Rocket launch schedule: Upcoming Florida launches and landings

Rick Neale, Florida Today
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Monday, January 29: SpaceX NG-20 ISS resupply mission

The Cygnus spacecraft is named the S.S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson.
The Cygnus spacecraft is named the S.S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson.

  • Mission: NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX will team up on an International Space Station resupply mission using a Falcon 9 rocket and Cygnus spacecraft.

  • Launch: 12:30 p.m.

  • Location: Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

  • Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.

Tuesday, February 6: NASA PACE spacecraft

Members of the media get a closer look at NASA’s PACE satellite at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville.
Members of the media get a closer look at NASA’s PACE satellite at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville.

  • Mission: NASA's PACE observatory — an acronym for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem — will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and gather "immense quantities of data" on the chemical composition, movement and interaction of airborne particles and clouds by scanning Earth with polarimeters every two days.

  • Launch window: TBA.

  • Location: Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

  • Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.

Mid-February: NASA-SpaceX Crew-8 mission

Crew-8 members (from left) Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist; and NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, commander; Matthew Dominick, pilot; and Jeanette Epps, mission specialist.
Crew-8 members (from left) Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist; and NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, commander; Matthew Dominick, pilot; and Jeanette Epps, mission specialist.

  • Mission: NASA’s eighth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Endeavour spacecraft will carry astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition.

  • Launch window: TBA.

  • Location: Kennedy Space Center.

  • Live coverage: Starts two hours before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.

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