Upcoming NASA Rocket Launches to Space, Livestreams & Events

All National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) dates are estimates based on the latest available information and may change
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NASA SpaceX CRS-30 Undocking From International Space Station (ISS)

UPDATED

 

NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 35 of 36 days • Cargo Dragon C209.4 Flight 4 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

@Space_Station NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 28, for the Dragon spacecraft's undocking due to unfavorable weather conditions at the splashdown zones

SpaceX Cargo Dragon Docked to International Space Station (ISS)

NASA Boeing Starliner CFT to International Space Station (ISS)

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

 

Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United Launch Alliance (ULA)Atlas V N22 | RD-180 Engine | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Centaur Second Stage | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10A-4-2 Engines • Boeing Crew Space Transportation CST-100 StarlinerCrew Flight Test (CFT)NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)FCC

@Commercial_Crew NASA’s Boeing Space Crew Flight Test is now targeting no earlier than Monday, May 6, for Starliner’s first launch with astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams. The date adjustment better optimizes International Space Station (ISS)'s schedule of activities

Boeing Starliner

NASA Rocket Lab PREFIRE-1

May

Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR)NASA Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Mission 1 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

@RocketLab Two Electron launches, one very important climate change mission for NASA. PREFIRE will study Arctic warming to help researchers fight against rising sea levels and melting ice sheets. We’re proud to support this latest NASA mission with two Electron launches from LC-1 in mid 2024

NASA PREFIRE

NASA Rocket Lab PREFIRE-2

May

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Mission 2 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

@RocketLab Two Electron launches, one very important climate change mission for NASA. PREFIRE will study Arctic warming to help researchers fight against rising sea levels and melting ice sheets. We’re proud to support this latest NASA mission with two Electron launches from LC-1 in mid 2024

NASA PREFIRE

NASA ISRO LVM2 NISAR

UPDATED • DELAYED

2024

Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) Second Launch Pad (SLP) | Sriharikota | India • Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark II (GSLV Mk 2 / LVM2) F15 • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR)Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit

@NASA_LSP NISAR is another step closer to its 2024 launch! 🚀 The NASA - ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar will be the most advanced radar system ever launched as part of a NASA science mission. NISAR will collect measurements day and night, in all weather conditions!

NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR)

ESA Ariane 6 Maiden Flight

UPDATED • DELAYED

 

Ariane Launch Complex | Ensemble de Lancement Ariane 4 (ELA-4) • Guiana Space Centre | Centre spatial guyanais (CSG) • French Guiana • Maiden Flight Arianespace Ariane 6European Space Agency (ESA) Ariane 6 • NASA CUbesat Radio Interferometry Experiment (CURIE) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

@AschbacherJosef 🚀 Ariane 6 first launch is now targeted between mid June and end of July 2024!
With the latest test complete, Ariane 6 has been through the essential rehearsals required for qualification. We have validated our models, increased our knowledge of operations and are now confident for our first launch period for Europe’s new heavy-lift launcher. A huge thank you for the dedication, expertise and hard work from all the teams involved who have often been working in shifts non-stop to get this far, we are looking forward to seeing Ariane 6 soar

Ariane 6

NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy NOAA GOES-U (GOES-19)

UPDATED • DELAYED

 

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)United States Space Force (USSF)Falcon Heavy TBC Expendable Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster | Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • TBC Reusable Side Booster | Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NEDIS) | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) R SeriesNASA GOES NetworkLockheed Martin GOES-R SeriesGeostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)

@NASAKennedy NASA and SpaceX now are targeting June 25 for the launch of GOES-U, the fourth and final satellite in @NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – R Series. GOES-U will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R Series (GOES)

NASA ULA Vulcan Centaur (Cert-2) Sierra Space Dream Chaser Demo-1 Cargo to International Space Station (ISS)

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

June

Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United Launch Alliance (ULA) • Certification-2 Vulcan Centaur VC4L | Twin Blue Origin BE-4 Engines | Four Northrop Grumman GEM-63XL Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-X Engines • Sierra Space Dream Chaser DC-101 Tenacity • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)Press Kit

@NASASpaceOps NASA and @SierraSpaceCo are preparing for the first flight of the company’s Dream Chaser spacecraft to International Space Station (ISS). Dream Chaser and its companion cargo module, called Shooting Star, arrived at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, for environmental testing, scheduled to start in mid-December, ahead of its first flight, scheduled for the first half of 2024

SNC Dream Chaser in Orbit

NASA Boeing Starliner-1 to International Space Station (ISS)

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

Mid 2024

Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United Launch Alliance (ULA)Atlas V N22 | RD-180 Engine | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Centaur Second Stage | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10A-4-2 Engines • Boeing Crew Space Transportation CST-100 StarlinerNASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)

@Commercial_Crew NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1: NET Summer 2024

Boeing Starliner

NASA ESCAPADE New Glenn

UPDATED • REMANIFESTED • DELAYED

August

Launch Complex 16 (LC-36) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) | Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) • Blue Origin New Glenn Reusable | Seven BE-4 Engines • Second Stage | Three BE-3U Upper Stage Engines • Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE)Rocket Lab ESCAPADE | Twin Photon Explorer Spacecraft | HyperCurie Engine • Mars | Explorer

@blueorigin We’re honored to have been selected by NASA's Launch Services Program to launch the ESCAPADE science mission on New Glenn. With ESCAPADE, NASA will study Mars’ magnetosphere

Blue Origin New Glenn

NASA Rocket Lab LOXSAT

 

Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Photon Upper Stage | Curie EngineNASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)NASA Tipping Point ProgramEta Space LOXSATLow Earth Orbit (LEO)

@RocketLab LOXSAT is an incredibly exciting and ambitious mission. Electron and Photon will conduct a flight demonstration of a complete cryogenic fluid management system in orbit for NASA and Eta Space - essentially building, launching, and testing a cryogenic fuel depot in space!

Eta Space LOXSAT

NASA Firefly Blue Ghost M1 Lunar Lander to the Moon

2024

Space Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)Italian space agency Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)Firefly Blue Ghost • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • NASA Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE)Montana State University (MSU) Radiation Tolerant Computer (RadPC-Lunar)Moon | Explorer

@Firefly_Space Blue Ghost Mission 1 update: Payload #8 has arrived! The team successfully fit-checked Honeybee Robotics's Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER)

Firefly Blue Ghost Lunar Lander

NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy Europa Clipper

October

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)NASA Launch Services Program (LSP)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) [JHUAPL]Falcon Heavy TBC Expendable Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Europa

@EuropaClipper We’re one step closer to exploring Jupiter’s icy moon Europa! The main body of our spacecraft is complete and has been delivered to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). Coming up next: final assembly and testing ahead of our planned 2024 launch. 🛰

Europa Clipper

NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy Griffin & VIPER Rover to the Lunar South Pole

UPDATED • DELAYED

November

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon Heavy TBC Expendable Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)Astrobotic Griffin Lunar LanderNASA Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer

@NASAAmes To allow for additional testing of the lunar lander that will deliver our VIPER rover to the lunar South Pole, its arrival to the Moon is now scheduled for 2024

NASA VIPER

NASA SpaceX IM-2 PRIME-1 & Lunar Trailblazer Nova-C Lunar Lander

UPDATED • DELAYED

2024

TBC Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD)Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • AstroForge Odin (Brokkr-2) | OrbAstro ORB-50NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander | µNova (Micro Nova) HopperPolar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1)California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Lunar TrailblazerLunar Outpost Lunar Voyage 1 | Lunar Outpost Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP)International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) ILO-1Moon | Explorer

@NASAKennedy NASA plans to learn more about water on the Moon with the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1). A lander will take it to the lunar South Pole where it will drill into the surface and identify what it finds

NASA Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1)

NASA SpaceX IMAP SWFO-L1 GLIDE Rideshare

February 2025

TBC Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP)NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) | Princeton UniversityNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NEDIS) Space Weather Follow On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) | Ball Aerospace | Rocket LabNASA Carruthers Geocorona Observatory | GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere) | Rocket Lab Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1)

NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)

NASA SpaceX IM-3 (CP-11) Nova-C Lunar Lander

2025

TBC Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD)Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) | NASA Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) CP-11Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander • NASA Lunar Vertex (LVx) | Lunar Outpost Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) [JHUAPL]Four Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) Lunar RoversMoon | ExplorerReiner Gamma Swirl

@Int_Machines As part of NASA's Artemis lunar exploration efforts we will be investigating lunar swirls as we suspect they may help shield future Artemis astronauts from the intense radiation on the Moon. IM-3 will complete complex lunar operations, including investigating the Reiner Gamma swirl

Intuitive Machines IM-3 Nova-C Lunar Lander

NASA SpaceX TRACERS

 

Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR)NASA Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) | University of Iowa Physics and AstronomyLow Earth Orbit (LEO)

@NASA_LSP 🚀NASA selects SpaceX to provide the launch service for TRACERS, a pair of small satellites to study space weather and the Earth’s magnetosphere

NASA Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS)

NASA SpaceX SPHEREx & PUNCH

NET April 2025

Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)NASA JPL Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) SPHERExNASA Goddard Small Explorers (SMEX)NASA Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) | Southwest Research Institute (SWRI)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

@NASASun NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)'s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission!

NASA Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx)

NASA Cygnus NG-23 (CRS-23) to International Space Station (ISS)

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

NET June 2025

Launch Complex 0 Pad A (LP-0A) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Maiden Flight Antares 330 • Seven Firefly Miranda Engines • Three Castor 30XL Solid Motors Second Stage • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-23 (CRS-23) • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)

@Firefly_Space The Firefly crew completed our 1st Miranda hot fire! 7 of these 230,000 lbf engines will power the 1st stage of Northrop Grumman Space Systems's Antares 330 & the Medium Launch Vehicle we're developing together. More to come as we work towards a full-duration hot fire

Northrop Grumman Antares

NASA Artemis II SLS & Crewed Orion Around the Moon

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

NET September 2025

Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 2Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-2 Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service ModuleOrion • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer

@NASA In order to safely carry out our upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon with astronauts, we are now targeting September 2025 for Artemis II and September 2026 for Artemis III. Safety is our top priority

NASA Space Launch System (SLS) with Orion at LC-39B

NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy PPE & HALO to Lunar Gateway

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

NET 2025

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon Heavy TBC Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Artemis Lunar GatewayMaxar Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) • Northrop Grumman Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer

@NASA_Gateway Gateway is coming together 🤩 Following structural welding, the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module will ship from Italy to Gilbert, Arizona, where Northrop Grumman will outfit various components to support future NASA Artemis missions

NASA Artemis Lunar Gateway

NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy GLS-1 to Lunar Gateway

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

NET 2025

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon Heavy TBC Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Lunar Cargo Dragon XL • NASA Artemis Lunar Gateway | NASA Gateway Logistics Services (GLS) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer

@NASA_Gateway To support lunar surface missions, Gateway’s Deep Space Logistics Project managed out of NASA's Kennedy Space Center will deliver critical cargo, science experiments, and supplies using Gateway’s Logistics Services

NASA SpaceX Team Draper CP-12 ispace APEX Lunar Lander

UPDATED • DELAYED

2026

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)NASA Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) CP-12Draper CP-12General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS)Karman Systimaispace APEX 1.0 Lunar LanderMoon | ExplorerSchrödinger Basin

@DraperLab Draper has been selected by NASA to deliver a suite of three NASA-sponsored science payloads to the Schrödinger basin on the lunar surface, which is on the far side of the Moon—a first for NASA. Our team includes ispace, General Atomics & Karman Systima

ispace APEX 1.0 Lunar Lander

NASA Firefly Blue Ghost M2 Lunar Lander to the Moon

2026

Space Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)Firefly Blue Ghost • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Lunar Surface Electromagnetic Experiment at Night (LuSEE-Night)ESA Lunar Pathfinder | SSTL Lunar PathfinderMoon | Explorer

@Firefly_Space Another big lunar win! Firefly was awarded its third NASA CLPS contract to provide radio frequency calibration services from lunar orbit. As part of Blue Ghost Mission 2, these services will allow NASA’s LuSEE-Night radio telescope to further unlock the origins of the universe

Firefly Blue Ghost Lunar Lander

NASA Artemis III SLS & Crewed Orion to the Moon

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

September 2026

Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 3Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-2 Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service ModuleOrion • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer

@NASA In order to safely carry out our upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon with astronauts, we are now targeting September 2025 for Artemis II and September 2026 for Artemis III. Safety is our top priority

NASA Space Launch System (SLS) with Orion at LC-39B

NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy NGRST Space Telescope

October 2026

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon Heavy TBC Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (NGRST) Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2)

@SpaceX NASA has selected Falcon Heavy to launch the Roman Space Telescope, which is designed to study dark energy and dark matter, search for and image exoplanets, and more. Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than October 2026 from Launch Complex 39A in Florida

NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (NGRST)

NASA JPSS-3 (NOAA-22)

2027

TBD • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)

@northropgrumman Progress update: ✅ ✅ Our Gilbert, AZ Satellite Manufacturing Facility team has successfully completed electromagnetic interference (EMI) testing on the JPSS-3 weather & earth observation satellite we’re building with NASA for @NOAASatellites 🌎 🛰️

Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)

NASA Artemis IIII SLS & Crewed Orion to Lunar Gateway & Moon

UPDATED • DELAYED • DELAY EXPECTED

September 2028

Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 4Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-3 Hydrolox (5.7:1) Exploration Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service ModuleOrion • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • NASA Artemis Lunar GatewayMoon | Explorer

NASA Space Launch System (SLS) with Orion at LC-39B

Recent Videos of NASA Rocket Launches to Space & Events

NASA ULA Vulcan Centaur Maiden Flight (Cert-1) Peregrine Lunar Lander

ANOMALY

 

Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United Launch Alliance (ULA) • Certification-1 Maiden Flight Vulcan Centaur VC2S | Twin Blue Origin BE-4 Engines | Two Northrop Grumman GEM-63XL Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-X Engines • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Celestis Enterprise Memorial Spaceflight Solar Orbit • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Celestis Tranquility Memorial SpaceflightNASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) | TO2-ABAstrobotic Peregrine Lunar Lander Anomaly • Sinus Viscositatis | Gruithuisen Domes | Moon | ExplorerPress KitPress KitAdvisory

NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy ASU Psyche

 

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)NASA Launch Services Program (LSP)NASA Discovery ProgramFalcon Heavy B1079.1 First Flight Expendable Core • B1064.4 Flight 4 Reusable Side Booster | Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • B1065.4 Flight 4 Reusable Side Booster | Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) • Heliocentric Orbit • Heliocentric Orbit • Psyche | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | Mission To PsycheDeep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)16 Psyche M-Type AsteroidAdvisory

JAXA H-IIA F47 XRISM SLIM (Moon Sniper) Lunar Lander

 

Launch Pad 1 (LA-Y1) • Yoshinobu Launch Complex (LC-Y) • Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) | Japan • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) • Flight 47 JAXA H2A (H-IIA) 202 | Twin Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB-A) | Twin Solid Strap-On Boosters (SSB) • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H-IIA (H2A)JAXA X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) | Resolve (Soft X-ray Spectrometer) | Xtend (Soft X-ray Imager)NASA XRISMLow Earth Orbit (LEO) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | ExplorerSmart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) | Lunar Excursion Vehicle 1 (LEV-1) | SORA-Q Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2)Press KitPress Kit

NASA Cygnus NG-19 S.S. Laurel Clark (CRS-19) to International Space Station (ISS)

 

Launch Complex 0 Pad A (LP-0A) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Final Flight Antares 230+ • Twin RD-181 Engines • Three Castor 30XL Solid Motors Second Stage • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-19 S.S. Laurel Clark (CRS-19) • 156 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Berthed 140 days • Press KitAdvisory

NASA Rocket Lab Baby Come Back Starling Smallsat Rideshare

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick StageNASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) | 4 NASA Starling (Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde)Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) DEFIANT | Exolaunch | Telesat LEO 3 Demo | 2 Spire Global Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occulation (GNSS-RO)Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous OrbitPress KitAdvisory

NASA Rocket Lab Coming to a Storm Near You TROPICS-3

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL)Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT)NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Mission 2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Press KitAdvisory

NASA Rocket Lab Rocket Like a Hurricane TROPICS-2

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick StageNASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) | Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT)NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Mission 1 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Press KitAdvisory

SpaceX Intelsat 40e (IS-40e) NASA TEMPO

 

Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1076.4 Flight 4 • A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Intelsat 40eMaxar Technologies 1300-Class Platform • Hosted Payload NASA Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) | Ball Aerospace | Smithsonian Astrophysical ObservatoryGeosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)Advisory

NASA SpaceX CRS-27 to International Space Station (ISS)

 

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1073.7 Flight 7 Reuseable • A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Cargo Dragon C209.3 Flight 3 • 32 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 50 • Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program Houston 9 (STP-H9)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)Advisory

NASA SpaceX CRS-26 to International Space Station (ISS)

 

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1076.1 First Flight Reuseable • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Cargo Dragon C211.1 First Flight • 46 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 49 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 43 days • Advisory

NASA Artemis I SLS & Uncrewed Orion Around the Moon

 

Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 1Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10B-2 Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service ModuleOrion • 25 days • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • BioSentinelSWRI CubeSat to Study Solar Particles (CuSP)ASU Luna Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map)Lunar IceCubeTerran Orbital Lunar InfraRed Imaging (LunIR)JAXA EQUULEUSJAXA OMOTENASHI • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Moon | ExplorerLaunch WindowsRealtime TrackingPress KitAdvisory

NASA ULA Atlas V JPSS-2 (NOAA-21) & LOFTID

 

Space Launch Complex 3 East (SLC-3E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)United Launch Alliance (ULA)Atlas V 401 Slick | RD-180 Engine | Centaur Second Stage | Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1 Engine • NASA Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)

NASA Cygnus NG-18 S.S. Sally Ride (CRS-18) to International Space Station (ISS)

 

Launch Complex 0 Pad A (LP-0A) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight FacilityAntares 230+ • Twin RD-181 Engines • Three Castor 30XL Solid Motors Second Stage • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-18 S.S. Sally Ride (CRS-18) • 166 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Birds-5 • TAKA (Japan) • PEARLAFRICASAT-1 (Uganda) • ZIMSAT-1 (Zimbabwe) • Spaceflight MDS-2 SpaceTuna1Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Berthed 163 days • Press KitFCCAdvisory

NASA SpaceX CRS-25 to International Space Station (ISS)

 

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1067.5 Flight 5 • A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Cargo Dragon C208.3 Flight 3 • 37 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 45 • Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) Earth Venture-Instrument (EVI-4)NanoracksExpedition 67Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 34 days • FCCAdvisory

NASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE Final HyperCurie Burn to the Moon

 

Lunar Photon Explorer | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE)NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP)NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Terran OrbitalAdvanced SpaceStellar ExplorationLow-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon | ExplorerPress Kit

NASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE CubeSat to the Moon

 

Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Lunar Photon Explorer | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE)NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP)NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Terran OrbitalAdvanced SpaceStellar ExplorationLow-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon | ExplorerPress Kit

NASA Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Uncrewed to International Space Station (ISS)

 

Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United Launch Alliance (ULA) 150th Mission • Atlas V N22 | RD-180 Engine | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Centaur Second Stage | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10A-4-2 Engines • Boeing Crew Space Transportation CST-100 Starliner • Orbital Flight Test (OFT) • 6 days • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 5 days • Advisory

NASA ULA Atlas V NOAA GOES-T (GOES-18)

 

Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United States Space Force (USSF)United Launch Alliance (ULA) • AV-095 Atlas V 541 Beast | RD-180 Engine | Four Northrop Grumman GEM-63 Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Centaur Second Stage | Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1 Engine • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NEDIS) | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) R SeriesLockheed Martin GOES-R SeriesGeostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)

NASA Cygnus NG-17 S.S. Piers Sellers (CRS-17) to International Space Station (ISS)

 

Launch Complex 0 Pad A (LP-0A) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight FacilityAntares 230+ • Twin RD-181 Engines • Three Castor 30XL Solid Motors Second Stage • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-17 S.S. Piers Sellers (CRS-17)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 44 • NanoracksLow Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)Press Kit

NASA / CSA / ESA Ariane 5 James Webb Space Telescope VA256

 

Ariane Launch Complex | Ensemble de Lancement Ariane 3 (ELA-3) • Guiana Space Centre | Centre spatial guyanais (CSG) • French Guiana • Arianespace Ariane 5 Flight VA256 • European Space Agency (ESA) Ariane 5 ECA • ECA+ (Evolved Cryogenic, model A) • Canadian Space Agency (CSA)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2)

NASA SpaceX CRS-24 to International Space Station (ISS)

 

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1069.1 First Flight • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Cargo Dragon C209.2 Flight 2 • 34 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 38 • Montana State University (MSU) Radiation Tolerant Computer (RadPC-AI)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 32 days

NASA SpaceX DART

 

Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)NASA Launch Services Program (LSP)NASA Planetary DefenseFalcon 9 Block 5 B1063.3 Flight 3 Reuseable • Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Johns Hopkins Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)Italian space agency Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids (LICIACube) • Heliocentric Orbit • 65803 Didymos & Dimorphos Binary Asteroid

USSF ULA Atlas V STP-3 (STPSat-6 / LDPE-1)

 

Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United States Space Force (USSF)United Launch Alliance (ULA) • AV-093 Atlas V 551 Bruiser | RD-180 Engine | Five Northrop Grumman GEM-63 Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Centaur Second Stage | Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1 Engine • Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program 3 (STP-3) • Northrop Grumman STPSat-6 & LDPE-1National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)NNSA Space Atmospheric Burst Reporting System 3 (SABRS-3)NASA Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD)Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO)

Schedule of Upcoming NASA Rocket Launches to Space, Livestreams & Events

All National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) dates are estimates based on the latest available information and may change
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DateMissionLivestreamNotes
2024-04-28 17:05 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-30 Undocking From International Space Station (ISS)2024-04-28 16:45 UTCNASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 35 of 36 days • Cargo Dragon C209.4 Flight 4 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2024-04-29 TBC UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-30 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Cargo Dragon C209.4 Flight 4 • 36 of 39 days • Shannon (GO Navigator) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)
2024-05-02 11:45 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-8 Dragon Relocation on the International Space Station (ISS)2024-05-02 11:30 UTCCrew Dragon C206.5 Endeavour Flight 5 • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 71 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 53 days • SpaceX Crew Dragon ISS Docking Simulator
2024-05-07 02:34 UTCNASA Boeing Starliner CFT to International Space Station (ISS)Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United Launch Alliance (ULA)Atlas V N22 | RD-180 Engine | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Centaur Second Stage | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10A-4-2 Engines • Boeing Crew Space Transportation CST-100 StarlinerCrew Flight Test (CFT)NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)FCC
MayNASA Rocket Lab PREFIRE-1Launch Complex 1 Pad A (LC-1A) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR)NASA Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Mission 1 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
MayNASA Rocket Lab PREFIRE-2Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Mission 2 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2024NASA ISRO LVM2 NISARSatish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) Second Launch Pad (SLP) | Sriharikota | India • Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark II (GSLV Mk 2 / LVM2) F15 • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR)Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous Orbit
2024NASA Firefly Alpha FLTA005 VCLS-2 Smallsat Rideshare (ELaNa 43)Space Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)Firefly Alpha RocketNASA Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) Demo 2 • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 43 • FLTA005 VCLS DEMO 2Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
NET 2024-06-15 TBC UTCESA Ariane 6 Maiden FlightAriane Launch Complex | Ensemble de Lancement Ariane 4 (ELA-4) • Guiana Space Centre | Centre spatial guyanais (CSG) • French Guiana • Maiden Flight Arianespace Ariane 6European Space Agency (ESA) Ariane 6 • NASA CUbesat Radio Interferometry Experiment (CURIE) • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2024-06-25 TBC UTCNASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy NOAA GOES-U (GOES-19)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)United States Space Force (USSF)Falcon Heavy TBC Expendable Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster | Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • TBC Reusable Side Booster | Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NEDIS) | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) R SeriesNASA GOES NetworkLockheed Martin GOES-R SeriesGeostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
JuneNASA ULA Vulcan Centaur (Cert-2) Sierra Space Dream Chaser Demo-1 Cargo to International Space Station (ISS)Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United Launch Alliance (ULA) • Certification-2 Vulcan Centaur VC4L | Twin Blue Origin BE-4 Engines | Four Northrop Grumman GEM-63XL Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-X Engines • Sierra Space Dream Chaser DC-101 Tenacity • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)Press Kit
2024NASA SpaceX Cygnus NG-21 (CRS-21) to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-21 (CRS-21) • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)
Mid 2024NASA Boeing Starliner-1 to International Space Station (ISS)Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United Launch Alliance (ULA)Atlas V N22 | RD-180 Engine | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Centaur Second Stage | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10A-4-2 Engines • Boeing Crew Space Transportation CST-100 StarlinerNASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)
AugustNASA ESCAPADE New GlennLaunch Complex 16 (LC-36) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) | Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) • Blue Origin New Glenn Reusable | Seven BE-4 Engines • Second Stage | Three BE-3U Upper Stage Engines • Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE)Rocket Lab ESCAPADE | Twin Photon Explorer Spacecraft | HyperCurie Engine • Mars | Explorer
2024-09-11 12:00 UTCNASA Rocket Lab LOXSATLaunch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Photon Upper Stage | Curie EngineNASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)NASA Tipping Point ProgramEta Space LOXSATLow Earth Orbit (LEO)
SeptemberNASA SpaceX Crew-9 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • Crew Dragon TBC • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)
2024NASA Firefly Blue Ghost M1 Lunar Lander to the MoonSpace Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)Italian space agency Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)Firefly Blue Ghost • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • NASA Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE)Montana State University (MSU) Radiation Tolerant Computer (RadPC-Lunar)Moon | Explorer
OctoberNASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy Europa ClipperLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)NASA Launch Services Program (LSP)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) [JHUAPL]Falcon Heavy TBC Expendable Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Europa
NovemberNASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy Griffin & VIPER Rover to the Lunar South PoleLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon Heavy TBC Expendable Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)Astrobotic Griffin Lunar LanderNASA Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer
2024NASA SpaceX Cygnus NG-22 (CRS-22) to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-22 (CRS-22) • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)
2024NASA SpaceX IM-2 PRIME-1 & Lunar Trailblazer Nova-C Lunar LanderTBC Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD)Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • AstroForge Odin (Brokkr-2) | OrbAstro ORB-50NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander | µNova (Micro Nova) HopperPolar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1)California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Lunar TrailblazerLunar Outpost Lunar Voyage 1 | Lunar Outpost Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP)International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) ILO-1Moon | Explorer
February 2025NASA SpaceX IMAP SWFO-L1 GLIDE RideshareTBC Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP)NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) | Princeton UniversityNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NEDIS) Space Weather Follow On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) | Ball Aerospace | Rocket LabNASA Carruthers Geocorona Observatory | GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere) | Rocket Lab Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1)
2025NASA SpaceX IM-3 (CP-11) Nova-C Lunar LanderTBC Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD)Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) | NASA Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) CP-11Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander • NASA Lunar Vertex (LVx) | Lunar Outpost Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) [JHUAPL]Four Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) Lunar RoversMoon | ExplorerReiner Gamma Swirl
NET 2025-04-13 TBC UTCNASA SpaceX TRACERSSpace Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR)NASA Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) | University of Iowa Physics and AstronomyLow Earth Orbit (LEO)
NET April 2025NASA SpaceX SPHEREx & PUNCHSpace Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)NASA JPL Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) SPHERExNASA Goddard Small Explorers (SMEX)NASA Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) | Southwest Research Institute (SWRI)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
NET June 2025NASA Cygnus NG-23 (CRS-23) to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 0 Pad A (LP-0A) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Maiden Flight Antares 330 • Seven Firefly Miranda Engines • Three Castor 30XL Solid Motors Second Stage • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-23 (CRS-23) • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)
NET September 2025NASA Artemis II SLS & Crewed Orion Around the MoonLaunch Complex 39B (LC-39B) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 2Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-2 Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service ModuleOrion • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer
November 2025NASA SpaceX Sentinel-6BSpace Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)Falcon 9 Block 5 TBC Reuseable • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Sentinel-6BLow Earth Orbit (LEO)
NET 2025NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy PPE & HALO to Lunar GatewayLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon Heavy TBC Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Artemis Lunar GatewayMaxar Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) • Northrop Grumman Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer
NET 2025NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy GLS-1 to Lunar GatewayLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon Heavy TBC Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • Lunar Cargo Dragon XL • NASA Artemis Lunar Gateway | NASA Gateway Logistics Services (GLS) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer
2026NASA SpaceX Team Draper CP-12 ispace APEX Lunar LanderLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)NASA Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) CP-12Draper CP-12General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS)Karman Systimaispace APEX 1.0 Lunar LanderMoon | ExplorerSchrödinger Basin
2026NASA Firefly Blue Ghost M2 Lunar Lander to the MoonSpace Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)Firefly Blue Ghost • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Lunar Surface Electromagnetic Experiment at Night (LuSEE-Night)ESA Lunar Pathfinder | SSTL Lunar PathfinderMoon | Explorer
September 2026NASA Artemis III SLS & Crewed Orion to the MoonLaunch Complex 39B (LC-39B) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 3Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-2 Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service ModuleOrion • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer
October 2026NASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy NGRST Space TelescopeLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon Heavy TBC Core • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • TBC Reusable Side Booster • TBC Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) • NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (NGRST) Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2)
December 2027NASA VERITAS to VenusTBD • NASA Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy (VERITAS) | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)Venus | Explorer
2027NASA JPSS-3 (NOAA-22)TBD • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
September 2028NASA Artemis IIII SLS & Crewed Orion to Lunar Gateway & MoonLaunch Complex 39B (LC-39B) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 4Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-3 Hydrolox (5.7:1) Exploration Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service ModuleOrion • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • NASA Artemis Lunar GatewayMoon | Explorer

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Recent NASA Rocket Launches to Space & Events

DateMissionNotes
2024-04-23 22:32 UTCRocket Lab Beginning Of The Swarm NeonSat-1 NASA ACS3 RideshareLaunch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick StageSouth Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) NeonSat-1NASA Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Press Kit
2024-04-08 18:18 UTCTotal Solar EclipseNASA Science LiveTotal Solar Eclipse • Totality 4:28 Minutes • Visible across North America
2024-04-06 07:17 UTCRoscosmos Soyuz MS-24 (70S) Crew Return & LandingLow Earth Orbit (LEO) • Soyuz MS 755 TBC • 204 days • Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
2024-03-24 19:00 UTCNSF Live Weekly Ingenuity Chief Engineer Intrepid Museum Astro LiveNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | Ingenuity Mars Helicopter • NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Engineer Travis Brown • Intrepid Museum Astro Live
2024-03-23 11:16 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-30 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Cargo Dragon C209.4 Flight 4 • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 34 days
2024-03-21 20:55 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-30 to International Space Station (ISS)Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1080.6 Flight 6 Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • Cargo Dragon C209.4 Flight 4 • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 51 • Advisory
2024-03-12 09:47 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-7 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C206.4 Endeavour Flight 4 • 199 days • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 70
2024-03-11 15:20 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-7 Undocking from International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 70 • International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 197 days • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C210.3 Endurance Flight 3
2024-03-05 07:28 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-8 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Crew Dragon C206.5 Endeavour Flight 5 • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 71 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 53 days • Follow DragonSpaceX Crew Dragon ISS Docking Simulator
2024-03-04 03:53 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-8 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1083.1 First Flight Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • Crew Dragon C206.5 Endeavour Flight 5 • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 71 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)Advisory
2024-02-22 23:24 UTCNASA Intuitive Machines IM-1 Nova-C Odysseus Lunar LandingNASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) | TO2-IMIntuitive Machines Nova-C Odysseus Lunar LanderInternational Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) ILO-X • Malapert A | Moon | ExplorerPress Kit
2024-02-15 06:05 UTCNASA SpaceX IM-1 Nova-C Lunar LanderLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1060.18 Flight 18 Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) | TO2-IMIntuitive Machines Nova-C Odysseus Lunar LanderInternational Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) ILO-X • Malapert A | Moon | ExplorerPress KitAdvisory
2024-02-08 06:33 UTCNASA SpaceX PACESpace Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1081.4 Flight 4 • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE)Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous OrbitAdvisory
2024-02-01 09:59 UTCNASA Cygnus NG-20 (CRS-20) Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-20 S.S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson (CRS-20)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Berthed 86 days
2024-01-30 17:07 UTCNASA SpaceX Cygnus NG-20 (CRS-20) to International Space Station (ISS)Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1077.10 Flight 10 Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-20 S.S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson (CRS-20)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)Advisory
2024-01-08 07:18 UTCNASA ULA Vulcan Centaur Maiden Flight (Cert-1) Peregrine Lunar LanderSpace Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United Launch Alliance (ULA) • Certification-1 Maiden Flight Vulcan Centaur VC2S | Twin Blue Origin BE-4 Engines | Two Northrop Grumman GEM-63XL Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-X Engines • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Celestis Enterprise Memorial Spaceflight Solar Orbit • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Celestis Tranquility Memorial SpaceflightNASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) | TO2-ABAstrobotic Peregrine Lunar Lander Anomaly • Sinus Viscositatis | Gruithuisen Domes | Moon | ExplorerPress KitPress KitAdvisory
2023-12-22 17:33 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-29 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Cargo Dragon C211.2 Flight 2 • 43 days • Shannon (GO Navigator) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)
2023-12-22 13:06 UTCNASA Cygnus NG-19 S.S. Laurel Clark (CRS-19) Departure from International Space Station (ISS)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)International Space Station (ISS)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-19 S.S. Laurel Clark (CRS-19) • Berthed 140 days • NASA Spacecraft Fire Safety Demonstration (Saffire) VI • Deorbit & Destructive Re-Entry • 156 days
2023-12-21 22:05 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-29 Undocking From International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 40 days • Cargo Dragon C211.2 Flight 2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2023-11-11 10:10 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-29 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Cargo Dragon C211.2 Flight 2 • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 40 days
2023-11-10 01:28 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-29 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1081.2 Flight 2 Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • Cargo Dragon C211.2 Flight 2 • 43 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 40 days • Advisory
2023-11-01 12:05 UTCNASA Loral O’Hara & ESA Andreas Mogensen EVA-89 Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 70 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Extravehicular Activity (EVA-89) • 6 hours 42 minutes
2023-10-14 18:00 UTCRing of Fire Annular Solar EclipseNASA Science LiveAnnular Solar Eclipse • Totality 5:17 Minutes • Visible in parts of North, Central & South America
2023-10-13 14:19 UTCNASA SpaceX Falcon Heavy ASU PsycheLaunch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)NASA Launch Services Program (LSP)NASA Discovery ProgramFalcon Heavy B1079.1 First Flight Expendable Core • B1064.4 Flight 4 Reusable Side Booster | Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • B1065.4 Flight 4 Reusable Side Booster | Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) • Heliocentric Orbit • Heliocentric Orbit • Psyche | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | Mission To PsycheDeep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)16 Psyche M-Type AsteroidAdvisory
2023-09-27 11:17 UTCRoscosmos Soyuz MS-23 (69S) Crew Return & LandingLow Earth Orbit (LEO) • Soyuz MS 754 • 215 days • Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
2023-09-24 14:52 UTCNASA OSIRIS-REx Flyby of the Earth Sample Return & LandingNear Earth Asteroid 101955 BennuNASA Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) | OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission • Two Sun Orbits • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Release | Tracker | Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) Landing • OSIRS Apophis Explorer (OSIRIS-APEX) • 2787 of 5147 days • Near Earth Asteroid 99942 ApophisOSIRIS-REx Tracker
2023-09-06 23:42 UTCJAXA H-IIA F47 XRISM SLIM (Moon Sniper) Lunar LanderLaunch Pad 1 (LA-Y1) • Yoshinobu Launch Complex (LC-Y) • Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) | Japan • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) • Flight 47 JAXA H2A (H-IIA) 202 | Twin Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB-A) | Twin Solid Strap-On Boosters (SSB) • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H-IIA (H2A)JAXA X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) | Resolve (Soft X-ray Spectrometer) | Xtend (Soft X-ray Imager)NASA XRISMLow Earth Orbit (LEO) • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | ExplorerSmart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) | Lunar Excursion Vehicle 1 (LEV-1) | SORA-Q Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2)Press KitPress Kit
2023-09-04 04:17 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-6 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C206.4 Endeavour Flight 4 • 333 days • Megan (GO Searcher) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 69
2023-09-03 11:05 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-6 Undocking from International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 69International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 332 days • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C206.4 Endeavour Flight 4
2023-08-27 12:39 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-7 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Crew Dragon C210.3 Endurance Flight 3 • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 70 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 197 days • Follow DragonSpaceX Crew Dragon ISS Docking Simulator
2023-08-26 07:27 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-7 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1081.1 First Flight Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) • Crew Dragon C210.3 Endurance Flight 3 | 199 days • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 70 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)Advisory
2023-08-04 09:52 UTCNASA Cygnus NG-19 S.S. Laurel Clark (CRS-19) Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-19 S.S. Laurel Clark (CRS-19)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Berthed 140 days
2023-08-02 12:28 UTCNASA Cygnus NG-19 S.S. Laurel Clark (CRS-19) to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 0 Pad A (LP-0A) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight Facility • Final Flight Antares 230+ • Twin RD-181 Engines • Three Castor 30XL Solid Motors Second Stage • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-19 S.S. Laurel Clark (CRS-19) • 156 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Berthed 140 days • Press KitAdvisory
2023-07-18 01:27 UTCNASA Rocket Lab Baby Come Back Starling Smallsat RideshareLaunch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick StageNASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) | 4 NASA Starling (Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde)Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) DEFIANT | Exolaunch | Telesat LEO 3 Demo | 2 Spire Global Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occulation (GNSS-RO)Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) | Heliosynchronous OrbitPress KitAdvisory
2023-06-30 14:30 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-28 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Cargo Dragon C208.4 Flight 4 • 27 days • Shannon (GO Navigator) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)
2023-06-29 16:30 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-28 Undocking From International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 23 days • Cargo Dragon C208.4 Flight 4 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2023-06-15 12:42 UTCNASA Steve Bowen & Woody Hoburg EVA-88 Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 69Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Extravehicular Activity (EVA-88) • 5 hours 35 minutes
2023-06-09 13:25 UTCNASA Steve Bowen & Woody Hoburg EVA-87 Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 69Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Extravehicular Activity (EVA-87) • 6 hours 3 minutes
2023-06-06 09:54 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-28 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Cargo Dragon C208.4 Flight 4 • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 23 days
2023-06-05 15:47 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-28 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1077.5 Flight 5 Reuseable • A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Cargo Dragon C208.4 Flight 4 • 27 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)Advisory
2023-05-26 03:46 UTCNASA Rocket Lab Coming to a Storm Near You TROPICS-3Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford • NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL)Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT)NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Mission 2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Press KitAdvisory
2023-05-08 01:00 UTCNASA Rocket Lab Rocket Like a Hurricane TROPICS-2Launch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Curie Kick StageNASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) | Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT)NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Mission 1 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Press KitAdvisory
2023-05-06 11:23 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-6 Dragon Relocation on the International Space Station (ISS)Crew Dragon C206.4 Endeavour Flight 4 • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 69Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 421 days • SpaceX Crew Dragon ISS Docking Simulator
2023-04-28 13:11 UTCNASA Steve Bowen & Sultan Alneyadi (UAE) EVA-86 Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 69Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Extravehicular Activity (EVA-86) • 7 hours 1 minute
2023-04-24 13:00 UTCNASA Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) Spring MeetingNASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) [JHUAPL] Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) • Cislunar Space | Moon | Explorer
2023-04-21 11:22 UTCNASA Cygnus NG-18 S.S. Sally Ride (CRS-18) Departure from International Space Station (ISS)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)International Space Station (ISS)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-18 S.S. Sally Ride (CRS-18) • Berthed 163 days • Deorbit & Destructive Re-Entry • 166 days
2023-04-15 20:58 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-27 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Cargo Dragon C209.3 Flight 3 • 32 days • Shannon (GO Navigator) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)
2023-04-15 15:05 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-27 Undocking From International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 30 days • Cargo Dragon C209.3 Flight 3 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2023-04-07 04:30 UTCSpaceX Intelsat 40e (IS-40e) NASA TEMPOSpace Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1076.4 Flight 4 • A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Intelsat 40eMaxar Technologies 1300-Class Platform • Hosted Payload NASA Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) | Ball Aerospace | Smithsonian Astrophysical ObservatoryGeosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)Advisory
2023-04-06 09:22 UTCNASA Soyuz MS-23 (69S) Relocation on the International Space Station (ISS)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Soyuz MS 752 • Docked 212 days
2023-03-16 11:31 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-27 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Cargo Dragon C209.3 Flight 3 • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 30 days
2023-03-15 00:30 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-27 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1073.7 Flight 7 Reuseable • A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Cargo Dragon C209.3 Flight 3 • 32 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 50 • Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program Houston 9 (STP-H9)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)Advisory
2023-03-12 02:02 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-5 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C210.2 Endurance Flight 2 • 157 days • Shannon (GO Navigator) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 68
2023-03-11 07:20 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-5 Undocking from International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 68International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 155 days • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C210.2 Endurance Flight 2
2023-03-03 06:40 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-6 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Crew Dragon C206.4 Endeavour Flight 4 • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 69Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 184 days • SpaceX Crew Dragon ISS Docking Simulator
2023-03-02 05:34 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-6 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1078.1 First Flight Reuseable • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Crew Dragon C206.4 Endeavour Flight 4 • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 69Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 184 days • Press KitFCCAdvisory
2023-02-02 12:45 UTCNASA Nicole Mann & Koichi Wakata (JAXA) EVA-85 Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 68Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Extravehicular Activity (EVA-85) • 6 hours 41 minutes
2023-01-20 13:14 UTCNASA Nicole Mann & Koichi Wakata (JAXA) EVA-84 Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 68Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Extravehicular Activity (EVA-84) • 7 hours 21 minutes
2023-01-11 10:19 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-26 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Cargo Dragon C211.1 First Flight • 46 days • Megan (GO Searcher) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)
2023-01-09 22:05 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-26 Undocking From International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 43 days • Cargo Dragon C211.1 First Flight • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2022-12-22 13:19 UTCNASA Josh Cassada & Frank Rubio EVA-83 Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 68Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Extravehicular Activity (EVA-83) • 7 hours 8 minutes
2022-12-16 16:46 UTCNASA SpaceX SWOTSpace Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)French space agency Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1071.6 Flight 6 Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) • NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2022-12-11 17:40 UTCNASA Artemis I Uncrewed Orion SplashdownMoon | Explorer • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Orion • 25 days • Lockheed Martin Orion Skip ManeuverNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 1Realtime TrackingPress Kit
2022-12-05 16:43 UTCNASA Artemis I Uncrewed Orion Return Flyby of the MoonNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 1Orion • 25 days • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Moon | ExplorerRealtime TrackingPress Kit
2022-12-03 12:16 UTCNASA Josh Cassada & Frank Rubio EVA-82 Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 68Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Extravehicular Activity (EVA-82) • 7 hours 5 minutes
2022-12-01 21:53 UTCNASA Artemis I Uncrewed Orion DRO Exit Burn Around the MoonNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 1Orion • 25 days • Moon | Explorer • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Realtime TrackingPress Kit
2022-11-27 12:39 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-26 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Cargo Dragon C211.1 First Flight • 46 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 43 days
2022-11-26 19:20 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-26 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1076.1 First Flight Reuseable • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Cargo Dragon C211.1 First Flight • 46 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 49 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 43 days • Advisory
2022-11-25 21:52 UTCNASA Artemis I Uncrewed Orion DRO Insertion Burn Around the MoonNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 1Orion • 25 days • Moon | Explorer • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Realtime TrackingPress Kit
2022-11-21 12:44 UTCNASA Artemis I Uncrewed Orion Flyby of the MoonNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 1Orion • 25 days • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • Moon | Explorer • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Realtime TrackingPress Kit
2022-11-20 20:00 UTCNSF Live Weekly NASA Tech Demos Team Intrepid MuseumNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF)NASA Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID)Psyche | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | Mission To Psyche • NASA Tech Demos Team • Intrepid Museum
2022-11-16 06:47 UTCNASA Artemis I SLS & Uncrewed Orion Around the MoonLaunch Complex 39B (LC-39B) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Artemis 1Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10B-2 Upper Stage • ESA Orion European Service ModuleOrion • 25 days • Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) • BioSentinelSWRI CubeSat to Study Solar Particles (CuSP)ASU Luna Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map)Lunar IceCubeTerran Orbital Lunar InfraRed Imaging (LunIR)JAXA EQUULEUSJAXA OMOTENASHI • Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) • Moon | ExplorerLaunch WindowsRealtime TrackingPress KitAdvisory
2022-11-15 14:14 UTCNASA Josh Cassada & Frank Rubio EVA-81 Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 68Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Extravehicular Activity (EVA-81) • 7 hours 11 minutes
2022-11-10 09:49 UTCNASA ULA Atlas V JPSS-2 (NOAA-21) & LOFTIDSpace Launch Complex 3 East (SLC-3E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)United Launch Alliance (ULA)Atlas V 401 Slick | RD-180 Engine | Centaur Second Stage | Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1 Engine • NASA Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
2022-11-09 08:37 UTCNASA Cygnus NG-18 S.S. Sally Ride (CRS-18) Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-18 S.S. Sally Ride (CRS-18)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Berthed 163 days
2022-11-08 10:17 UTCBlood Moon Total Lunar EclipseNASA Science LiveTotal Lunar Eclipse • Totality 85 Minutes • Visible in North & Central America, Western Venezuela & Peru, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand
2022-11-07 10:32 UTCNASA Cygnus NG-18 S.S. Sally Ride (CRS-18) to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 0 Pad A (LP-0A) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight FacilityAntares 230+ • Twin RD-181 Engines • Three Castor 30XL Solid Motors Second Stage • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-18 S.S. Sally Ride (CRS-18) • 166 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Birds-5 • TAKA (Japan) • PEARLAFRICASAT-1 (Uganda) • ZIMSAT-1 (Zimbabwe) • Spaceflight MDS-2 SpaceTuna1Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Berthed 163 days • Press KitFCCAdvisory
2023-01-15 20:00 UTCNSF Live Weekly SWOT Team Interview Intrepid Museum Astro LiveNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)Intrepid Museum Astro Live
2022-10-14 20:55 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-4 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C212.1 Freedom First Flight • 171 days • Megan (GO Searcher) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 68
2022-10-14 14:05 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-4 Undocking from International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 68International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 170 days • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C212.1 Freedom First Flight
2022-10-06 21:01 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-5 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Crew Dragon C210.2 Endurance Flight 2 • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 68Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 155 days • SpaceX Crew Dragon ISS Docking Simulator
2022-10-05 16:00 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-5 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1077.1 First Flight Reuseable • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Crew Dragon C210.2 Endurance Flight 2 • 157 days • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 68Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 155 days • Press KitFCCAdvisory
2022-09-30 22:30 UTCNSF Live SpecialNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF) • Fred Haise talks Apollo 13 • Intrepid Museum
2022-09-29 10:57 UTCRoscosmos Soyuz MS-21 (67S) Crew Return & LandingLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Expedition 66 | Expedition 67 • Soyuz MS 750 Korolyov • 195 days • Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
2022-09-29 07:34 UTCRoscosmos Soyuz MS-21 (67S) Crew Undocking from International Space Station (ISS)International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 66 | Expedition 67 • Soyuz MS 750 Korolyov • Docked 770 days • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2022-09-26 23:14 UTCNASA DART Impact into DimorphosNASA Planetary DefenseItalian space agency Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids (LICIACube)Johns Hopkins Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)65803 Didymos & Dimorphos Binary Asteroid
2022-09-21 11:30 UTCNASA Artemis 1 Cryogenic Demonstration TestLaunch Complex 39B (LC-39B) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 • Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 Hydrolox (6:1) Engines • Two Northrop Grumman Five Segment Booster (FSB-1) SLS Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) • Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10B-2 Upper Stage • Artemis 1
2022-08-21 19:00 UTCNSF Live Weekly Intrepid MuseumNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF)James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Images with JWST Team • Intrepid Museum
2022-08-20 18:53 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-25 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Cargo Dragon C208.3 Flight 3 • 37 days • Megan (GO Searcher) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)
2022-08-19 15:05 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-25 Undocking From International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 34 days • Cargo Dragon C208.3 Flight 3 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2022-07-24 19:00 UTCNSF Live Weekly Intrepid MuseumNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF) • Decommissioning the Space Shuttle 10 Year Anniversary • Intrepid Museum
2022-07-16 15:21 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-25 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Cargo Dragon C208.3 Flight 3 • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)Expedition 67Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 34 days
2022-07-15 00:44 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-25 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1067.5 Flight 5 • A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Cargo Dragon C208.3 Flight 3 • 37 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 45 • Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) Earth Venture-Instrument (EVI-4)NanoracksExpedition 67Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 34 days • FCCAdvisory
2022-07-04 06:56 UTCNASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE Final HyperCurie Burn to the MoonLunar Photon Explorer | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE)NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP)NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Terran OrbitalAdvanced SpaceStellar ExplorationLow-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon | ExplorerPress Kit
2022-06-28 11:05 UTCNASA Cygnus NG-17 S.S. Piers Sellers (CRS-17) Departure from International Space Station (ISS)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)International Space Station (ISS)Expedition 67Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-17 S.S. Piers Sellers (CRS-17) • Berthed 127 days • NanoracksNanosat Atmospheric Chemistry Hyperspectral Observation System (NACHOS) • Deorbit & Destructive Re-Entry • 129 days
2022-06-28 09:55 UTCNASA Rocket Lab CAPSTONE CubeSat to the MoonLaunch Complex 1 Pad B (LC-1B) | Māhia Peninsula New ZealandElectron Rocket | Nine Rutherford LOX / Kerosene (Kerolox) Electric Pump Fed Engines | Second Stage Single Vacuum Rutherford | Lunar Photon Explorer | HyperCurie Engine • NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE)NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP)NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Terran OrbitalAdvanced SpaceStellar ExplorationLow-Energy Ballistic Lunar Transfer (BLT) • Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) • Moon | ExplorerPress Kit
2022-06-26 19:00 UTCNSF Live WeeklyNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF) • Astronauts Chris Hadfield and Cady Coleman talk making Music in Space
2022-06-12 16:43 UTCNASA Astra LV0010 TROPICS-1Space Launch Complex 46 (SLC-46) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)Astra Rocket 3.3Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL)Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT)NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) • Second Stage Anomaly • Advisory
2022-05-25 22:49 UTCNASA Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Return & LandingLow Earth Orbit (LEO) • 6 days • Orbital Flight Test (OFT) • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Boeing Crew Space Transportation CST-100 StarlinerWhite Sands Space Harbor (WSSH)
2022-05-25 18:36 UTCNASA Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Undocking from International Space Station (ISS)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 5 days • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Orbital Flight Test (OFT) • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Boeing Crew Space Transportation CST-100 Starliner
2022-05-22 19:00 UTCNSF Live Weekly Intrepid MuseumNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF) • Designing Space Habitats with NASA Engineers • Intrepid Museum
2022-05-21 00:28 UTCNASA Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Boeing Crew Space Transportation CST-100 Starliner • Orbital Flight Test (OFT) • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 5 days
2022-05-19 22:54 UTCNASA Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Uncrewed to International Space Station (ISS)Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United Launch Alliance (ULA) 150th Mission • Atlas V N22 | RD-180 Engine | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Centaur Second Stage | Twin Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10A-4-2 Engines • Boeing Crew Space Transportation CST-100 Starliner • Orbital Flight Test (OFT) • 6 days • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 5 days • Advisory
2022-05-16 04:12 UTCSuper Flower Blood Moon Total Lunar EclipseNASA Science LiveSuper Blood MoonTotal Lunar Eclipse • Totality 84 Minutes • Visible in Americas, Europe & parts of Africa
2022-05-06 04:43 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-3 Return & Nighttime SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C210.1 Endurance First Flight • 176 days • Shannon (GO Navigator) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 67
2022-05-05 05:20 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-3 Undocking from International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 67International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 174 days • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C210.1 Endurance First Flight
2022-04-27 23:37 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-4 Approach & Docking to International Space Station (ISS)Crew Dragon C212.1 Freedom First Flight • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 68Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 170 days
2022-04-27 07:52 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-4 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1067.4 Flight 4 Reuseable • A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Crew Dragon C212.1 Freedom First Flight • 171 days • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) | Expedition 68Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 170 days • FCC
2022-03-20 19:00 UTCNSF Live Weekly Intrepid MuseumNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF) • Women in Space * Astronauts Nicole Stott and Dr. Sian Proctor • Intrepid Museum
2022-03-01 21:38 UTCNASA ULA Atlas V NOAA GOES-T (GOES-18)Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United States Space Force (USSF)United Launch Alliance (ULA) • AV-095 Atlas V 541 Beast | RD-180 Engine | Four Northrop Grumman GEM-63 Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Centaur Second Stage | Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1 Engine • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NEDIS) | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) R SeriesLockheed Martin GOES-R SeriesGeostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
2022-02-19 17:40 UTCNASA Cygnus NG-17 S.S. Piers Sellers (CRS-17) to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 0 Pad A (LP-0A) Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) | NASA Wallops Flight FacilityAntares 230+ • Twin RD-181 Engines • Three Castor 30XL Solid Motors Second Stage • Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-17 S.S. Piers Sellers (CRS-17)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 44 • NanoracksLow Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS)Press Kit
2022-02-17 22:00 UTCNSF Live Weekly Intrepid MuseumNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF) • NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team Lead Teddy Tzanetos • Intrepid Museum
2022-01-24 21:05 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-24 Return & SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Cargo Dragon C209.2 Flight 2 • 34 days • Megan (GO Searcher) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)
2022-01-23 15:40 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-24 Undocking From International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 32 days • Cargo Dragon C209.2 Flight 2 • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
2022-01-20 22:00 UTCNSF Live Weekly Intrepid MuseumNASASpaceFlight.com (NSF) • NASA Lead Systems Engineer Yves Lamothe • ArtemisIntrepid Museum
2021-12-25 12:20 UTCNASA / CSA / ESA Ariane 5 James Webb Space Telescope VA256Ariane Launch Complex | Ensemble de Lancement Ariane 3 (ELA-3) • Guiana Space Centre | Centre spatial guyanais (CSG) • French Guiana • Arianespace Ariane 5 Flight VA256 • European Space Agency (ESA) Ariane 5 ECA • ECA+ (Evolved Cryogenic, model A) • Canadian Space Agency (CSA)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2)
2021-12-21 10:07 UTCNASA SpaceX CRS-24 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1069.1 First Flight • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Cargo Dragon C209.2 Flight 2 • 34 days • NASA Commercial Resupply Service Phase 2 (CRS-2) • Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 38 • Montana State University (MSU) Radiation Tolerant Computer (RadPC-AI)Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 32 days
2021-11-24 06:21 UTCNASA SpaceX DARTSpace Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)NASA Launch Services Program (LSP)NASA Planetary DefenseFalcon 9 Block 5 B1063.3 Flight 3 Reuseable • Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Johns Hopkins Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)Italian space agency Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids (LICIACube) • Heliocentric Orbit • 65803 Didymos & Dimorphos Binary Asteroid
2021-11-11 02:03 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-3 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1067.2 Flight 2 Reuseable • A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Crew Dragon C210.1 Endurance First Flight • 176 days • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Expedition 66Expedition 67Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 174 days
2021-07-12 21:38 UTCUSSF ULA Atlas V STP-3 (STPSat-6 / LDPE-1)Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)United States Space Force (USSF)United Launch Alliance (ULA) • AV-093 Atlas V 551 Bruiser | RD-180 Engine | Five Northrop Grumman GEM-63 Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) | Centaur Second Stage | Single Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1 Engine • Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program 3 (STP-3) • Northrop Grumman STPSat-6 & LDPE-1National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)NNSA Space Atmospheric Burst Reporting System 3 (SABRS-3)NASA Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD)Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO)
2021-11-09 03:33 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-2 Return & Nighttime SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C206.2 Endeavour Flight 2 • 200 days • Shannon (GO Navigator) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Expedition 66
2021-11-08 19:05 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-2 Undocking from International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Expedition 66International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 198 days • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C206.2 Endeavour Flight 2
2021-05-02 06:56 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-1 Return & Nighttime SplashdownLow Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C207.1 Resilience First Flight • 167 days • Shannon (GO Navigator) Recovery VesselNASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Expedition 65
2021-05-02 00:35 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-1 Undocking from International Space Station (ISS)NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Expedition 65International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 166 days • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)Crew Dragon C207.1 Resilience First Flight
2021-04-23 09:49 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-2 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1061.2 Flight 2 Reuseable • Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Crew Dragon C206.2 Endeavour Flight 2 • 200 days • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Expedition 65Expedition 66Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 198 days
2020-11-16 00:27 UTCNASA SpaceX Crew-1 to International Space Station (ISS)Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) | Kennedy Space Center (KSC)Falcon 9 Block 5 B1061.1 First Flight Reuseable • Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)Crew Dragon C207.1 Resilience First Flight • 167 days • NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP)Expedition 64Expedition 65Low Earth Orbit (LEO)International Space Station (ISS) • Docked 166 days

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