SpaceX Launch Schedule

CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 499 Failures: 14 Pending: 118

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 | Telesat Lightspeed 2

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Up to 18 satellites manufactured by MDA for Canadian satellite operator Telesat's Lightspeed constellation.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Telesat Lightspeed 3

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Up to 18 satellites manufactured by MDA for Canadian satellite operator Telesat's Lightspeed constellation.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Telesat Lightspeed 4

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Up to 18 satellites manufactured by MDA for Canadian satellite operator Telesat's Lightspeed constellation.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Telesat Lightspeed 5

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Up to 18 satellites manufactured by MDA for Canadian satellite operator Telesat's Lightspeed constellation.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Telesat Lightspeed 6

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Up to 18 satellites manufactured by MDA for Canadian satellite operator Telesat's Lightspeed constellation.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Telesat Lightspeed 7

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Up to 18 satellites manufactured by MDA for Canadian satellite operator Telesat's Lightspeed constellation.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Skynet 6A

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

The Skynet 6A gap-filler military communications satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space to cover the gap between the Britisch Skynet-5 network and its successor. Skynet 6A was solesourced from Airbus Defence and Space in 2017, but was not fully funded until July 2020. Aibus will build the Skynet-6A satellite in the United Kingdom and arrange a 2025 launch. RAL Space, a U.K. national laboratory, will test the all-electric satellite at its facility in Harwell. Skynet-6A, based on the Eurostar-Neo platform, is expected to provide communications services for the British military until at least 2040.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer F

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Classified mission launched by the Space Development Agency (SDA) for Tranche 1 Transport Layer.

Polar Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer A

SpaceX | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Classified mission launched by the Space Development Agency (SDA) for Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.

Polar Orbit
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-77

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office

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Falcon 9
Success
11 hours, 3 minutes ago
Starlink Group 12-22
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
1 day, 5 hours ago
Starlink Group 11-16
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Success
1 day, 19 hours ago
Kosmos 2588
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Unknown classified payload for the Russian military.


Kinetica 1
Success
4 days ago
6 satellites
Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Carried 6 satellites to Sun-synchronous orbit, including commercial Earth observation satellites Taijing-3-04 & Taijing-4-02A: * Taijing-3-04 * T…


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 1 hour ago
Starlink Group 12-15
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 7A
Success
4 days, 16 hours ago
ChinaSat 3B
201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Chinese communication geostationary satellite for unknown purposes.


Ceres-1S
Success
5 days, 20 hours ago
Tianqi 16-18 & 20
Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship - Sea Launch

4 small satellites for LEO Internet of Things (IoT) communication purposes.


PSLV-XL
Failure
1 week ago
EOS-09 (RISAT-1B)
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

RISAT-1B is the third in the series of radar imaging RISAT-1 satellites of ISRO using an active C-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar), providing all-…


Electron
Success
1 week ago
The Sea God Sees (iQPS Launch 2)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS.


Zhuque-2E
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
6 satellites
Launch Area 96 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

6 satellites from satellite manufacturer SpaceTY, including 3 multi-spectral Earth observation satellites and 3 technology demonstration satellites f…