The Crew-8 and American flags fly over the iconic countdown clock near the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 launch, Sunday, March 3, 2024. Photo credit: NASA Television
The Crew-8 and American flags fly over the iconic countdown clock near the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 launch, Sunday, March 3, 2024. Photo credit: NASA Television

Upcoming Launches From Florida

Here is the current schedule for upcoming Florida rocket launches.
Just so you know, launches can and do change dates and times often, so be sure to check back with us!

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32 Go for Launch!

Organization: SpaceX

Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Rocket: Falcon 9

Pad: Launch Complex 39A

Status: Go for Launch

Status Info: Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.

Window Opens: Monday, 04/21/2025 4:15:34 AM

Window Closes: Monday, 04/21/2025 4:15:34 AM

Destination: Low Earth Orbit

Mission Description: 32nd 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.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare) Awaiting Confirmation

Organization: SpaceX

Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Rocket: Falcon 9

Pad: Space Launch Complex 40

Status: To Be Confirmed

Status Info: Awaiting official confirmation - current date is known with some certainty.

Window Opens: Monday, 04/21/2025 8:43:00 PM

Window Closes: Monday, 04/21/2025 9:23:00 PM

Destination: Low Earth Orbit

Mission Description: Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-74 Awaiting Confirmation

Organization: SpaceX

Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Rocket: Falcon 9

Pad: Space Launch Complex 40

Status: To Be Confirmed

Status Info: Awaiting official confirmation - current date is known with some certainty.

Window Opens: Thursday, 04/24/2025 9:32:00 PM

Window Closes: Friday, 04/25/2025 2:39:00 AM

Destination: Low Earth Orbit

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

Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Message in a Booster) Awaiting Confirmation

Organization: Firefly Aerospace

Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Rocket: Firefly Alpha

Pad: Space Launch Complex 2W

Status: To Be Confirmed

Status Info: Awaiting official confirmation - current date is known with some certainty.

Window Opens: Sunday, 04/27/2025 9:37:00 AM

Window Closes: Sunday, 04/27/2025 11:17:00 AM

Destination: Low Earth Orbit

Mission Description: Sixth flight of the Firefly Alpha small satellite launcher, launching the demonstration mission for Lockheed Martin's new LM400 satellite bus, which will carry a communications payload. The satellite bus is customizable to support different missions, including remote sensing, communications, imagery and radar Earth observations. It can also support different kinds of orbits and launch configurations.

Atlas V 551 | Project Kuiper (KA-01) Tentative

Organization: United Launch Alliance

Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Rocket: Atlas V 551

Pad: Space Launch Complex 41

Status: To Be Determined

Status Info: Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.

Window Opens: Tuesday, 04/29/2025

Window Closes: Tuesday, 04/29/2025

Destination: Low Earth Orbit

Mission Description: Project Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-10 Tentative

Organization: SpaceX

Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Rocket: Falcon 9

Pad: Space Launch Complex 40

Status: To Be Determined

Status Info: Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.

Window Opens: Tuesday, 04/29/2025

Window Closes: Tuesday, 04/29/2025

Destination: Low Earth Orbit

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 4 Awaiting Confirmation

Organization: SpaceX

Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Rocket: Falcon 9

Pad: Launch Complex 39A

Status: To Be Confirmed

Status Info: Awaiting official confirmation - current date is known with some certainty.

Window Opens: Thursday, 05/29/2025 1:00:00 PM

Window Closes: Thursday, 05/29/2025 1:00:00 PM

Destination: Low Earth Orbit

Mission Description: 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.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV08 Tentative

Organization: SpaceX

Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Rocket: Falcon 9

Pad: Space Launch Complex 40

Status: To Be Determined

Status Info: Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.

Window Opens: Friday, 05/30/2025

Window Closes: Friday, 05/30/2025

Destination: Medium Earth Orbit

Mission Description: Eighth of ten GPS III missions.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Lima Tentative

Organization: SpaceX

Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Rocket: Falcon 9

Pad: Unknown Pad

Status: To Be Determined

Status Info: Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.

Window Opens: Friday, 05/30/2025

Window Closes: Friday, 05/30/2025

Destination: Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Mission Description: Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.

Electron | 6x HawkEye 360 Tentative

Organization: Rocket Lab

Location: Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Rocket: Electron

Pad: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

Status: To Be Determined

Status Info: Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.

Window Opens: Sunday, 06/29/2025

Window Closes: Sunday, 06/29/2025

Destination: Low Earth Orbit

Mission Description: HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission. The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).