Florida’s Space Coast reached double digits by hosting 10 orbital rocket launches during January — a speedy cadence that, if it continues, would easily surpass last year’s annual record of 93 orbital rocket liftoffs.
Will the 2025 launch total set another new record? Stay tuned. Crews at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station are gearing up for a busy February, primarily comprised of SpaceX Starlink internet satellite missions and the NASA-SpaceX Intuitive Machines moon lander mission.
Following are the latest missions coming up from the Cape. All launches are listed in Eastern Standard Time. But be aware: Dates and times routinely change for a wide variety of reasons.
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Tuesday, February 4: SpaceX Starlink 12-3
- Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift a payload of 21 Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit.
- Launch: 5:15 a.m. (delayed from Monday).
- Location: Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- Sonic booms: No.
- Trajectory: Southeast.
- Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
Tuesday, February 4: SpaceX WorldView Legion 5 and 6
- Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch Maxar Space Systems’ fifth and sixth WorldView Legion imagery satellites.
- Launch window: 6:07 p.m. to 7:07 p.m. (delayed from Monday).
- Location: Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
- Sonic booms: Yes.
- Trajectory: Northeast.
- Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
Friday, February 7: SpaceX Starlink
- Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift a payload of Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit, a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency navigational advisory shows.
- Launch window: 1:50 p.m. to 6:21 p.m.
- Location: Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- Sonic booms: No.
- Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
Wednesday, February 26: NASA-SpaceX Intuitive Machines lander
- Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, which will carry NASA science-technology demonstrations and other commercial payloads to Mons Mouton, a lunar plateau near the moon’s South Pole region.
- Launch window: The four-day launch window will be announced later.
- Location: Pad 39A at KSC.
- Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
TBA: United Launch Alliance USSF-106
- Mission: Equipped with four solid rocket boosters, ULA’s third Vulcan rocket will take flight on the Space Force’s USSF-106 national security mission into geosynchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles above Earth.
- Launch: TBA.
- Location: Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- Sonic booms: No.
- Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team coverage: Starts two hours before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
Late March: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10
- Mission: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 crew members will launch for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station on a Falcon 9 rocket.
- Launch: TBA.
- Location: TBA.
- Sonic booms: TBA.
- Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team coverage: Starts two hours before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
Spring: SpaceX-Axiom Space Ax-4
- Mission: Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
- Launch window: TBA.
- Location: Pad 39A.
- Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team coverage: Starts two hours before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
Spring: Blue Origin NASA ESCAPADE
- Mission: Blue Origin will launch its powerhouse New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This first launch will send NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars.
- Launch window: TBA.
- Location: Launch Complex 36.
- Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
May: Sierra Space Dream Chaser
- Mission: Sierra Space will launch its uncrewed Dream Chaser space plane atop a ULA Vulcan rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- Launch window: TBA.
- Location: Launch Complex 41.
- Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team coverage: Starts two hours minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.