Florida Launch Schedule
Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB
Falcon Heavy | VIPER
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 30, 2023, midnight
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
SLS Block 1 | Artemis-3
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2024, midnight
Delta IV Heavy | NROL-70
United Launch Alliance | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2024, midnight
Falcon Heavy | Gateway PPE & HALO
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
May 31, 2024, midnight
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 OrbitFalcon Heavy | Europa Clipper
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 1, 2024, midnight
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
SLS Block 1B | Artemis-4
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2025, midnight
SLS Block 1B | Artemis-5
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2026, midnight
SLS Block 1B | Artemis-6
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2027, midnight
SLS Block 1B | Artemis-7
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2028, midnight
Long March 6
KL-Beta
Launch Complex 16 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaThe KL-Beta A and B, satellites are test satellites for a global multimedia satellite system for the German company KLEO Connect and the Chinese comp…
Hyperbola-1
Jilin-1 Mofang-01A (?)
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaNew generation experimental Earth imaging satellite for the Jilin-1 constellation. NOTE: Payload identity unconfirmed.
MOMO v1
Flight 6
Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan - Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, JapanDespite the MOMO unit's number, this is the seventh flight of the sounding rocket. Company aims to reach space for the third time.
Ariane 5 ECA
Star One D2 & Eutelsat Quantum
Ariane Launch Area 3 - Kourou, French GuianaStar One D2 is a 6.2 tons satellite built by Space Systems Loral for operator Star One, subsidiary of Brazilian Embratel. Its architecture is based o…
Electron
STP-27RM (It’s a Little Chile Up Here)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandA U.S. Air Force experimental spacecraft. It will demonstrate the use of a deployable sensor, where the sensor’s mass is a substantial fraction of th…
Long March 2D
Tianhui-1-04
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaTH 1 (Tianhui-1 = "Sky drawing") is a Chinese stereo-topographic mapping satellite operated by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The satellites …
Proton-M
MLM Nauka
200/39 (200L) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanNauka (which means "Science" in Russian), also known as Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), is a new module of the russian segment of the ISS. It w…
New Shepard
NS-16
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USAFirst crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
Long March 2
Yaogan-30-10
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaNOTE: Payload identity not confirmed. The Yaogan-30 is a series of military remote sensing satellites which are launched in triplets. The satellit…
SpaceShipTwo
VSS Unity 22
Spaceport America - Air launch to Suborbital flightPowered flight of VSS Unity on the first fully crewed flight. Including the founder Sir Richard Branson.
