SpaceX Launch Cape Canaveral Anchors Packed Falcon 9 Schedule

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Summary
  • Falcon 9 flights from SLC-40 will deploy Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites
  • Booster reuse noted with specific tail numbers and planned drone ship recoveries
  • RocketLaunch.org lists EchoStar 25 and multiple SDA Tranche 1 missions
  • Other Cape launches include Atlas 5 Starliner and Vulcan Centaur Dream Chaser

SpaceX launch Cape Canaveral figures prominently in public manifests, with Falcon 9 missions from SLC-40 listed as core activity in the regional schedule.

The schedule identifies Falcon 9 flights from SLC-40 that will deliver batches of Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites, with one mission carrying 29 spacecraft and another carrying the same class of payloads.

Flight hardware details appear alongside those missions, including booster tail numbers and reuse counts, and recovery plans placing first stages on the drone ships Just Read the Instructions and A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.

RocketLaunch.org supplements the manifest by listing additional SpaceX missions tied to the Cape area, including an EchoStar 25 commercial satellite slot and multiple United States Space Force Space Development Agency Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layer launches, plus a planned Dragon CRS-2 SpX-34 cargo flight under a commercial resupply contract.

Other Cape Area And Nearby Heavy Missions

Beyond Falcon 9 activity, the launch listings show a mix of other vehicles slated for Cape Canaveral and nearby pads, starting with an Atlas 5 mission at SLC-41 that will carry Boeing's CST-100 Starliner as an uncrewed cargo flight rather than the previously planned post-certification crewed mission.

A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur flight is scheduled from SLC-41 to carry Sierra Space's Dream Chaser on its second demonstration to the International Space Station, using a VC4L configuration with four GEM-63XL boosters, a long-length payload fairing, and two RL10 engines on the Centaur stage, marking the Dream Chaser's first flight to space.

Blue Origin's New Glenn is listed for Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral to place AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 into low Earth orbit, described as the constellation's second next-generation satellite intended to support space-based cellular broadband.

The broader regional timeline also references major missions at adjacent Kennedy Space Center pads, including an SLS launch from LC-39B to carry an Orion crewed capsule on a lunar flyby with named crew members, and a Falcon Heavy mission from LC-39A assigned to launch NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft to Titan.

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