Rocket Launches in the United States
An up-to-date list of all 200 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
4 May, 8:54am
UTC
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Updated launch weather.
6 May, 12:48am
UTC
A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: NET May 6 UTC per marine navigation warnings.
9 May, 6:54am
UTC
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Changed launch pad.
10 May, 12:38am
UTC
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: May 4, 8:00am UTC
29 May, 5:03pm
UTC
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.
TBD
May 2025
Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.
Last Update: NET May 2025.
TBD
May 2025
Eighth of ten GPS III missions.
Last Update: Changed launch pad.
TBD
May 2025
The Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System (EWS) Operational Demonstration-1 (OD-1) is a weather satellite for the United States Space Force. It is a prototype satellite made by General Atomics that will be place in LEO for a three-year demonstration mission of new EO/IR sensor technologies to various US military branches, and to act as a stop-gap for Defense Department needs for weather data.
Updated: May 4, 8:00am UTC
TBD
May 2025
A batch of 26 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Delayed TBD with removal of official webpage.
TBD
Jun 2025
SXM-10 is the 11th high-powered, digital, audio radio satellite built by Maxar (SSL) for SiriusXM. The SXM-10 satellite will be based on Maxarβs proven 1300-class platform and built at the companyβs manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. SXM-10 has a large, mesh, unfurlable reflector almost 10 meters in diameter that allows SiriusXM programming to reach its radios, including those in moving vehicles.
Last Update: NET June 6.
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 Q2 2025.
TBD
Jun 2025
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).
Last Update: NET June.
TBD
Jun 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: Launch delayed to Q2 2025.
NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembourg Earth Observation System). Its purpose is to provide high resolution images to national and international governmental and military organizations such as NATO. The 800 kg satellite is built by OHB Italia and is equipped with a very high-resolution optical camera with a ground reolution of 50 cm in an around 450 km high sun-synchronous orbit. It will have a operational life time of 7 years.
Last Update: NET 1H 2025.
TBD
Jun 2025
Payload is a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle developed by by Australian company Hypersonix.
Last Update: Adding flight NET Q1 2025
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Last Update: NET June.
TBD
Jun 2025
First of a three launches contract for Amazon's Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation.
Updated: May 4, 8:00am UTC
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.
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: NET July 2025.
Second of EUMETSAT's third generation of weather satellite.
Last Update: NET July 2025.
TBD
Aug 2025
First flight of Blue Origin's Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander.
Last Update: NET August.
TBD
Sep 2025
First flight of the Dream Chaser Spaceplane to the ISS.
Last Update: NET late summer.
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
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 Q3 2025.
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: NET September.