Falcon 9 Starlink 17-371778821200 (15-May-2026 05:00)
[ May 15 / Window opens at 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT / 1400 UTC)]
[map] SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of 24 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. More than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1103, launching for a second time, will land on the drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You, positioned in the Pacific Ocean. Booster previously listed as B1097. Delayed from May 9 and 10. Delayed from May 14. Updated: May 12 [#]
Falcon 9 Globalstar 2-R Launch 11778994000 (17-May-2026 05:00)
[ NET May 17 / Window opens at 8:50 a.m. EDT (1250 UTC)]
[map] SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch nine of its HIBLEO-4 satellites into low Earth orbit. This is the first of two launches that constitute a replenishment of its HIBLEO-4 fleet. Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1090, launching for a 12th time, will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Updated: May 08 [#]
Vega-C Smile1779080400 (18-May-2026 05:00)
[ NET May 18/19 / 12:52 a.m. local time (11:52 p.m. EDT / 0352 UTC)]
[map] ZLV pad, Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana
[*] [vidz] An Avio Vega-C rocket will launch the Smile mission, a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The Smile (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is set to deploy from the rocket 57 minutes after liftoff and deploy its solar arrays within 10 minutes after that. It has a planned mission life of three years and will operate in a highly elliptical Earth orbit. According to ESA, “Smile will use four science instruments to study how Earth responds to the solar wind from the Sun. This will improve our understanding of solar storms, geomagnetic storms and the science of space weather.” Delayed from April 9 “due to a technical issue… on a subsystem component production line after VV29 launcher integration.” Updated: April 23 [#]
Starship Flight 12
1779166800 (19-May-2026 05:00)
[ NET May 19 / Window opens at 5:30 p.m. CDT (6:30 p.m. EDT / 2230 UTC)]
[map] OLP-B, Starbase, Texas
A SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy rocket (collectively referred to as Starship) will launch from Starbase, Texas, on a suborbital flight. This will be the 12th flight of the integrated launch vehicle and the first launch of a version 3 rocket. SpaceX will launch the mission using the Ship 39 upper stage and Booster 19 first stage. As of May 4, SpaceX hasn’t said whether or not it will attempt to catch the Super Heavy booster back at the launch site. Delayed from May 15. Updated: May 12
Falcon 9 Starlink 10-311779426000 (22-May-2026 05:00)
[ May 22 / TBD]
[map] SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. The first stage booster, tail number 1077, launching for a 28th time, will land on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Updated: May 05 [#]
Falcon Heavy Dragonfly
1783227600 (05-Jul-2026 05:00)
[ NET July 5, 2028 / TBD]
[map] Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s Dragonfly mission, which consists of a rotorcraft designed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) that will explore Saturn’s icy moon, Titan. The mission was originally selected in 2019 and went through multiple plan iterations across fiscal years 2020 through 2022. It passed its Preliminary Design Review in March 2023 and then its Critical Design Review in April 2025. The mission has a total lifecycle cost of $3.35 billion, of which, $256.6 million was awarded to SpaceX to provide launch services and other mission related costs. The 20-day launch window opens on July 5, 2028. Updated: April 25
Vulcan Centaur Dream Chaser 11798693200 (31-Dec-2026 05:00)
[ NET Q4 2026 / TBD]
[map] SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
[*] [vidz] A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch on its second demonstration flight with Sierra Spaces Dream Chaser cargo vehicle for the International Space Station. The Dream Chaser is a lifting body resupply spacecraft that will launch on top of a rocket and land on a runway. This will be the Dream Chasers first flight to space. The Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly in the VC4L configuration with four GEM-63XL solid rocket boosters, a long-length payload fairing, and two RL10 engines on the Centaur upper stage. Delayed from August 2022, December 2023, January 2024, April 2024 and September 2024. Delayed from 2025. Updated: December 22 [#]
Falcon 9 CRS-341810184400 (13-May-2027 05:00)
[ NET May 13 / 6:50 p.m. EDT (2250 UTC)]
[map] SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
[*] [vidz] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA’s SpaceX CRS-34 mission, part of the agency’s Commercial Resupply Services program. The Dragon spacecraft, tail number C209, flying for a sixth time, will deliver thousands of pound of science and supplies to the International Space Station. The vehicle will arrive at the orbiting outpost after a roughly less than two-day transit, docking on May 14 at about 7:35 a.m. EDT (1135 UTC). Less than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1096, launching for a sixth time, will return for a landing at Landing Zone 40 (LZ-40). Scrubbed May 12 due to poor weather. Updated: May 12 [#]