Rocket Launches in Florida
An up-to-date list of all 132 scheduled rocket launches in Florida, and a map of active launch sites.
Rocket Launch Sites in Florida
Kennedy Space Center
NASA's primary launch site for human spaceflight, housing iconic facilities and a rich space history.
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Historic U.S. military rocket launch site, pivotal in space exploration and national security.
Upcoming Florida Launches
8 Jul, 5:48am
UTC
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Launch pad assigned.
USSF-106 is a mission for the United States Space Force. The launch will deploy various payloads directly into geosynchronous orbit, including the NTS-3 (Navigation Technology Satellite 3), a demonstration navigation satellite testing a new digital signal generator that can be reprogrammed on-orbit to broadcast new signals, improve performance by avoiding and defeating interference, and adding signatures for detecting spoofing attacks.
Last Update: NET July.
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Last Update: NET July.
TBD
Jul 2025
First of a three launches contract for Amazon's Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation.
Last Update: NET July.
SpaceX Crew-11 is the eleventh crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
Last Update: Reverted back to NET July TBD.
TBD
Aug 2025
Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.
Last Update: NET late August.
TBD
Aug 2025
33rd 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.
Last Update: NET late August.
TBD
Sep 2025
First flight of the Dream Chaser Spaceplane to the ISS.
Last Update: NET late summer.
TBD
Sep 2025
Maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), a dual-spacecraft mission to study ion and sputtered escape from Mars. The spacecrafts' scientific goals are to understand the processes controlling the structure of Mars' hybrid magnetosphere and how it guides ion flows; understand how energy and momentum are transported from the solar wind through Mars' magnetosphere; and understand the processes controlling the flow of energy and matter into and out of the collisional atmosphere.
Last Update: NET Q3 2025.
TBD
Sep 2025
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. 45 satellites will be carried on each Vulcan launch.
Last Update: NET late summer.
TBD
Sep 2025
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models. IMAP launch also includes several secondary payloads from NASA, which are: a small lunar orbiter called Lunar Trailblazer, space weather satellite SWFO-L1, GLIDE mission to study far ultraviolet emission in exosphere and a solar sail mission Solar Cruiser.
Last Update: Reverted back to NET September.
TBD
Sep 2025
2 high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.
Last Update: NET Q3 with 2 satellites on board.
TBD
Sep 2025
The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.
Last Update: NET late summer.
TBD
Sep 2025
This is the 23rd flight of the Northrop Grumman's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 22nd flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Last Update: NET mid-September.
TBD
Sep 2025
KOMPSAT-7 and 7A are the follow-up satellites of KOMPSAT-3A, whose mission is to provide high-resolution satellite images to satisfy South-Korea's governmental and institutional needs.
Updated: Jul 6, 1:00am UTC
TBD
Oct 2025
Second of two new-generation satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications to the Spanish government, its allies, and various international organizations.
Last Update: NET October.
TBD
2025
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.
TBD
2025
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 for a month.
Updated: Aug 23, 2:30am UTC
Classified payload for the US Space Force.
Updated: Dec 11, 7:30pm UTC
Payload consists of a single 30 kg NASA payload to be delivered to a 500 km orbit with a 41 degrees inclination.
Last Update: Launch vehicle choice now uncertain with Relativity Space planning to retire Terran-1 immediately; may switch to Terran-R but launch would then be NET 2026.
Classified payload for the US Space Force
Updated: Feb 20, 4:01am UTC
Classified payload for the US Space Force
Last Update: NET early 2025.
Second flight of the Dream Chaser Spaceplane to the ISS.
Last Update: NET July 2025. (page SO-27)
TBD
2025
This is the 22nd flight of the Northrop Grumman's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 21st flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Last Update: Delayed until after NG-22 due to spacecraft damage during transport.
Classified payload for the US Space Force.
Updated: Feb 20, 4:01am UTC