| NET February 11 |
Falcon 9 • Crew-12 |
SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida |
6 a.m. EST (1100 UTC) |
| A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Onboard will be the four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission. Those are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway alongside European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscomos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. This will be second spaceflight for both Meir and Fedyaev and the first for Hathaway and Adenot. The crew will spend about nine months docked to the space station before returning to Earth. Updated: January 29 |
| NET February 12 |
Vulcan • USSF-87 |
SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida |
TBD |
| A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket will launch the USSF-87 multi-manifest mission to geosynchronous orbit. The rocket will fly in a VC4L configuration, which means that there will be four solid rocket boosters attached to the first stage and it will sport a 70-foot-long (21.3 m) payload fairing. Among the payloads onboard is the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) system. Delayed from Feb. 2 as “the team is continuing processing and working around weather and constraints prior to launch.” Updated: January 26 |
| NET February 14 |
Falcon 9 • Starlink 6-103 |
SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida |
Window opens at 5:05 p.m. EST (2205 UTC) |
| A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. The first stage booster, tail number 1090, launching for a 10th time, will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Booster previously listed as B1095. Delayed from Jan. 30. Delayed from Feb. 1 and 4. Delayed from Feb. 5. Updated: February 03 |
| NET February 15 |
Falcon 9 • Crew-12 |
SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida |
TBD |
| A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a four-person crew to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew-12 flight. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir will command the mission alongside pilot and fellow NASA astronaut, Jack Hathaway. They are joined by mission specialists Sophie Adenot, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and Andrey Fedyaev, a Roscosmos cosmonaut. This will be the second flight for Meir and Fedyaev and the first flight for both Hathaway and Adenot. The quartet will conduct a long-duration mission onboard the ISS. Following stage separation, the first stage booster supporting this mission will return to a landing site adjacent to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Updated: December 19 |
| NET February 16 |
Falcon 9 • Starlink 6-104 |
SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida |
Window opens at 2:05 a.m. EST (0705 UTC) |
| A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. The first stage booster, tail number 1077, launching for a 26th time, will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 3. Delayed from Feb. 4. Delayed from Feb. 7. Delayed from Feb. 8. Updated: February 03 |
| Late February |
New Glenn • BlueBird 7 |
Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station |
TBD |
| A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7satellite into low Earth orbit. This is the second satellite in AST SpaceMobile’s next-generation satellite constellation and is designed to support space-based cellular broadband for commercial and government customers. This will be the third launch of a New Glenn rocket to date. As of Jan. 22, Blue Origin hasn’t stated if it intends to attempt a booster recovery on this mission. Updated: January 22 |
| NET March 6/7 |
Space Launch System • Artemis 2 |
Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center |
8:29 p.m. EST (0129 UTC) |
| NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will launch an Orion spacecraft on the Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed flight of the program. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will perform a lunar flyby during a roughly 10-day mission that will see their capsule, ‘Integrity’, splash down in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from Feb. 5 & 6. Delayed from Feb. 8. Updated: February 03 |
| NET April 2026 |
Atlas 5 • Boeing Starliner-1 |
SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida |
TBD |
| A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. Originally planned as the first post-certification flight with a four-person crew, this will instead be an uncrewed cargo flight to test changes to the vehicle made in the aftermath of the Crewed Flight Test that launched in 2024. Updated: November 24 |
| NET Q4 2026 |
Vulcan Centaur • Dream Chaser 1 |
SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida |
TBD |
| 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. Delayed from 2025. Updated: December 22 |
| NET July 5, 2028 |
Falcon Heavy • Dragonfly |
Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
TBD |
| A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s Dragonfly mission, which consists of a rotorcraft designed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) that will explore Saturn’s icy moon, Titan. The mission was originally selected in 2019 and went through multiple plan iterations across fiscal years 2020 through 2022. It passed its Preliminary Design Review in March 2023 and then its Critical Design Review in April 2025. The mission has a total lifecycle cost of $3.35 billion, of which, $256.6 million was awarded to SpaceX to provide launch services and other mission related costs. The 20-day launch window opens on July 5, 2028. Updated: April 25 |