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 | SPHEREx
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD June, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Astrophysics
SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies. It also will search for water and organic molecules – essentials for life as we know it – in regions where stars are born from gas and dust, known as stellar nurseries, as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Polar Orbit
Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD October, 2024
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/AFalcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C IM-3
SpaceX | USAUnknown Location
TBD December, 2024
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
This is the third mission to the Moon for Intuitive Machines with its Nova-C lunar lander. It is to deliver 130 kg of payloads to the lunar surface. This mission also includes a rideshare possibility due to available excess capacity on the launch vehicle.
Lunar OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 10 & 11
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD December, 2024
Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
TBD February, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models. IMAP launch also includes several secondary payloads from NASA, which are: a small lunar orbiter called Lunar Trailblazer, space weather satellite SWFO-L1, GLIDE mission to study far ultraviolet emission in exosphere and a solar sail mission Solar Cruiser.
Heliocentric L1
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-8
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD March, 2025
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-9
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD March, 2026
Atlas V N22
CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2)
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAThis is the second uncrewed test flight for the Starliner spacecraft. Reflight of the OFT mission will allow Boeing to demonstrate readiness of the s…
Soyuz 2.1a
Kosmos 2556 (Bars-M No. 3)
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationBars-M is the second incarnation of the Bars project, which was started in the mid 1990ies to develop a successor for the Komtea class of area survei…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-18
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 53 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-15
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-13
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 53 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Hyperbola-1
Jilin-1 Mofang-01A(R)
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaNew generation experimental Earth imaging satellite for the Jilin-1 constellation. NOTE: Payload identity unconfirmed.
Long March 7
Tianzhou-4
Wenchang - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaThird cargo delivery mission to the Chinese large modular space station.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-17
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 53 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 2D
Jilin-1 Wideband-01C & High Resolution 03D-27 to 33
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaEarth observation satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation.
Electron
There and Back Again
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandCommercial rideshare mission including payloads for Alba Orbital, Astrix Astronautics, Aurora Propulsion Technologies, E-Space, Spaceflight Inc, Swar…
