The latest rocket launch schedule for Florida’s Space Coast, which includes Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. All times Eastern.
August 16: SpaceX Starlink 6-10
- Company / Agency: Internal SpaceX mission
- Rocket: SpaceX Falcon 9
- Location: Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Launch Time: 8:14 p.m. EDT
- Trajectory: Southeast
- Weather: 20% “go” increases to 65% by end of window
- Landing: Drone ship
- Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space
- About: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company’s latest batch of Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
August 25: SpaceX Crew-7
- Company / Agency: SpaceX for NASA
- Rocket: SpaceX Falcon 9
- Location: Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center
- Launch Time: 3:49 a.m. EDT
- Trajectory: Northeast
- Weather: TBD
- Landing: TBD
- Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space
- About: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov on NASA’s next long-duration crewed mission to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Endurance Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- Notes:
- Rescheduled from August 15.
- Rescheduled from August 17.
- Rescheduled from August 21.
August 29: ULA NROL-107
- Company / Agency: United Launch Alliance for Space Force and National Reconnaissance Office
- Rocket: Atlas V 551
- Location: Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Launch Time: TBD
- Trajectory: TBD
- Weather: TBD
- Landing: None; Atlas V is expendable
- Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space
- About: ULA’s Atlas V rocket will launch the classified NROL-107 national security mission for the U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office. The payload is part of the Space Force’s Silent Barker satellite constellation network intended to provide space situational awareness, orbital surveillance, and tracking.
October 5: SpaceX Psyche
- Company / Agency: SpaceX for NASA
- Rocket: SpaceX Falcon Heavy
- Location: Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center
- Launch Time: 10:38 a.m. EDT
- Trajectory: TBD
- Weather: TBD
- Landing: Landing Zones 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space
- About: SpaceX will launch a triple-core Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with NASA’s Psyche spacecraft that’s designed to study a metal asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
2023 TBD: ULA Vulcan Centaur inaugural flight
- Company / Agency: United Launch Alliance
- Rocket: ULA Vulcan Centaur
- Location: Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Launch Time: TBD
- Trajectory: Northeast
- Weather: TBD
- Landing: None; Vulcan is expendable
- Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space
- About: ULA’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket, which will replace Atlas V to become the only vehicle in its fleet, will fly its inaugural mission from Cape Canaveral with Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander. The lander, selected by NASA to help advance research ahead of putting two astronauts on the surface sometime before 2030, is expected to touch down on the northern part of the moon.
