Florida Launch Schedule

Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Astranis: From One to Many (4x Astranis MicroGEO)

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 22, 2024, 5 a.m.
Status: Go for Launch
Mission:

Four Astranis MicroGEO communications satellite to be inserted in a custom geostationary orbit, from where they conduct on-orbit maneuvers to reach their individual slots.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit B1077 - Flight Proven ( ) A Shortfall of Gravitas
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-2

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
December 23, 2024
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission:

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Low Earth Orbit Unknown F9 - Maiden Flight Unknown
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Thuraya 4-NGS

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
December 27, 2024
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission:

Thuraya 4-NGS is a communication satellite being built by Airbus Defense and Space for the UAE based Yahsat. Based on the all-electric Airbus Eurostar-Neo Platform, Thuraya 4-NGS will incorporate a large 12-meter L-band antenna and a payload with on-board processing providing advanced routing flexibility of up to 3200 channels with dynamic power allocation over a large number of spot beams.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit Unknown F9 - Maiden Flight Unknown
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New Glenn | Maiden Flight

Blue Origin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, consisting of communications array, power systems, and a flight computer affixed to a secondary payload adapter ring, remaining attached to the 2nd stage. This launch will serve as New Glenn's first National Security Space Launch certification flight.

Unknown GS1-SN001 - Maiden Flight Jacklyn
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Lima

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD January, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Blue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASA’s CLPS program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of payload to the lunar surface. It will land at Mare Crisium in the Crisium Basin and is designed to last 14 days before freezing in the lunar night. Resilience is the second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership "in situ" to the agency.

Lunar Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpainSat NG I

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD January, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

First of two new-generation satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications to the Spanish government, its allies, and various international organizations.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Lunar Trailblazer & Nova-C IM-2

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD February, 2025
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 | Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD February, 2025
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 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD February, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9
In Flight
35 minutes ago
Bandwagon 2 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers…


Long March 3
Success
20 hours, 58 minutes ago
TJSW-12
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Chinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.


Ceres-1S
Success
2 days, 1 hour ago
Tianqi 33-36
Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship - Sea Launch

4 small satellites for LEO Internet of Things (IoT) communication purposes.


KAIROS
Failure
3 days, 10 hours ago
Flight 2
Space One Launch Pad - Spaceport Kii, Japan

Second flight of the KAIROS launch vehicle. 5 satellites for testing various technologies will be on board: * TATARA-1 * PARUS-T1A * SC-Sat1…


Falcon 9
Success
3 days, 13 hours ago
O3b mPower 7 & 8
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Seventh and eighth of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by…


Falcon 9
Success
3 days, 22 hours ago
NROL-149
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Sixth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to…


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 11 hours ago
GPS III SV07 (RRT-1)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

GPS-III (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known a…


Long March 2D
Success
4 days, 17 hours ago
PIESAT-2 09-12
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for the Chinese Earth observation satellite company PIESAT.


Long March 5B/YZ-2
Success
5 days, 2 hours ago
SatNet LEO Group 01
101 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 10 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group…


Electron
Success
1 week ago
Stonehenge
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C) - Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Sub-orbital launch of the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program for a confidential customer.