TBD 1st quarter of 2024: United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur on Sierra Space Dream Chaser test flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41. 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, 1st quarter of 2024 (Delayed from summer 2023): Polaris Dawn mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 topped with the Crew Dragon Resilience from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A. TBD, early 2024: United Launch Alliance Atlas V on USSF 51 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41. Its four crew members are NASA astronauts Commander Matthew Dominick, Pilot Michael Barratt, Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin. It’s the eighth SpaceX operational mission under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. No earlier than mid-February 2024: SpaceX Crew-8 on Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A. PACE will advance the assessment of ocean health by measuring the distribution of phytoplankton, tiny plants and algae that sustain the marine food web. January 2024: NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9. The launch date is dependent on spacecraft traffic to the ISS and in-orbit activity planning and constraints that have to be coordinated with NASA. This mission is targeting a 14-day stay, and will fly up with one of the SpaceX Crew Dragons. The commercial flight brings four crew for a short stay on the ISS. No crew has been announced, but NASA requires it to be commanded by a former NASA astronaut with experience on the space station such as the Ax-1 and Ax-2 commanders. No earlier than January 2024: Axiom Space was awarded the right to fly Axiom-3. The side boosters will be flying for the fifth time, previously used on the Psyche mission, two Space Force missions and one commercial flight with plans for another double land landing at Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. 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. 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. 24 (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. Landing would take place weeks after launch. The IM-1 is a suite of five robotic NASA payloads sent to the moon’s surface as part of a CLPS delivery. This could end up being the first NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) mission to land on the moon, although a backup in December could put it in a similar window as Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander awaiting a flight on the Vulcan Centaur. 14: A SpaceX Falcon 9 with the Intuitive Machines IM-1 lunar lander from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 11 p.m. Among supplies are NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) and Integrated Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Low-Earth-Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal (ILLUMA-T). 5: SpaceX Falcon 9 with Cargo Dragon on the CRS-29 mission to carry supplies to the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-B targeting 10:05 p.m. The first-stage booster is flying for the eighth time and will attempt a recovery landing on the droneship Just Read the Instructions stationed down range in the Atlantic. This would be the 59th launch from the Space Coast for the year. Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron gives the Sunday night window an 85% chance for good conditions, which improves to 90% in the event of a 24-hour delay. Further backups are available Monday night from 7:20 p.m. during a four-hour window the Space Force said runs from 7:13 p.m,-11:13 p.m. 29: SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-25 mission with 23 of its Starlink satellites launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 7:45 p.m., but with seven backup options from 8:17 p.m.-10:47 p.m.
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