Date: May 19th

Mission: Falcon 9/Dragon C2

Launch Vehicle: Space-X's Falcon 9 (Space-X)

Launch Site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

Launch Time: 0128 GMT on 8th (8:28 p.m. EST on 7th)

Description: The Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. Pending completion of final safety reviews, testing and verification, NASA has agreed to allow SpaceX to send its Dragon spacecraft to rendezvous with the Station in a single flight.

 

Date: May 31

Mission: Sea Launch-45

Launch Vehicle: Zenit-3SLB

Launch Site: Odyssey Launch Platform

Launch Time: TBD

Description:

 

Date: June 14th

Mission: NuStar/Pegasus

Launch Vehicle: NuStar

Launch Site: Reagan Test Site Kwajalein Atoll in Marshall Islands

Launch Time: TBD

Description: The air-launched Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket will deploy NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft. NuSTAR will study high energy X-rays in the universe.

 

Date: June 20

Mission: Delta IV/ NROL-38

Launch Vehicle: Atlas V

Launch Site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

Launch Time: TBD

Description: The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch a classified spacecraft payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The rocket will fly in the 401 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage.

 

Date: June 28

Mission: Delta IV/NROL-15

Launch Vehicle: Delta IV

Launch Site: SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

Launch Time: TBD

Description: The United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket will launch a classified spy satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The largest of the Delta 4 family, the Heavy version features three Common Booster Cores mounted together to form a triple-body rocket.

 

Date: July 1

Mission: Sea Launch-49

Launch Vehicle: Zenit-3SLB

Launch Site: Odyssey Launch Platform

Launch Time: TBD

Description:

 

Date: July 21

Mission: SCaN Testbed/CoNNeCT

Launch Vehicle: JAXA H-II-B

Launch Site: Tanegashima Space Center Japan

Launch Time: TBD

Description: The Communications, Navigation, and Networking reConfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT) Project will provide an on-orbit, adaptable, Software Defined Radio (SDR) facility located on the International Space Station (ISS) along with the corresponding ground and operational systems. These facilities will enable experiments and technology development to conduct a suite of communications experiments.

 

Date: July 25

Mission: HTV-03

Launch Vehicle: JAXA HII-B

Launch Site: Tanegashima Space Center Japan

Launch Time: TBD

Description: The Japanese H-2B rocket will launch the third H-2 Transfer Vehicle. The HTV serves as an unmanned cargo vehicle to deliver equipment and supplies to the International Space Station. Delayed from Jan. 20, Feb. 18, June 26 and July 18.

 

Date: August 2

Mission: Atlas V/NROL-36

Launch Vehicle: Atlas V

Launch Site: SLC-3E, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

Launch Time: TBD

Description: The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch a classified spacecraft payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

 

Date: Aug 30

Mission: Atlas V/RBSP

Launch Vehicle: Atlas V

Launch Site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

Launch Time: TBD

Description: The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission for NASA. Built and managed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, this mission includes two spacecraft to fly in highly elliptical orbits to study Earth's radiation belts and probe the influences of the sun. The rocket will fly in the 401 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage.

 

Date: August **

Mission: SubTEC IV

Launch Vehicle: Orion Sounding Rocket

Launch Site: Wallops Flight Facility Pad 0A, Wallops Island, Virginia

Launch Time:

Description: Wallops Flight Facility plans to launch its homegrown Suborbital Technology Carrier (SubTEC), the fourth in a series of launches for the payload canister that Wallops engineers developed to help mature emerging technologies faster. The SubTec-IV sounding rocket launch will include a high data rate experiment that uses a Space Cube for command and data handling.

 

Date: Sept. 20

Mission: Delta IV/GPS 2F-4

Launch Vehicle: Delta IV

Launch Site: SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

Launch Time: TBD

Description: The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will deploy the Air Force's third Block 2F navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System. The rocket will fly in the Medium+ (4,2) configuration with two solid rocket boosters.

 

Date: December **

Mission: Atlas V/TDRS-K

Launch Vehicle: Atlas V

Launch Site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

Launch Time: TBD

Description: The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch the TDRS K communications and delay relay satellite for NASA. The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) connects mission control with the International Space Station and other orbiting satellites. The rocket will fly in the 401 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage.

 

 

 

Legend: + Targeted For | * No Earlier Than (Tentative) | ** To Be Determined