Watch a Launch in Titusville
Titusville has some of the best views of rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center & Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
ViaSat-3 Americas & Arcturus
Launch Date / Time
April 26th 2023 at 7:24pm
Rocket
SpaceX Falcon Heavy
Location
LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Mission Details
The ViaSat-3 class of Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. The first two satellites will focus on the Americas and on Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), respectively, with the third satellite planned for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, completing Viasat’s global service coverage. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.
O3b mPOWER 3 & 4
Launch Date / Time
April 28th 2023 at 5:12pm
Rocket
SpaceX Falcon 9
Location
SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Mission Details
The O3b mPower satellites are improved second generation satellites for the SES owned O3b Networks.
Starlink Group 5-6
Launch Date / Time
May 2nd 2023 at 4:10am
Rocket
SpaceX Falcon 9
Location
SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Mission Details
Launch consists of Starlink v1.5 satellites deployed into Starlink’s second generation constellation (Starlink Gen 2)
Axiom Mission 2 (AX-2)
Launch Date / Time
May 17th 2023 at 7:34pm
Rocket
SpaceX Falcon 9
Location
LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Mission Details
AX-2 is Axiom Space’s second private crew rotation to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The crew will consist of commander and former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, pilot John Shoffner and Emirati mission specialists Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni.
NROL-68
Launch Date / Time
NET May 2023
Rocket
Delta IV Heavy
Location
SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
Mission Details
Classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Türksat 6A
Launch Date / Time
NET May 2023
Rocket
SpaceX Falcon 9
Location
SLC-40 or LC-39A, Florida
Mission Details
First communication geostationary satellite built in Turkey. (Some payloads are Canadian)
Türksat 6A is a satellite that will provide data relay for civil and military communications to the Anatolian peninsula as well as most of the European continent, the Middle East, and the westernmost part of the Russian federation.
Starliner Crew Flight Test
Launch Date / Time
NET July 2023
Rocket
ULA Atlas V N22
Location
SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS
Mission Details
A crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew program. The crew will be NASA astronauts Michael Fincke, Barry Wilmore, and a yet-to-be-announced astronaut. This launch will also be the first launch of humans from Cape Canaveral SFS since Apollo 7 in October 1968, and first launch of humans from SLC-41.
Peregrine Mission One & KuiperSat
Launch Date / Time
May 4th 2023
Rocket
United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket
Location
SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
Mission Details
First flight of Vulcan. Peregrine is Astrobotic’s lunar lander. Astrobotic was selected by NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to deliver up to 14 NASA payloads to the Moon on its Peregrine lunar lander in 2022. With this $79.5 million CLPS award, Astrobotic has now signed 16 customers for lunar delivery on its first mission in addition to the NASA payloads.
