ULA completed its projected number of launches from Cape Canaveral last year. Six Falcon 9 rockets lifted off last year - the busiest year of launches in SpaceX’s history - but four missions shy of its target at the beginning of the year. SpaceX’s 2015 calendar aims for a major uptick in the Falcon 9’s launch cadence over the flight rate it achieved in 2014. The rest of SpaceX’s launches will use the medium-class Falcon 9 booster. The SpaceX missions include the first flight of the company’s new Falcon Heavy rocket in the third quarter of 2015. Falzarano outlined Cape Canaveral’s launch manifest in remarks at a luncheon hosted by the National Space Club Florida Committee.Ĭape Canaveral had 16 space launches in 2014, tied for the highest number of rockets with spacecraft taking off from the Florida spaceport since 2003. The Air Force expects up to 14 SpaceX flights from Cape Canaveral, including one already in the books.Ĭol. SpaceX is responsible for most of the uptick in launch activity. Two liftoffs of ULA’s Delta 4 rocket are on the manifest in March and July. March 22: Relativity Space Terran-1, a 3D-printed rocket awaiting company’s first-ever launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 16 at 11:25 p.m. Navy’s third Mobile User Objective System communications satellite. Of the 24 launches on Cape Canaveral’s schedule this year, eight are flights of United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket, beginning with the Jan. Air Force’s 45th Operations Group headquartered at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.īut space launches are often delayed, and annual forecasts are rarely met due to launcher, payload and range scheduling issues. If all the missions go off as scheduled, the cramped launch calendar would make Cape Canaveral the world’s busiest spaceport this year, according to Col. military, NASA and commercial telecom operators, an Air Force official said Tuesday. Up to 24 launches are planned from Cape Canaveral in 2015, thanks to jam-packed manifests for SpaceX and United Launch Alliance to send up satellites for the U.S. 10 in this long exposure photograph from Kennedy Space Center’s press site. A Falcon 9 rocket streaks into orbit Jan.
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