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1 launch from Wallops Island, Virginia because of issues with Russian- and Ukrainian-made rocket engines and first stage parts that are being redeveloped with Firefly Aerospace for a future Antares rocket not expected until at least 2025. This is the first of at least three SpaceX flights of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft as part of a deal after its 10-year run of launches atop Antares rockets ended with the Aug. This will be the first ISS launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, which SpaceX has been redeveloping to support future crewed missions in addition to KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A. TBD, December 2023: SpaceX Falcon 9 with Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft on the NG-20 mission to resupply the International Space Station. TBD, the first half of 2023: United Launch Alliance Atlas V on USSF 51 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41. TBD, 4th quarter of 2023: SpaceX Falcon Heavy from KSC’s Launch Complex 39-A on USSF-52, the third mission for the Space Force. TBD (Delayed from July 21): Boeing CST-100 Starliner atop United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 on the Crew Flight Test (CFT) carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on an eight-day mission to the International Space Station. Both Gillis and Menon are SpaceX employees. Also flying are Scott Poteet, given the title of mission pilot, specialist Sarah Gillis, and specialist and medical officer Anna Menon. It’s the first of up to three planned Polaris missions, and will feature a tethered spacewalk. The private orbital mission will bring billionaire Jared Isaacman to space for a second time after 2021′s Inspiration4 mission. TBD, 4th quarter of 2023 (Delayed from summer): Polaris Dawn mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 topped with the Crew Dragon Resilience from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A.

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Also flying will be another human remains payload for Celestis Inc., this time brining the ashes of more than 150 people to space including “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and actor James Doohan who played “Scotty” on the TV series. TBD, 4th quarter of 2023 (Delayed from May 4): First-ever launch of United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur on Certification-1 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41: Slated to carry commercial company Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander to the moon, and the first two test satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet constellation. Psyche is a nickel-iron core asteroid that orbits the sun beyond Mars anywhere from 235 million to 309 million miles away. The probe was delayed from 2022, and headed for the asteroid Psyche, using a Mars-gravity assist and not arriving until August 2029. 10: A SpaceX Falcon Heavy to send NASA’s Psyche probe into space launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A. They have now switched to one of the nine Atlas rockets Amazon had previously purchased from ULA as Vulcan has been delayed to no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2023.Īs early as Oct. Payload is Amazon’s two test Project Kuiper satellites that were set to fly on ULA’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket. 26: United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41. This is ULA’s 34th launch for the NRO including June 22’s NROL-68. It will provide the capability to search, detect and track objects from space-based sensors for timely custody and event detection. senior policy makers, the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. SILENTBARKER’s classified mission is to improve space domain awareness to support national security and provide intelligence data to U.S. This would be the second ULA launch of 2023.

29: United Launch Alliance Atlas V on the SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 for the National Reconnaissance Office and Space Force from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41. The crew will stay docked about 190 days.Īug. The launch will use a new first-stage booster. This will be Endurance’s third spaceflight after having been used on the Crew-3 and Crew-5 missions. Flying are NASA astronaut and mission commander Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA astronaut and pilot Andreas Mogensen, mission specialist JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and mission specialist Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. It’s the seventh SpaceX operational mission under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. 25: SpaceX Crew-7 mission on a Falcon 9 launching the Crew Dragon Endurance from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39-A targeting 3:26 a.m.

First-stage booster flew for the ninth time with a recovery landing on the droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic. Payload is 22 of the V2 mini Starlink satellites. 11: SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-9 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 1:17 a.m.

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