SpaceX Launch Schedule
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Polaris Dawn
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD March, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
First mission of the privately funded Polaris program. The goal of this mission, lasting up to five days in orbit, is to fly higher than previous Dragon missions, perform the first-ever commercial EVA with SpaceX-designed spacesuits, orbit through portions of the Van Allen radiation belt, conduct medical research, and test laser-based Starlink communications in space.
Low Earth Orbit
Falcon 9 Block 5 | ASBM 1 & 2
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD March, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
ASBM (Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission) 1 & 2 are two twin satellites built by Northrop Grumman for Space Norway, in cooperation with Inmarsat and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. They are designed to bring mobile broadband coverage in the Arctic for both civilians and military. The US Air Force provides the Extremely High Frequency eXtended Data Rate payloads on ASBM satellites as part of the Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization (EPS-R) program.
Elliptical OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 8 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD April, 2023
Falcon Heavy | USSF-52
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD April, 2023
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-28
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD June, 2023
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
28th 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 OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C IM-2
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD June, 2023
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
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 2
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD June, 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 OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Iridium-9
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD June, 2023
Falcon Heavy | Psyche, EscaPADE and Janus
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD July, 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. This launch also includes two secondary payloads: Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), which will study the Martian atmosphere, and Janus, which will study binary asteroids.
Heliocentric N/AFalcon 9 Block 5 | Thuraya 4-NGS
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD September, 2023
Soyuz 2.1a
Soyuz MS-22
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanSoyuz MS-22 will carry Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Prokopeyev, Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio to the International Space Station aboar…
Long March 2D
Yunhai-1-03
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaThe Yunhai-1 satellite is designed for detecting environmental elements in the atmosphere and ocean, the space environment, disaster prevention and r…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-34
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 54 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Electron
The Owl Spreads Its Wings
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandSecond of three launches of a StriX satellite as part of Synspective’s SAR constellation. StriX-1 can gather high resolution Earth observation data r…
Long March 7A
ChinaSat 1E
201 - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaNote: provisional information based on satellite naming The FH 2 (Feng Huo 2) series are reportedly the second generation of chinese military coms…
New Shepard
NS-23
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USATwenty-third flight of New Shepard carrying 36 science and research payloads along with tens of thousands of postcards from Club For Future.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-2 & BlueWalker 3
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 34 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. BlueWalker 3 is a rideshar…
Ariane 5 ECA+
Eutelsat Konnect VHTS
Ariane Launch Area 3 - Kourou, French GuianaEutelsat Konnect VHTS is a large geostationary high-throughput Ka-band communications satellite designed to serve Europe with a capacity of 500 Gbps.
Long March 2D
Yaogan 35 Group 05
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China3 Chinese military reconnaissance satellites.
Kuaizhou
CentiSpace-1 S3 & S4
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaCentiSpace-1 S3 and S4 are Chinese commercial small satellites by Beijing-based company Future Navigation for providing GNSS augmentation signals ser…
