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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Active and Planned
  • SLC-11
    • Atlas (Historically)
    • New Glenn (Combined with SLC-12 and SLC-36)
  • SLC-12
    • Atlas (Historically)
    • Atlas-Able (Historically)
    • Atlas-Agena (Historically)
    • New Glenn (Combined with SLC-11 and SLC-36)
  • SLC-13
    • Atlas (Historically)
    • Atlas-Agena (Historically)
    • SpaceX LZ-1
    • SpaceX LZ-2
    • Daytona I (Planned)
    • Dauntless (Planned)
  • SLC-14
    • Atlas (Historically)
    • Mercury-Atlas (Historically)
    • Atlas-Agena (Historically)
    • Nova (Planned)
  • SLC-16
    • Titan I (Historically)
    • Titan II (Historically)
    • Pershing 1a (Historically)
    • Pershing II (Historically)
    • Terran 1 (Historically)
    • Terran R (Planned)
  • SLC-20
    • Titan I (Historically)
    • Titan III (Historically)
    • Alpha (Planned)
    • Medium Launch Vehicle (Planned)
  • LC-36
    • Demolished Sites
      • SLC-36A
        • Atlas-Centaur (Historically)
        • Atlas II (Historically)
      • SLC-36B
        • Atlas-Centaur (Historically)
        • Atlas I (Historically)
        • Atlas II (Historically)
        • Atlas III (Historically)
    • Combined Site
      • New Glenn (Combined with SLC-11 and 12)
  • SLC-40
    • Titan III (Historically)
    • Titan IV (Historically)
    • Falcon 9
  • SLC-41
    • Titan III (Historically)
    • Titan IV (Historically)
    • Atlas V
    • Vulcan
  • SLC-46
    • Trident II (Historically)
    • Athena I (Historically)
    • Athena II (Historically)
    • Minotaur IV (Historically)
    • Rocket 3 (Historically)
    • Future Astra Rocket (Planned)
Inactive
  • SLC-1
    • Snark (Historically)
    • Matador (Historically)
    • Aerosat (Historically)
  • SLC-2
    • Snark (Historically)
    • Matador (Historically)
    • Aerosat (Historically)
  • SLC-3
    • Bumper-WAC (Historically)
    • BOMARC (Historically)
    • Polaris (Historically)
    • X-17 (Historically)
  • SLC-4
    • SLC-4A (Second pad)
      • BOMARC (Historically)
    • BOMARC (Historically)
    • Redstone (Historically)
    • Matador (Historically)
    • Jason (Historically)
    • Draco (Historically)
  • SLC-5
    • Jupiter-C (Historically)
    • Mercury (Historically)
    • Mercury-Redstone (Historically)
  • SLC-6
    • Redstone (Historically)
    • Jupiter (Historically)
  • SLC-9
    • Navaho (Historically)
  • SLC-15
    • Titan I (Historically)
    • Titan II (Historically)
    • RS1 (Cancelled)
  • SLC-18
    • Viking (Historically)
    • Vanguard (Historically)
    • Thor (Historically)
    • Blue Scout Junior (Historically)
    • Blue Scout (Historically)
  • SLC-19
    • Titan I (Historically)
    • Titan II – Gemini
  • SLC-21
    • Goose (Historically)
    • Mace (Historically)
  • SLC-22
    • Goose (Historically)
    • Mace (Historically)
  • SLC-23/24
    • Triton (Historically)
    • Snark (Historically)
  • SLC-25
    • Polaris (Historically)
    • X-17 (Historically)
    • Poseidon (Historically)
    • Trident I (Historically)
  • SLC-26
    • Redstone (Historically)
      • Explorer 1 launch site
    • Jupiter (Historically)
  • SLC-29
    • Polaris (Historically)
  • SLC-30A
    • Pershing 1 (Historically)
  • SLC-31
    • Minuteman (Historically)
    • Pershing 1a (Historically)
    • Burial of Challenger remains
  • SLC-32
    • Minuteman (Historically)
  • SLC-34
    • Saturn 1 (Historically)
    • Saturn 1B (Historically)
      • Site of Apollo 1 fire
  • SLC-37B
    • Saturn 1 (Historically)
    • Saturn 1B (Historically)
    • Delta IV (Historically)
    • Delta IV Heavy ((Historically)
  • SLC-44
    • Sounding Rockets (Historically)
    • Super Loki ((Historically)
    • Super Loki Lite Star (Historically)
    • LOFT-1 (Historically)
Demolished
  • Launch Complex A (Replaced with SLC-46)
    • Matador (Historically)
    • Launch Complex B (Replaced with SLC-46)
      • Matador (Historically)
  • Launch Complex C (Replaced with SLC-46)
    • Matador (Historically)
  • Launch Complex D (Replaced with SLC-46)
    • Matador (Historically)
  • SLC-10 (Replaced with SLC-31 and 32)
    • Jason (Historically)
    • Draco (Historically)
    • Nike Tomahawk (Historically)
  • SLC-17A
    • Thor (Historically)
    • Thor-Able (Historically)
    • Thor-Ablestar (Historically)
    • Thor-Delta (Historically)
    • Delta II (Historically)
  • SLC-17B
    • Thor (Historically)
    • Thor-Ablestar (Historically)
    • Thor-Delta (Historically)
    • Delta II (Historically)
    • Delta III (Historically)
  • SLC-37A (Taken over by SLC-37B)
    • Saturn 1 (Historically)
    • Saturn 1B (Unused)
  • SLC-43 (Replaced with SLC-46)
    • Super Loki ((Historically)
  • SLC-44 (Replaced with submarine turning basin)
    • Dragon (Missile) ((Historically)
  • SLC-45 (Replaced with SLC-46)
    • Roland (Cancelled)

Kennedy Space Center

  • LC-39A
    • Saturn V (Historically)
    • Space Shuttle (Historically)
    • Ares V (Canceled)
    • Falcon 9
    • Falcon Heavy
    • Starship (In Development)
  • LC-39B
    • Saturn V (Historically)
    • Saturn IB (Historically)
    • Space Shuttle (Historically)
    • Ares I-X (Historically)
    • Space Launch System
  • LC-39C (Canceled)
  • LC-48
    • No tenants
  • LC-49 (Planned)

Pacific Spaceport Complex – Kodiak

Vandenberg Space Force Base

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA to launch IMAP, Carruthers, and SWFO with support from Astrotech’s commercial facility

NASA is gearing up for a landmark late-September launch featuring three pivotal spacecraft: the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO-L1). The missions are being prepared at Astrotech Space Operations, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary in Titusville that has become one of the nation’s premier spacecraft processing hubs.

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How many rockets has SpaceX launched in 2025?

Once again, SpaceX is hoping to break records with a staggering 175 to 180 launches for the year – and that’s just for Falcons. This could also be Starship‘s biggest year yet, and maybe even by the end of it, it’s an operational rocket. Keep track of SpaceX’s progress with the list below of SpaceX’s launches for 2025.

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Starship Flight 10: Testing returns to Starbase with successful Ship 37 static fire

SpaceX Starship Ship 37 completes static fire on Pad A at Starbase, Texas.

Last week, SpaceX got back to moving forward with a successful static fire of Ship 37, the upper stage segment for Starship Flight 10. This took a while to put together due to the loss of Massey’s post Ship 36 explosion, but now that it’s complete, it finally feels like there is life again at Starbase.

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Amazon’s second batch of Kuiper satellites will launch tomorrow

ULA is set to attempt its second launch of Amazon Kuiper satellites from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This will be Amazon’s second batch of operational satellites to be deployed as well, finally hitting a stride in getting its constellation of internet-providing satellites out there.

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Starship Flight 9 to see first reused booster

SpaceX announced that its Starship Flight 9 mission will see the rocket’s first taste of reusability with the booster from Flight 7. The company also announced that a vast majority of the Raptor engines that flew on the booster will return for flight as well.

Read more: Starship Flight 9: SpaceX shows off Ship 35 heading for testing

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FRAM2 lifts off on first crewed spaceflight over the North and South Poles

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from LC-39A for the FRAM2 mission

Monday evening, SpaceX’s “Fram2” lifted off successfully from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission marked the first human spaceflight to fly in a true polar orbit, passing directly over both the North and South Poles. The mission name references the historic Norwegian ship Fram, which was used during polar expeditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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When will ULA launch this year?

We’re soon closing the chapter on the first quarter of 2025, and so far the only companies in the headlines for launches have been SpaceX and Rocket Lab, with other companies like Firefly soon to follow. However, SpaceX’s supposed competitor has been nowhere, still waiting on final work from the Space Force that its Vulcan rocket is cleared to launch the missions it was contracted to do. So when might ULA, Vulcan, or Atlas finally launch next?

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