Rocket Launches in the United States
An up-to-date list of all 192 scheduled rocket launches in the United States, and a map of active launch sites.
Rocket Launch Sites in the United States
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Historic U.S. military rocket launch site, pivotal in space exploration and national security.
Kennedy Space Center

NASA's primary launch site for human spaceflight, housing iconic facilities and a rich space history.
Starbase

SpaceX's facility in Texas for developing and launching Starship rockets.
Corn Ranch

Spaceport in Texas, USA, operated by Blue Origin for New Shepard rocket launches and tests.
Vandenberg SFB

U.S. Space Force facility in California for spacecraft launches and missile testing.
Mojave Air and Space Port

A leading air launch facility for private spaceflight and aerospace research in Mojave, California.
Wallops Island

NASA rocket launch site for science and exploration missions, established in 1945 in Virginia.
Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska

Commercial and military spaceport in Alaska, supporting orbital and sub-orbital launches since 1998.
Spaceport America

Purpose-built commercial spaceport in New Mexico, supporting vertical and horizontal launches.
Upcoming the United States Launches
5 Sep, 11:29am
UTC
A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Now targeting Sep 05 at 11:29 UTC
6 Sep, 3:42pm
UTC
A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: Sep 5, 3:00am UTC
9 Sep, 12:02am
UTC
Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.
Last Update: GO for launch.
10 Sep, 2:12pm
UTC
Classified mission launched by the Space Development Agency (SDA) for Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Last Update: GO for launch.
13 Sep, 3:41pm
UTC
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: Sep 5, 3:00am UTC
15 Sep, 9:49pm
UTC
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: GO for launch.
23 Sep, 11:30am
UTC
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.
Updated: Sep 5, 3:00am UTC
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.
Last Update: NET September 25.
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 September 29.
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.
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Last Update: Changed launch pad.
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: Sep 5, 3:00am UTC
Eleventh batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
Last Update: NET early September.
TBD
Sep 2025
Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Labβs Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program, details TBD.
Last Update: Launch delayed with new date TBD per cancellation of NOTAMs.
TBD
Sep 2025
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Reverted back to NET August TBD with lack of confirmation.
TBD
Sep 2025
NS-35 is the 35th flight for the New Shepard program. This flight will fly more than 40 scientific and research payloads to space and back, including 24 experiments from NASAβs TechRise Student Challenge and payloads for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Oklahoma State University, University of Florida, Carthage College, University of Central Florida, Teledyne, Space Lab Technologies, and Teachers in Space, among others.
Last Update: Reverted back to August TBD.
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 22.
TBD
Oct 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 second half of October 2025.
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Last Update: Changed launch site.
TBD
Nov 2025
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (launched November 2020) and Sentinel-6B make up the Sentinel-6 mission, also known as Jason Continuity of Service (Jason-CS), which is a partnership between NASA, NOAA, ESA, and EUMETSAT. This mission continues the long-term global sea surface height data record begun by first Jason satellites in 1992.
Last Update: NET November 16.
TBD
Dec 2025
STP-S29A is a mission under the U.S. Department of Defense's Space Test Program (STP) that will deliver technology demonstrations to orbit and contribute to future space system development, with this launch delivering up to 200 kg of STP cubesats to Low Earth Orbit. The main payload will be STPSat-7, an ESPA class satellite based on the Aegis Aerospace M-1 satellite bus used on the STPSat-4 mission for hosting research and technology demonstration payloads for the Department of Defense (DoD). One of the payload is U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Lightsheet Anomaly Resolution and Debris Observation (LARADO) instrument, used to detect and characterize lethal non-trackable orbital debris with lasers in orbit.
Last Update: NET December 10.
First flight of the Dream Chaser Spaceplane to the ISS.
Last Update: NET late 2025.
First of six missions launched by the Space Development Agency for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Last Update: NET March 2025.
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