Florida Launch Schedule

Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB

Falcon 9 Block 5 | EchoStar 26

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

EchoStar 26 is a direct broadcast satellite, built on the proven Maxar 1300 series platform, which will deliver content across DISH TV customers across all 50 U.S. states & Puerto Rico. It will be equipped with a high-power, multi-spot beam payload, allowing DISH to provide high-quality content to its customers.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Atlas V N22 | Starliner-6

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Starliner-6 is the sixth 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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Terran R | Mars Orbiter

Relativity Space | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Mars science and telecommunications orbiter, with a NASA-developed atmospheric instrument suite called Aeolus. It includes a Doppler wind and temperature sensor, thermal limb sounder, surface radiometric sensors and a wide-field camera.

Mars Orbit
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Vulcan | GPS IIIF SV01

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

First Block IIIF GPS satellite

Medium Earth Orbit
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Atlas V N22 | Starliner-5

United Launch Alliance | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Starliner-5 is the fifth 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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SLS Block 1B | Artemis V

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Artemis V is planned to be the second human lunar landing mission since the Apollo Program.

Lunar Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | SEOPS Darkstar-1

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Dedicated ride-share mission to be offered by the small satellite launch integrator SEOPS to geostationary transfer orbit. Payload is TBD.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Al Yah 5

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space for Emirati satellite operator Yahsat.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Terran R | Lazuli Space Telescope

Relativity Space | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

3-meter diameter optical space telescope privately developed by Schmidt Sciences

Elliptical Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | KPS-1

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD September, 2029
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

KPS-1 is South Korea's first navigation satellite, the 1st of 8 satellites planned for the Korean Positioning System (KPS). This will be one of 5 satellites to be deployed into an Inclined Geosynchronous Orbit (IGSO), with the other 3 in geostationary orbits. The KPS is scheduled to be completed by 2035.

Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
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Electron
Success
2 days, 7 hours ago
VICTUS HAZE Puma
Unknown Pad - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

VICTUS HAZE will see Rocket Lab design, build, launch, and operate a rendezvous proximity operation (RPO) capable spacecraft. U.S. Space Force Space …


Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 8 hours ago
NROL-179
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Fourteenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Offi…


Ariane 64
Success
4 days, 5 hours ago
Amazon Leo (LE-03)
Ariane Launch Area 4 - Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, thi…


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 11 hours ago
BlueBird Block 2 #3-5
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, requi…


Kuaizhou 11
Success
4 days, 13 hours ago
CentiSpace-1 Group 05
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Note: Unofficial reports indicate there may be 1 or more additional satellites that failed to separate from the upper stage, however this is not offi…


Long March 12
Success
4 days, 15 hours ago
SatNet LEO Group 22
Commercial LC-2 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…


Long March 3B/E
Success
5 days, 8 hours ago
Shijian 31
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Classified experimental Chinese satellite of unknown purposes (officially described for "spatial environment detection" purposes).


Falcon 9
Success
6 days, 2 hours ago
Starlink Group 17-54
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Kinetica 1
Success
6 days, 14 hours ago
8 x Jilin-1
Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

8 Earth observation satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation: * High Resolution-04D 01-02 * High Resoluti…


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
Starlink Group 10-54
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.