Rocket Launches in the United States
An up-to-date list of all 199 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
21 Dec, 11:34am
UTC
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Payloads include the South Korean government's 425 Project Flight 3.
Last Update: Tweaked T-0.
22 Dec, 5:00am
UTC
Four Astranis MicroGEO communications satellite to be inserted in a custom geostationary orbit, from where they conduct on-orbit maneuvers to reach their individual slots.
Last Update: Updated launch weather.
23 Dec, 5:35am
UTC
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Tweaked T-0.
27 Dec, 5:00am
UTC
Thuraya 4-NGS is a communication satellite being built by Airbus Defense and Space for the UAE based Yahsat. Based on the all-electric Airbus Eurostar-Neo Platform, Thuraya 4-NGS will incorporate a large 12-meter L-band antenna and a payload with on-board processing providing advanced routing flexibility of up to 3200 channels with dynamic power allocation over a large number of spot beams.
Last Update: NET December 27.
29 Dec, 1:35am
UTC
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Delayed to NET December 29 UTC.
TBD
2024
This is the second launch of RS1 launch vehicle developed and built by ABL Space Systems. Payload onboard is TBD.
Last Update: Reverting to TBD 2024, following the loss of the launch vehicle in a static fire anomaly.
TBD
2024
Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.
Last Update: NET mid-2024.
OSAM-2 is a mission to demonstrate the ability of small spacecraft to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components in low-Earth orbit. Once it’s positioned in low-Earth orbit, the spacecraft will 3D-print two beams that extend 32 feet (10 meters) out from each side of the spacecraft. As manufacturing progresses, each beam will unfurl two solar arrays that generate as much as five times more power than traditional solar panels on spacecraft of similar size.
Last Update: NET 2024.
TBD
2024
Note: Name of payload is provisional. Third launch of an ultimately 5 reconnaissance satellites for the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), with 1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite on this launch. They will be launched to low Earth orbit between 600 and 700 km by 2025, enabling South Korea’s military to observe the nuclear-armed neighbor’s key military facilities every two hours with 30-50 centimeters resolution imagery, according to a 2019 report produced by the Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning. The project is lead by the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), with input from Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Hanwha Systems and Thales Alenia Space.
Last Update: NET December.
TBD
2024
Maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, consisting of communications array, power systems, and a flight computer affixed to a secondary payload adapter ring, remaining attached to the 2nd stage. This launch will serve as New Glenn's first National Security Space Launch certification flight.
Last Update: NET December.
TBD
Jan 2025
First 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 late January 2025.
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Last Update: NET January 2025. (see also Varda W-Series 2 update at https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=58044.msg2640800#msg2640800)
Blue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASA’s CLPS program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of payload to the lunar surface. It will land at Mare Crisium in the Crisium Basin and is designed to last 14 days before freezing in the lunar night. Resilience is the second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership "in situ" to the agency.
Last Update: Updated entry with Blue Ghost Mission 1 & HAKUTO-R M2 confirmed to be launching on the same rocket.
TBD
Jan 2025
Second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership "in situ" to the agency.
Last Update: NET January 2025.
Seventh test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
Updated: Dec 21, 10:30am UTC
TBD
Feb 2025
This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer.
Last Update: NET February 27.
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Updated: Dec 21, 10:30am UTC
TBD
Feb 2025
SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies. It also will search for water and organic molecules – essentials for life as we know it – in regions where stars are born from gas and dust, known as stellar nurseries, as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with SPHEREx. It consists of four suitcase-sized satellites, which will focus on the Sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona) and how it generates the solar wind. The spacecraft also will track coronal mass ejections – large eruptions of solar material that can drive large space weather events near Earth – to better understand their evolution and develop new techniques for predicting such eruptions.
Last Update: NET February.
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Updated: Dec 21, 10:30am UTC
SpaceX Crew-10 is the tenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
Last Update: NET March 25.
TBD
Mar 2025
First of six missions launched by the Space Development Agency for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Last Update: NET March 2025.
TBD
Mar 2025
Payload is a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle developed by by Australian company Hypersonix.
Updated: Apr 16, 10:45am UTC
TBD
Mar 2025
32nd 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 March 2025.
TBD
Mar 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 1H 2025.