CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Florida’s Space Coast is home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the busiest launch sites in the world.
We’ve compiled a non-exhaustive list of upcoming Space Coast launches so you can know what to expect.
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Keep checking back, though, because as most space enthusiasts know, launch schedules are subject to change due to weather, technical reasons and range restrictions.
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I repeat: All launch dates and times are tentative!
Date: Feb. 26
Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9
Mission: SpaceX will launch an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, which will carry NASA science-technology demonstrations and other commercial payloads to Mons Mouton, a lunar plateau near the moon’s South Pole region.
Launch Time: 7:02 p.m. to 8:04 p.m.
Location: Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A
Date: Feb. 26
Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9
Mission: SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, bringing another set of 21 Starlink communications satellites into orbit.
Launch Time: 10:34 p.m.
Location: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Date: Feb. 27
Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9
Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch the next batch of Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit.
Launch Time: 9:52 p.m. to 2:23 a.m. Friday
Location: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Date: March 12
Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9
Mission: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 crew members will launch for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station.
Launch Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Date: TBD
Vehicle: ULA Vulcan
Mission: Equipped with four solid rocket boosters, ULA’s third Vulcan rocket will take flight on the Space Force’s USSF-106 national security mission into geosynchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles above Earth.
Launch Time: TBD
Location: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Date: Spring
Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9
Mission: Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
Launch Time: TBD
Location: Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A
Date: Spring 2025
Vehicle: New Glenn
Mission: Blue Origin will launch its powerhouse New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This first launch will send NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars.
Launch Time: TBD
Location: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Date: May
Vehicle: ULA Vulcan
Mission: Sierra Space will launch its uncrewed Dream Chaser space plane atop a ULA Vulcan rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Launch Time: TBD
Location: Launch Complex 41.