SpaceX launch schedule lists a concentrated series of Starlink missions in mid March, with Falcon 9 rockets preparing a string of flights from SLC-40 and SLC-4E.
On March 14 a Falcon 9 was set for the Starlink 10-48 mission with liftoff at 8:37:10 a.m. EDT, from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, carrying 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites. The first stage booster, tail number 1095, was due to fly for a sixth time and to attempt a landing on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. That launch was delayed from March 12 and 13.
Two Falcon 9 missions followed in the next days. A March 16 window opened at 6:49 a.m. EDT for Starlink 10-46 from SLC-40, carrying 29 V2 Mini Optimized satellites and using booster 1090 on its 11th flight, with recovery aimed at the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas. A March 16/17 launch window from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base listed Starlink 17-24, 25 V2 Mini Optimized satellites and booster B1088 on its 14th flight, with a planned landing on Of Course I Still Love You after more than eight minutes of flight. The Vandenberg mission had been delayed repeatedly from March 11 through March 16.
Additional SpaceX flights included a March 18 Starlink 10-33 launch window from SLC-40 carrying 29 satellites with booster 1077 targeting Just Read the Instructions, and a March 20 Starlink 17-15 mission from SLC-4E with booster B1081 planned to land on Of Course I Still Love You. The schedule also lists a Transporter-16 smallsat rideshare mission from SLC-4E in March, carrying dozens of satellites with 57 payloads manifested by Exolaunch and 19 from Seops Space.
Other Global Launches And Longer Range Missions
Rocket Lab planned an Electron launch named Eight Days a Week from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, in a NET March 19/20 slot, carrying the eighth Strix synthetic aperture radar satellite for Synspective. The StriX-class satellites weigh in the 100 kilogram class and have an expected operating life of roughly five years on orbit, as reported by the schedule.
Isar Aerospace prepared a Spectrum second test flight called Onward and Upward from Andøya Spaceport in Norway, carrying five CubeSats and an experiment managed by Exolaunch. That flight was delayed from Jan. 21 because of a pressurization valve issue, according to the manifest.
Beyond these near term missions the schedule lists larger, later programmes. NASA’s Space Launch System will carry Artemis 2 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B on a crewed Orion flyby mission, with astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen performing a roughly 10-day lunar flyby and returning the Orion capsule Integrity for a Pacific Ocean splashdown. The Artemis 2 launch was delayed several times, most recently because of a helium issue with the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.
United Launch Alliance has a Boeing Starliner-1 flight listed as TBD from SLC-41, shifted to an uncrewed cargo role after the 2024 Crewed Flight Test. ULA also shows a Vulcan Centaur mission in VC4L configuration to carry Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser as its first flight to space, NET Q4 2026, with multiple prior delays. Blue Origin’s New Glenn is manifesting AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 to low Earth orbit in a NET March slot, and as of Jan. 22 Blue Origin had not said whether it would attempt a booster recovery. Finally a Falcon Heavy mission to launch NASA’s Dragonfly to Titan appears with a 20-day window opening July 5, 2028, and the mission lifecycle cost and launch award figures appear in the manifest.
