Florida Launch Schedule
Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB
Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 series satellite
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Status: TBD
Mission: Communications
The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-87
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V 421 | SBIRS GEO-5
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
March 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon Heavy | USSF-52
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 1, 2021, midnight
OmegA | 2 x NationSat & others
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 1, 2021, midnight
Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Crewed Flight Test
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
April 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV06
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
April 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
June 1, 2021, midnight
Status: TBD
Mission: Tourism
This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a commander professionally trained by Axiom alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station. This crew will stay aboard space station for at least eight days.
Low Earth Orbit
Vulcan 522 | Peregrine lunar lander (Maiden flight)
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
July 1, 2021, midnight
Kuaizhou-11
Maiden Flight
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaFirst flight of the new solid launcher developed by ExPace, subsidiary of CASIC. It will carry 2 communication satellites on this launch.
Long March 3
APStar-6D
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaAPStar-6D is a commercial communications satellite for APT Satellite Company Ltd under an end-to-end contract signed with China Great Wall Industry...
Shavit-2
Ofek-16
Unknown - Palmachim Airbase, State of IsraelOfek is a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites.
Long March 2D
Chuangxin 3A (02)
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaChuangxin is a series of experimental small satellites developed by China Academy of Science.
Electron
Pics Or It Didn’t Happen
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand‘Pics Or It Didn’t Happen’ is the 13th mission for Rocket Lab. It was planned to deploy seven imaging small satellites to a 500km circular low Eart...
Long March 4
Gaofen Multimode
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaGaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), ...
Falcon 9 Block 5
GPS III SV03 "Columbus"
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 (know...
Long March 3
Beidou-3 G3
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaThis satellite is a part of the geostationary component of the 3rd phase of the Chinese Beidou (Compass) satellite navigation system. It features a...
Long March 2D
Gaofen-9-03
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaGaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), ...
MOMO
Flight 5
Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan - Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, JapanInterstellar Technologies will launch the 'MOMO' observation rocket on its fifth mission.
