Florida Launch Schedule

Upcoming launches out of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFB

Atlas V 551 | ViaSat-3 EMEA

United Launch Alliance | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD September, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

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
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Ovzon-3

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD September, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Ovzon 3 is a planned small communications satellite of the Swedish / US company Ovzon . The satellite was ordered in December 2018 from Maxar Technologies to meet the demand for increased mobile broadband connectivity in under-served regions. Ovzon selected the new mid-size SSL-500 (Legion class) platform for its first satellite. The satellite will be equipped with a third party built central on-board processor (OBP) attached to high-performance steerable Ku-band beams.

Geostationary Orbit
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Falcon Heavy | Psyche

SpaceX | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD October, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Planetary Science

Psyche is a NASA interplanetary mission to visit the main belt asteroid of the same name, 16 Psyche. Spacecraft will take 4 years and one Mars flyby to reach the asteroid, which is of particular interest due to being comprised mostly of iron and nickel. Psyche is theorized to be a remnant of an early planet's core, and may offer insights into how solar system formed and evolved. The mission is led by Arizona State University, with NASA JPL being responsible for mission management and operations.

Heliocentric N/A
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 9 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD October, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Transporter 9 mission is a 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 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-20

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD October, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

This is the 20th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 19th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Low Earth Orbit
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Terran 1 | VCLS Demo 2 Mission One

Relativity Space | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD October, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Payload consists of a single 30 kg NASA payload to be delivered to a 500 km orbit with a 41 degrees inclination.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 3

SpaceX | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD November, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Tourism

This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a professionally trained commander 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
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Atlas V 551 | NROL-107 (Silent Barker)

United Launch Alliance | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD November, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Classified space situational awareness (SSA) payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

Unknown
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-29

SpaceX | USA
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD December, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

29th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | 4x Astranis MicroGEO

SpaceX | USA
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

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

Geostationary Orbit
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Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 19 hours ago
SES-18 & SES-19
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

SES-18 & SES-19 are two communications satellites built by Northrop Grumman.


Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 23 hours ago
Starlink Group 2-8
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 52 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 3
Success
3 days, 10 hours ago
Gaofen 13-02
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Gaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), a …


Electron
Success
3 days, 20 hours ago
Stronger Together
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C) - Wallops Island, Virginia, USA

Payload consists of 2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites for Capella Space. These 100-kg class satellites will expand Capella’s existing SA…


Long March 11
Success
5 days, 7 hours ago
Shiyan 19
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of China

Chinese Earth observation satellite of unknown purposes.


Falcon 9
Success
5 days, 18 hours ago
Dragon CRS-2 SpX-27
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

27th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commer…


Long March 2
Success
1 week ago
Horus 2
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of China

Horus 2 is a remote sensing satellite for the Egyptian Space Agency developed by Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Co., Ltd. of CAST.


Proton-M Briz-M
Success
1 week ago
Olymp-K #2 (Luch 5X)
200/39 (200L) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Secretive payload, reportedly known as Olymp-K or Luch, is a geostationary satellite built and launched for the Russian Ministry of defence and the R…


Long March 4C
Success
1 week, 3 days ago
Tianhui-6 A/B
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China

Described as satellites for cartography purposes, details TBD.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 3 days ago
OneWeb 17
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 40 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consum…