Kennedy Space Center Launch Schedule
Stay updated on Kennedy Space Center's rocket launches with our real-time schedule. You can see 23 planned space missions on our website. Watch the live stream of any Kennedy Space Center rocket launch happening today.
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Booster
Unknown FH
B1072
3rd flight (122d since last use)
Unknown FH
Landing
Return to Launch Site (Landing Zone 40)
Return to Launch Site (Landing Zone 2)
Expended (Atlantic Ocean)
Mission
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Mission Type
Astrophysics
Destination
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.
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SpaceX
NASA
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launch
Last Update: GO for launch.
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Upcoming Kennedy Space Center Launches
TBD
Nov 2026
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 November.
Classified payload for the United States Space Force
Updated: Apr 12, 11:33pm UTC
TBD
2026
First flight of Astra Space's second generation small satellite launch vehicle.
Updated: Jul 27, 4:30pm UTC
TBD
Jun 2027
Artemis III is the second crew mission as part of the Artemis program. Artemis III will send a crew of 4 on a Low Earth Orbit mission, with the Orion rendezvous and dock with one or both commercial lunar landers in development by SpaceX and Blue Origin, performing in-space tests of the docked vehicles, integrated checkout of life support, communications, and propulsion systems, as well as tests of the new Extravehicular Activity (xEVA) suits.
Last Update: NET June 2027.
Classified payload for the US Space Force.
Last Update: Launch will be on Falcon Heavy.
TBD
Jun 2027
Twelfth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) encrypted military communication satellite
Last Update: Launch will be on Falcon Heavy.
Classified payload for the US Space Force.
Last Update: Launch will be on Falcon Heavy.
Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office
Last Update: Launch will be on Falcon Heavy.
TBD
Jun 2027
The Starship HLS pathfinder spacecraft in support of NASA's Artemis III mission in Low Earth Orbit will be a Version 3 vehicle equipped with a docking mechanism, but with no crew cabin or environmental control systems on board. This Starship HLS will launch after the Artemis III Orion has launched into LEO aboard SLS, and has completed its demonstrations with Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander. Once docked, Orion and Starship will spend about a day connected for checkouts and testing.
Updated: Aug 26, 12:31am UTC
TBD
2027
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
TBD
2027
Third Astrobotic lunar mission, details TBA.
Updated: Apr 11, 3:30am UTC
TBD
Jun 2028
Artemis IV is planned to be the first human lunar landing mission since the Apollo Program.
Last Update: NET first half of 2028.
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
TBD
Oct 2028
ExoMars 2028 is a second mission of two-part European Space Agency astrobiology project to search for evidence of life on Mars. The primary objective is to land the rover at a site with high potential for finding well-preserved organic material, particularly from the very early history of the planet. The rover is expected to travel several kilometers during its mission. The European rover will be the first mission to combine the capability to move across the surface and to study Mars at depth. It will collect samples with a drill down to a depth of 2 m and analyze them with next-generation instruments in an onboard laboratory. Underground samples are more likely to include biomarkers, since the tenuous martian atmosphere offers little protection from radiation and photochemistry at the surface.
Last Update: Launch service provider and launch vehicle confirmed.
TBD
2028
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.
Last Update: NET 2028.
Artemis V is planned to be the second human lunar landing mission since the Apollo Program.
Last Update: NET second half of 2028.
Private space station developed by a joint venture between Voyager Space and Airbus.
Last Update: NET 2029
Classified US Space Force mission
Last Update: Updated launch vehicle configuration.
Classified US Space Force mission
Last Update: Updated launch vehicle configuration.
Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office
Last Update: Updated launch vehicle configuration.
TBD
Sep 2030
Updated: Jan 3, 8:05pm UTC
TBD
Sep 2031
Updated: Jan 3, 8:05pm UTC