The Space Coast set a new launch record in 2023 with 72 orbital missions from the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Space Station. The pace of launches could accelerate by the end of 2024 to reach a rate close to twice a week, with up to 111 missions possible.
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In numbers :
2024: 46 Space Coast launches in 2024 (updated June 23) | 34 from Cape Canaveral, 12 from KSC | 43 from SpaceX (43 Falcon 9), 3 from ULA (1 Vulcan, 1 Delta IV Heavy, 1 Atlas V) | 3 human spaceflights (Axioms Space Ax-3, SpaceX Crew-8, Boeing Crew Flight Test)
2023: 72 Space Coast launches in 2023 | 59 from Cape Canaveral, 13 from KSC | 68 from SpaceX (63 Falcon 9, 5 Falcon Heavy), 3 from United Launch Alliance (1 Delta IV Heavy, 2 Atlas V), 1 from Relativity Space | 3 human spaceflights (Crew-6, Ax-2, Crew-7)
Details on past launches can be found at the end of the file.
JUNE
June 27: SpaceX Falcon 9 on Starlink 10-3 mission with Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Station during a four-hour launch window from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.
To be determined, 2024: United Launch Alliance Atlas V on USSF 51 from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station.
JULY
AUGUST
No earlier than mid-August 2024: SpaceX Falcon 9 on Crew-9 mission. The crew consists of NASA astronauts Zena Cardman making her first flight and the 10th of 11 members of the Turtles to fly in space; pilot Nick Hague makes his third flight, including an aborted mission from Russia, Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson, who flew three times aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-121, STS-120 and STS-131, passing 42 days in space, and Roscomos cosmonaut and mission specialist Alexander Gorbunov, making his first trip to space.
SEPTEMBER
To be determined : First launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. On the Space Force manifest for September 2024, according to Space Force officials in January 2024.
OCTOBER
October 2024: SpaceX Falcon Heavy as part of the Europa Clipper mission is to travel 1.8 billion miles to study Jupiter’s moon, Europa, to determine if there are places beneath Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, that could harbor the life. The mission’s detailed investigation of Europa will help scientists better understand the astrobiological potential of habitable worlds beyond our planet.
No earlier than October 2024: Axiom Space has obtained the right to pilot Axiom-4. No crew has been announced, but NASA requires it to be commanded by a former NASA astronaut with space station experience such as Commanders Ax-1, Ax-2, and Ax-3. The commercial flight brings four crew members for a short stay on the ISS. This mission aims for a 14-day stay and will fly with one of the SpaceX Crew Dragons. The launch date depends on spacecraft traffic to the ISS, planning of on-orbit activities and constraints that must be coordinated with NASA.
NOVEMBER
November 2024: SpaceX Falcon Heavy flying Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. It will include NASA’s Artemis lunar rover, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, which will explore the moon’s relatively close but extreme environment for ice and other potential resources. This mobile robot will land at the south pole of the Moon at the end of 2024 for a 100-day mission. The crucial information it provides will teach us about the origin and distribution of water on the Moon and help determine how to exploit the Moon’s resources for future human space exploration.
DECEMBER
December 2024: Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station with the company’s second Nova-C lander equipped with NASA’s PRIME-1 drill, to land a drill and a mass spectrometer near the moon’s south pole. to demonstrate the feasibility of using in situ resources (ISRU) and to measure the volatile content of underground samples. Also flying is the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, a small satellite designed to understand the shape, abundance and distribution of water on the Moon, as well as the lunar surface. water cycle.
UPCOMING: TO BE DETERMINED IN 2024
To be determined, 2nd half of 2024: United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur is participating in the Department of Defense’s first mission from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station. Depends on the ULA that performs certification 1 and certification 2 flights.
To be determined, 2nd half of 2024: United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur is participating in the Department of Defense’s second planned mission from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station.
UPCOMING: TO BE DETERMINED IN 2025
To be determined, at the earliest in early 2025: Boeing Starliner-1 on ULA Atlas V from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station. NASA astronauts Scott Tingle and Mike Fincke will serve as commander and pilot, respectively. This Starliner has already flown as part of Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission. According to data from the CFT mission, this could become the SpaceX Crew-10 mission.
UPCOMING: TO BE DETERMINED IN 2026
LAUNCHED IN 2024
March 23 (delayed from March 22): SpaceX Falcon 9 on Starlink mission 6-42 sending 23 additional Starlink satellites from Launch Pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center at 11:09 p.m. The first stage booster flew for the 19th time.
March 25: SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-46 mission sending 23 additional Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station at 7:42 p.m. The first stage booster flew for the eighth time and landed on the drone A Shortfall of Gravitas. .
April 10: SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-48 mission carrying 23 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station at 1:40 a.m. The first stage booster made its second flight with a recovery landing downstream of the drone. Just read the instructions. .
May 2nd: SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-55 mission carrying 23 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station at 10:37 p.m. This was the 19th flight of the first stage booster, which launched at both humans Crew 3 and Crew 4. spaceflight missions. Its recovery landing took place on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic.
May 22: SpaceX Falcon 9 on Starlink 6-62 mission carrying 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 at 10:35 p.m. This was the eighth flight of the first stage booster, which made a downstream recovery landing in the Atlantic on the droneship A. Lack of Gravitas.
May 23: SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-63 mission carrying 23 Starlink satellites from Launch Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center at 10:45 p.m. This was the 13th flight of the first stage booster, which made a landing of recovery in the Atlantic on the droneship Just read the instructions.
June 7: SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-1 mission carrying 22 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station at 9:56 p.m. The first stage booster flew for the 16th time and landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas drone. It was also the 300th landing of a Falcon 9 booster.
LAUNCHED IN 2023
August 26: SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink 6-11 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Station at 9:05 p.m. with 22 Starlink satellites. The first stage flew for the third time and landed on the Just Read the Instructions drone in the Atlantic Ocean.
December 2: SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-31 mission with 23 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station at 11 p.m. The first stage booster flew for the sixth time and landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas drone. This was the 67th launch of the year from the Space Coast, the 63rd from SpaceX in Florida, and the 89th orbital launch from SpaceX, including the California missions.
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