SpaceX Launch Schedule

In Flight

21 Jul, 9:15pm

UTC

🎯 Geostationary Transfer Orbit

The Northrop Grumman/SpaceLogistics MRV-1 is a mission extension payload including a mission robotic vehicle (MRV) and multiple mission extension pods (MEPs). The MRV is designed to attach up to 30 MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) to various satellites in GEO over the course of its life, and the MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) are 400 kg spacecraft designed to be captured by the MRV and then attached to a customer's satellite. A single MEP can extend a 2000 kg satellite's service life by up to 6 years. For this mission, 2 of the MEP's will service satellites for Intelsat, while the third will service a satellite for Optus.

Last Update: All spacecraft have separated.

Flight 13

23 Jul, 10:45pm

UTC

📍 Starbase

🚀 Starship V3

🎯 Suborbital

13th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Second flight of Starship V3. For the first time, Starship will carry 20 V3 Starlink satellites to space, which will extend solar arrays and antennas and will attempt to connect with ground stations in South Africa and the larger Starlink constellation via high-capacity lasers. 6 of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators to continue testing methods of analyzing Starship’s heat shield readiness for return to launch site on future missions. Several tiles on Starship have been painted white to simulate missing tiles and serve as imaging targets in the test.

Last Update: Delayed to NET July 23.

Starlink Group 17-51

25 Jul, 2:00pm

UTC

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Last Update: Now targeting Jul 25 at 14:00 UTC

Starlink Group 17-52

29 Jul, 2:00am

UTC

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Last Update: Now targeting Jul 29 at 02:00 UTC

NROL-95

30 Jul, 6:37am

UTC

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

🎯 Unknown

Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office.

Updated: Jul 22, 6:00am UTC

Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 (x 9)

30 Aug, 11:20am

UTC

📍 Kennedy Space Center

🚀 Falcon Heavy

🎯 Sun-Earth L2

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA infrared space telescope with a 2.4 m (7.9 ft) wide field of view primary mirror and two scientific instruments. The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) is a 300.8-megapixel multi-band visible and near-infrared camera, providing a sharpness of images comparable to that achieved by the Hubble Space Telescope over a 0.28 square degree field of view, 100 times larger than imaging cameras on the Hubble. The Coronagraphic Instrument (CGI) is a high-contrast, small field of view camera and spectrometer covering visible and near-infrared wavelengths using novel starlight-suppression technology. Roman objectives include a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing, and probing the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structure, with the goal of measuring the effects of dark energy, the consistency of general relativity, and the curvature of spacetime.

Last Update: Setting GO.

TBD

Aug 2026

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax services via its Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees. In early 2022, Globalstar contracted with MDA for the construction of 17 new 2nd generation refresh satellites to replenish the existing constellation. Rocket Lab is sub-contracted to build the satellites' buses and the launch dispensers.

Last Update: NET August.

BlueBird Block 2 #6-8

TBD

Aug 2026

SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched. This launch will feature 3 satellites.

Last Update: NET early August.

TBD

Sep 2026

SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer C

🎯 Polar Orbit

Tranche 1 Transport Layer A is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance. This launch carries 21 satellites manufactured by Northrop Grumman.

Last Update: NET mid-February.

TBD

Sep 2026

SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer D

🎯 Polar Orbit

Tranche 1 Tracking Layer C is one of five missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer constellation, which will provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.

Last Update: NET 2026.

TBD

Sep 2026

SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer A

🎯 Polar Orbit

Tranche 1 Transport Layer D is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.

Updated: Jul 22, 6:00am UTC

TBD

Sep 2026

SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer E

🎯 Polar Orbit

Tranche 1 Tracking Layer A is one of five missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer constellation, which will provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.

Last Update: NET May-Q2 (unclear which of the lettered groups will fly first).

TBD

Sep 2026

SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer F

🎯 Polar Orbit

Tranche 1 Tracking Layer E is one of five missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer constellation, which will provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.

Updated: Jul 22, 6:00am UTC

TBD

Sep 2026

🎯 Polar Orbit

Tranche 1 Transport Layer F is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.

Updated: Jul 22, 6:00am UTC

Crew-13

TBD

Sep 2026

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

👨‍🚀 4 Astronauts

SpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Last Update: NET mid-September.

O3b mPower 11-13

TBD

Sep 2026

Transporter 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

🎯 Medium Earth Orbit

3 high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.

Last Update: NET September.

TBD

Oct 2026

🎯 Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Updated: Jun 17, 6:30am UTC

Griffin Mission One

TBD

Nov 2026

📍 Kennedy Space Center

🚀 Falcon Heavy

🎯 Lunar Lander

Demonstration flight of the Astrobotic Griffin lander and its engines, initially contracted for the cancelled NASA VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission. The vacated payload spot will now host the FLIP (FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform) lunar rover from Astrolab.

Last Update: NET November.

Nova-C IM-3

TBD

2026

🎯 Lunar Lander

This is the third mission to the Moon for Intuitive Machines with its Nova-C lunar lander. It is to deliver 130 kg of payloads to the lunar surface. This mission also includes a rideshare possibility due to available excess capacity on the launch vehicle.

Last Update: NET late 2026. (see P. 24)

Inmarsat-7 F1 (GX-7)

TBD

2026

Inmarsat-7 is the seventh generation of satellites for the London-based global mobile satellite communications operator Inmarsat. The three satellites of the series - GX-7, 8 & 9 - will have an improved fully reconfigurable Ka-band payload for Inmarsat's Global Xpress services. They are optimized for real-time mobility and feature thousands of dynamically-formed beams that direct capacity with laser-like precision over high-demand areas, to provide HTS (High Throughput) broadband connectivity for the mobility market. The satellites will be based on Airbus’ new standard and fully reconfigurable satellite product line OneSat. Fully reconfigurable and featuring on board processing and active antennas, the three Ka-band spacecraft will be able to adjust their coverage, capacity and frequency.

Last Update: NET Q4 2026.

CHORUS

TBD

2026

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

CHORUS is MDA's next generation Earth observation constellation, consisting of 2 radar satellites (C-band SAR and X-band SAR), in a 53.5 degree 600 km altitude LEO, with the X-band trailing the C-band by 60 minutes. A collaborative multi-sensor constellation, CHORUS will bring together diverse and unique imagery and data sources and provide a new level of near real-time insight and innovative Earth observation services. Operating in a unique mid-inclination orbit, CHORUS will be able to image day or night, regardless of weather conditions, with daily access of up to 95% of the coverage area. From an industry-leading 700km-wide imaging swath down to sub-metre high resolution, CHORUS will provide the most extensive and unrivalled Earth observation radar imaging capacity available on the market in a single mission.

Last Update: NET late 2026.

Rivada 1

TBD

2026

🎯 Polar Orbit

24 satellites for Rivada's internet constellation.

Last Update: NET 2026 (as of March 2025).

Rivada 2