Rocket Launches in the United States
An up-to-date list of all 201 scheduled rocket launches in the United States, and a map of active launch sites.
Rocket Launch Sites in the United States
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Historic U.S. military rocket launch site, pivotal in space exploration and national security.
Kennedy Space Center
NASA's primary launch site for human spaceflight, housing iconic facilities and a rich space history.
Starbase
SpaceX's facility in Texas for developing and launching Starship rockets.
Corn Ranch
Spaceport in Texas, USA, operated by Blue Origin for New Shepard rocket launches and tests.
Vandenberg SFB
U.S. Space Force facility in California for spacecraft launches and missile testing.
Mojave Air and Space Port
A leading air launch facility for private spaceflight and aerospace research in Mojave, California.
Wallops Island
NASA rocket launch site for science and exploration missions, established in 1945 in Virginia.
Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska
Commercial and military spaceport in Alaska, supporting orbital and sub-orbital launches since 1998.
Spaceport America
Purpose-built commercial spaceport in New Mexico, supporting vertical and horizontal launches.
Upcoming the United States Launches
Success
22 Oct, 2:16pm
UTC
A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Launch success.
24 Oct, 1:30am
UTC
Second of two new-generation satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications to the Spanish government, its allies, and various international organizations.
Last Update: Delayed to October 23 LT.
25 Oct, 2:00pm
UTC
A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Now targeting Oct 25 at 14:00 UTC
26 Oct, 2:05pm
UTC
A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Now targeting Oct 26 at 14:05 UTC
27 Oct, 9:12pm
UTC
A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Now targeting Oct 27 at 21:12 UTC
28 Oct, 1:14pm
UTC
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: Oct 22, 7:00pm UTC
30 Oct, 8:06pm
UTC
A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Updated: Oct 22, 7:00pm UTC
4 Nov, 3:36am
UTC
The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.
Last Update: GO for launch, NET November 3 LT.
TBD
Nov 2025
Maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), a dual-spacecraft mission to study ion and sputtered escape from Mars. The spacecrafts' scientific goals are to understand the processes controlling the structure of Mars' hybrid magnetosphere and how it guides ion flows; understand how energy and momentum are transported from the solar wind through Mars' magnetosphere; and understand the processes controlling the flow of energy and matter into and out of the collisional atmosphere.
Last Update: NET November 9.
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Last Update: NET November 10.
TBD
Nov 2025
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (launched November 2020) and Sentinel-6B make up the Sentinel-6 mission, also known as Jason Continuity of Service (Jason-CS), which is a partnership between NASA, NOAA, ESA, and EUMETSAT. This mission continues the long-term global sea surface height data record begun by first Jason satellites in 1992.
Last Update: Reverted back to November 16.
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Last Update: Launch pad assigned.
TBD
Nov 2025
Ninth of ten GPS III missions.
Last Update: NET November.
TBD
Nov 2025
KOMPSAT-7 and 7A are the follow-up satellites of KOMPSAT-3A, whose mission is to provide high-resolution satellite images to satisfy South-Korea's governmental and institutional needs.
Last Update: NET November.
TBD
Nov 2025
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last Update: Reverted back to NET August TBD with lack of confirmation.
TBD
Nov 2025
NS-37 is the 16th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 37th in the New Shepard program's history.
Updated: Oct 22, 7:00pm UTC
First of six missions launched by the Space Development Agency for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Last Update: NET March 2025.
TBD
2025
This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a professionally trained commander alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station for a month.
Updated: Aug 23, 2:30am UTC
TBD
2025
HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission. The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).
Updated: Jun 13, 5:30pm UTC
Payload consists of a single 30 kg NASA payload to be delivered to a 500 km orbit with a 41 degrees inclination.
Last Update: Launch vehicle choice now uncertain with Relativity Space planning to retire Terran-1 immediately; may switch to Terran-R but launch would then be NET 2026.
Classified payload for the US Space Force
Last Update: NET early 2025.
TBD
2025
This is the 22nd flight of the Northrop Grumman's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 21st flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Last Update: Delayed until after NG-22 due to spacecraft damage during transport.
TBD
2025
Project Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude. 45 satellites will be carried on each Vulcan launch.
Last Update: NET late summer.
TBD
2025
Payload is a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle developed by by Australian company Hypersonix.
Last Update: Adding flight NET Q1 2025