· KENNEDY SPACE CENTERKennedy Space Center is NASA's spaceport on Merritt Island in Florida, immediately north of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Launch Library 2 counts 281 launches from this site to date. Two pads carry the flights today: LC-39A, leased by SpaceX, and LC-39B, which NASA keeps for the Space Launch System. Everything below is written into this page by the server, so it reads the same for people and for machines.
Every launch currently on the books for this site, earliest first. Only rows with a clock time have a confirmed liftoff time. Where a launch provider has given no more than a month, a quarter or a year, that is what you see, because a made-up time would be worse than none.
| LIFTOFF (UTC) | ROCKET · MISSION | PROVIDER | PAD | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon Heavy Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | GO | |
date not yet set | Falcon Heavy Griffin Mission One | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | TBD |
date not yet set | Astra Rocket 4 Maiden Flight | AS | Launch Complex 48 | TBD |
date not yet set | Falcon Heavy USSF-75 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | TBD |
date not yet set | Space Launch System Block 1 Artemis III | NASA | Launch Complex 39B | TBD |
date not yet set | Starship Superbird-9 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A Starship Pad | TBD |
date not yet set | Falcon Heavy NROL-86 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | TBD |
date not yet set | Falcon Heavy USSF-155 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | TBD |
date not yet set | Falcon Heavy USSF-63 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | TBD |
date not yet set | Falcon Heavy WGS-12 (USSF-206) | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | TBD |
date not yet set | Falcon Heavy Astrobotic-3 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | TBD |
date not yet set | Falcon Heavy Gateway PPE & HALO | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | TBD |
Two pads carry the flights, and they belong to different operators. Which one a mission uses tells you immediately what kind of flight it is.
The Apollo pad. Saturn V flew from here, then the Space Shuttle, and SpaceX has leased it since 2014. Almost everything recorded at this site in recent years lifted off from LC-39A: Starlink batches on Falcon 9, every Falcon Heavy, and the crewed Dragon flights to the space station.
The Artemis pad, kept by NASA and rebuilt as a clean pad with a mobile launcher. Artemis II lifted off from here on 1 April 2026 and Artemis III is on the books for the same pad. It sees very few launches, but the ones it sees are the largest rockets flying.
Two more pads appear in the schedule without carrying regular traffic yet: a dedicated Starship pad next to LC-39A, and LC-48, a small pad on the space centre grounds that currently holds a single maiden flight.
A common mix-up: Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral are not the same place. Falcon 9 flights on SLC-40, Atlas V and Vulcan on SLC-41 and New Glenn on LC-36 belong to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, a separate site a few miles south with its own operator. The launch data keeps them apart and so does this site.
The pads are on NASA property and closed to the public. Everything below is what the operators publish themselves; each entry names its source, and the distances are the ones the source states, not estimates by T-Rocket.
Bleacher seating at the Apollo/Saturn V Center, included with daily admission. Of the locations the visitor complex publishes a distance for, this is the closest to LC-39A. The Apollo/Saturn V Center can be closed for private events or operational reasons.
Viewing from the main complex, included with daily admission and with no extra ticket needed. The same location is about 6.7 miles from SLC-40 and 7.1 miles from SLC-41 at neighbouring Cape Canaveral.
The Park Service calls the Playalinda District the closest view of the launches. Viewing is limited to launches that fall within 06:00 to 20:00 in summer and 06:00 to 18:00 in winter. Playalinda Beach Road closes between the entry gate and parking lot 1 thirty minutes before liftoff and reopens immediately after a successful launch or a confirmed cancellation. The Park Service recommends being in the park a few hours early and restricts entry once the park reaches capacity.
The city names seven public points along the water: Space View Park, Riverfront Park, Rotary Riverfront Park, Sand Point Park, William J. Manzo Park, the Municipal Marina and the Max Brewer Bridge. Space View Park is the only one the city gives a distance for, stating it sits less than 15 miles directly across from the launch pads. Parking there is free but limited.
Access rules, road closures and opening hours change from launch to launch. Check the operator on the day before travelling, and remember that a launch can slip by hours or be scrubbed after you arrive.
What actually flew, most recent first. Kennedy runs a low cadence with high profile missions, so this table reaches further back in time than it would for a busier site.
| LIFTOFF (UTC) | ROCKET · MISSION | PROVIDER | PAD | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon Heavy ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific) | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS | |
| Space Launch System Block 1 Artemis II | NASA | Launch Complex 39B | SUCCESS | |
| Falcon 9 Block 5 Starlink Group 6-99 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS | |
| Falcon 9 Block 5 Starlink Group 6-92 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS | |
| Falcon 9 Block 5 Starlink Group 6-86 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS | |
| Falcon 9 Block 5 Starlink Group 6-78 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS | |
| Falcon 9 Block 5 Starlink Group 6-89 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS | |
| Falcon 9 Block 5 Starlink Group 10-51 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS | |
| Falcon 9 Block 5 IMAP & others | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS | |
| Falcon 9 Block 5 Starlink Group 10-57 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS | |
| Falcon 9 Block 5 Starlink Group 10-11 | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS | |
| Falcon 9 Block 5 OTV-8 (X-37B) (USSF-36) | SpX | Launch Complex 39A | SUCCESS |
They are neighbours, not the same place, and the difference is who owns the ground. Kennedy Space Center is NASA territory on Merritt Island and holds LC-39A and LC-39B, the two pads built for Apollo and later used by the Space Shuttle. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station lies a few miles to the south, is run by the United States Space Force, and holds SLC-40, SLC-41 and LC-36. Because the two sit within a few miles of each other, reporting often blurs them, but the launch data keeps them apart and so does this site. If a report says Cape Canaveral for an Artemis launch or a crewed Dragon flight, it is wrong.
Because of what flies from it. Cape Canaveral runs the high-cadence Falcon 9 traffic from SLC-40, which lifts off every few days. Kennedy carries the heavier and rarer end: Falcon Heavy, crewed Dragon and the Space Launch System. A Falcon Heavy flies a handful of times a year and an Artemis mission far less often than that. Fewer launches from Kennedy is not a sign of a quiet pad, it is a sign of what kind of pad it is.
NET is short for no earlier than. It is the earliest moment a launch can happen, not a promise. A launch can slip later by minutes or by months, and it will never lift off before the time shown. The status tells you how firm the date is: GO means confirmed for the listed time, TBC means the date is to be confirmed, TBD means it is still to be determined. Rows on this page that show only a month or a quarter are launches where the provider has not committed to a date at all. Kennedy has a lot of those, because missions of this size are planned years out.
From Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs, refetched by the T-Rocket server and written straight into this page. The site descriptions, the pad notes and the viewing section are written by T-Rocket from the sources named against each entry. What every value means and how fresh it is, is documented under data sources. T-Rocket is not an official source: only the launch provider can confirm a launch.