Launch Schedule

NASA Awards Venture Class Launch Services Contracts for CubeSat Satellites (NASA)

VCLS / ELaNa XX

LauncherOne

Virgin Orbit

Cosmic Girl, 747-400, Location TBD
Country TBD

Air Launch

NASA VCLS

Aug 04

AUG 14

Galaxy 30

Ariane 5

ELA-3, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

— with: MEV-2, BSAT-4B

Aug 03

SAOCOM-1B

Falcon 9

Earth Observation Satellite

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

B1059

Aug 02

Starlink-11

Falcon 9

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

B1049

Communications Satellite

Series: SpaceX Starlink

Aug 02

OCT 2021

Ax-1

Falcon 9

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
Florida, United States

Crewed

Aug 02

Crew-1 (USCV-1)

Falcon 9

Shannon Walker, NASA (Wikipedia)

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
Florida, United States

Soichi Noguchi, JAXA

Victor J. Glover, NASA

Michael S. Hopkins, NASA

Crewed

ISS Expedition

NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)

Aug 02

Electron Launch 14

Electron

Rocket Lab

LC-1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex, Mahia Peninsula
New Zealand

Jul 31

STP-27RM (Monolith)

Electron

Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab LC-2, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Virginia, United States

Jul 31

Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) POC

Vega

Dozens of satellites joining Vega’s ride-share to space

ELV, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

— with: 26x SuperDoves, 8x Lemur-2, 2x 3Cat-5, ESAIL

Launch Kit [PDF]

Arianespace to launch the ESAIL satellite for exactEarth on Vega’s SSMS POC flight - Arianespace

Return to Flight

Jul 31

SXM-7

Falcon 9

Pad TBD, Cape Canaveral / KSC TBD
Florida, United States

Communications Satellite

Jul 28

Q1 2021

Crew-2 (Dragon)

Falcon 9

NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
Florida, United States

Crewed

ISS Expedition

Jul 23

OCT 02

CRS2 NG-14 (Cygnus)

Antares

Northrop Grumman

Pad 0A, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Virginia, United States

ISS Cargo

Jul 17

Q4 2021

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Ariane 5

The James Webb Space Telescope will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems...

ELA-3, Guiana Space Centre
French Guiana

NASA’s Webb Observatory Requires More Time for Testing and Evaluation; New Launch Window Under Review

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope completes testing at Goddard

NASA: NASA Restarts Rigorous Vibration Testing on the James Webb Space Telescope

Space Telescope

Jul 16

Q2 2021

NROL-111

Minotaur 1

Northrop Grumman

Pad 0B, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island)
Virginia, United States

Minotaur rocket launch for NRO expected at Wallops by end of 2018 (Spaceflight Now)

Classified Payload

Jul 11

Starlink-12

Falcon 9

United Launch Alliance (ULA)

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

Communications Satellite

Series: SpaceX Starlink

Jul 09

Q4 2020

CST-100 Starliner (Boe-OFT2)

Atlas V

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral AFS
Florida, United States

NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)

Test Flight

Uncrewed

Jul 07

Q1 2023

Artemis 2 (EM-2)

SLS

NASA

LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center
Florida, United States

Jul 06

GPS III SV-05

Falcon 9

Pad TBD, Cape Canaveral / KSC TBD
Florida, United States

Navigation Satellite

Series: GPS

Jul 03

GPS III SV04

Falcon 9

Firefly Aerospace Enters Launch Brokerage Agreement with Spaceflight

Pad TBD, Cape Canaveral / KSC TBD
Florida, United States

Navigation Satellite

Series: GPS

Jul 03

OCT 2020

Firefly Alpha Flight 1

Alpha

Firefly

SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

Vehicle Debut

Jun 29

2021

Terran 1 Flight 1

Terran 1

Relativity Space

LC-16, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

Test Flight

Vehicle Debut

Jun 24

Q3 2020

MAGNETO

Alpha

Firefly

SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

— with: DREAM

Jun 22

2021

Spaceflight Rideshare

Alpha

Firefly

SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB
California, United States

Jun 22

AUG 24

Ingenio

Vega