrewed)
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAThis is the first test flight of Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. Although Atlas V and Centaur upper stage successfully put...
