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A quick look at which rockets lift off from various Brevard launch sites.
Florida’s Space Coast is the home of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, where a record-breaking 72 orbital launches took flight last year.
Officials expect that number to approach 100 launches this year, led by SpaceX. The company’s Starlink internet-satellite constellation launches will comprise the bulk of that total.
Following are the latest missions coming up from the Cape. All launches are listed in Eastern Standard Time. Be aware: Dates and times are routinely subject to change for a variety of reasons.
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Though SpaceX has yet to publicly announce this mission, a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency navigational warning indicates a rocket launch window will open Sunday night. More details:
- Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of Starlink internet satellites.
- Launch window: 6:04 to 10:35 p.m.
- Trajectory: Southeast.
- Local sonic boom: No.
- Booster landing: Drone ship out on the Atlantic Ocean.
- Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
- Mission: NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX will team up on an International Space Station resupply mission using a Falcon 9 rocket and Cygnus spacecraft.
- Launch: 12:30 p.m.
- Location: Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
Tuesday, February 6: NASA PACE spacecraft
- Mission: NASA’s PACE observatory — an acronym for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem — will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and gather “immense quantities of data” on the chemical composition, movement and interaction of airborne particles and clouds by scanning Earth with polarimeters every two days.
- Launch window: TBA.
- Location: Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
Mid-February: NASA-SpaceX Crew-8 mission
- Mission: NASA’s eighth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Endeavour spacecraft will carry astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition.
- Launch window: TBA.
- Location: Kennedy Space Center.
- Live coverage: Starts two hours before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
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