Kennedy Space Center Launch Schedule

29 May, 5:03pm

UTC

🚀 Falcon 9 Block 5

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

👨‍🚀 4 Astronauts

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.

Last Update: Updated launch time.

Griffin Mission One

TBD

2025

🎯 Lunar Lander

Demonstration flight of the Astrobotic Griffin lander and its engines, initially contracted for the cancelled NASA VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission. The vacated payload spot will now host the FLIP (FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform) lunar rover from Astrolab.

Last Update: NET December.

Artemis II

NASA

TBD

Apr 2026

🚀 SLS Block 1

🎯 Lunar Orbit

👨‍🚀 4 Astronauts

Artemis II is the first crewed mission as part of the Artemis program. Artemis II will send a crew of 4 - 3 Americans and 1 Canadian around the moon and return them back to Earth. The mission will test the core systems of NASA's Orion spacecraft including the critical life support system, among other systems which could not be tested during Artemis I due to the lack of crew onboard.

Last Update: NET April 2026.

Vast-1

TBD

Jun 2026

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

🚀 Falcon 9 Block 5

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

First crewed mission to the Haven-1 commercial space station.

Last Update: NET Late June 2026.

TBD

Oct 2026

🎯 Sun-Earth L2

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA infrared space telescope with a 2.4 m (7.9 ft) wide field of view primary mirror and two scientific instruments. The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) is a 300.8-megapixel multi-band visible and near-infrared camera, providing a sharpness of images comparable to that achieved by the Hubble Space Telescope over a 0.28 square degree field of view, 100 times larger than imaging cameras on the Hubble. The Coronagraphic Instrument (CGI) is a high-contrast, small field of view camera and spectrometer covering visible and near-infrared wavelengths using novel starlight-suppression technology. Roman objectives include a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing, and probing the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structure, with the goal of measuring the effects of dark energy, the consistency of general relativity, and the curvature of spacetime.

Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC

USSF-70

TBD

2026

🎯 Geostationary Orbit

Classified payload for the United States Space Force

Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC

USSF-75

TBD

2026

🎯 Geostationary Orbit

Classified payload for the United States Space Force

Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC

Astrobotic-3

TBD

2026

SLS Block 1 | Artemis III

🎯 Lunar Orbit

Third Astrobotic lunar mission, details TBA.

Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC

NASA

TBD

Jun 2027

🚀 SLS Block 1

Last Update: NET mid-2027.

Superbird-9

TBD

Jun 2027

🚀 Starship

🎯 Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit

Superbird-9 is a high throughput communication satellite. It is designed to deliver broadcast and broadband missions in Ku band primarily over Japan and Eastern Asia, in response to mobility and broadband demands.

Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC

Gateway PPE & HALO

TBD

2027

🎯 Lunar Orbit

The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) are the foundational elements of NASA's lunar-orbiting space station "Gateway". The PPE is a 60-kilowatt class solar electric propulsion spacecraft that also will provide power, high-speed communications, attitude control and the capability to move the Gateway to different lunar orbits. The HALO is the pressurized living quarters where astronauts who visit the Gateway, often on their way to the Moon, will work. It will provide command and control and serve as the docking hub for the outpost. HALO will support science investigations, distribute power, provide communications for visiting vehicles and lunar surface expeditions, and supplement the life support systems aboard Orion, NASA’s spacecraft that will deliver Artemis astronauts to the Gateway.

Last Update: NET 2027

Dragonfly

TBD

Jul 2028

SLS Block 1B | Artemis IV

🎯 Heliocentric N/A

Dragonfly is NASA's 4th New Frontiers program mission that will send a robotic rotorcraft to fly within the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan to sample materials and determine surface composition in different geologic settings, advancing humanity's search for the building blocks of life. The craft is a large quadcopter with double rotors with mass of about 875 kg, featuring rotors of 1.35 m in diameter. It can fly through several kilometers within an hour and will perform 1 flight per Titan day (~16 Earth days). During the planned 3.3-year mission, Dragonfly is expected to cover distance up to several hundred km. Dragonfly will use a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) to power its instruments. The planned science instrument suite is: * DragonCam: Camera Suite * DrACO: Drill for Acquisition of Complex Organics * DraMS: Mass Spectrometer * DraGNS: Gamma-ray and Neutron Spectrometer * DraGMet: Geophysics and Meteorology

Updated: Nov 27, 11:30am UTC

NASA

TBD

Sep 2028

🚀 SLS Block 1B

Updated: Apr 16, 10:45am UTC

Starlab