Launch Schedule

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the NROL-69 mission on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. Space Force. The first stage booster, tail number B1092, will target a landing back at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station about eight-and-a-half minutes after liftoff.

Updated: March 21

Isar Aerospace will launch its first Spectrum rocket on a test flight dubbed ‘Going Full Spectrum.’ The 28-meter-tall (92 ft) rocket is set to lift off from the Andøya Spaceport in Norway. The mission will not carry any customer payloads, but rather is a test of the fully integrated rocket, which will attempt to reach orbit. Delayed from March 20. Scrubbed March 24 due to unfavorable winds.

Updated: March 24

A Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket will launch Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 satellite bus to low Earth orbit. The sixth launch of an Alpha rocket, designated FLTA006, marks the second flight within a multi-launch agreement between Firefly Aerospace and Lockheed Martin, which may include up to 25 missions within a five-year timeframe. Delayed from March 15/16 due to range availability.

Updated: March 20

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch eight satellites for phase one of German-based OroraTech’s wildfire detection constellation. The satellites will head into a 550 km circular Earth orbit at an inclination of 97 degrees. Rocket Lab will not attempt to recover the first stage booster.

Updated: March 20

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will target a landing on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’

Updated: March 21

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch four commercial astronauts into a 90-degree inclination polar orbit to begin a three-day, free-flyer mission onboard Crew Dragon Resilience. The mission is led by Chun Wang, a cryptocurrency investor and co-founder of Bitcoin mining company, f2pool. He is joined by Norway’s Jannicke Mikkelsen, vehicle commander; Australia’s Eric Philips, vehicle pilot; and Germany’s Rabea Rogge, mission specialist. This will be the fourth launch for Dragon Resilience, which will feature the return of the cupola addition to the nosecone. It replaces the Skywalker apparatus used during the Polaris Dawn mission.

Updated: March 19

A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket will launch a three-man crew to the International Space Station. Crew commander Sergey Ryzhikov will be joined by fellow cosmonaut Alexey Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonny Kim. The Soyuz is set to dock with the ISS at about 5:04 a.m. EDT (0904 UTC). The spacecraft will remain docked with the orbiting outpost until about Dec. 8, 2025. This will be the third spaceflight for Ryzhikov and the first for both Zubritsky and Kim.

Updated: February 05

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch a pair of identical spacecraft on NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission. The two satellites, named Blue and Gold, will make a roughly 11-month journey to Mars where they will then perform about an 11-month science mission while orbiting the Red Planet. Blue and Gold were manufactured by Rocket Lab over about 3.5 years and carry science experiments from the University of California, Berkeley. This launch of the New Glenn rocket will also feature a landing attempt on its landing barge in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from October 13.

Updated: March 08

A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch on its second demonstration flight with Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser cargo vehicle for the International Space Station. The Dream Chaser is a lifting body resupply spacecraft that will launch on top of a rocket and land on a runway. This will be the Dream Chaser’s first flight to space. The Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly in the VC4L configuration with four GEM-63XL solid rocket boosters, a long-length payload fairing, and two RL10 engines on the Centaur upper stage. Delayed from August 2022, December 2023, January 2024,  April 2024 and September 2024.

Updated: October 17

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the second of the two-satellite Sentinel-6 series. NASA awarded SpaceX a $94 million firm fixed price contract for the launch in 2022. The Sentinel-6B “will use a radar altimeter to bounce signals off the ocean surface and deliver continuity of ocean topography measurements,” according to NASA. The missions is designed through a partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Organization for the Exploration of Meteorological Studies.

Updated: February 27