Launch Services Program

Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Artemis 2
Commercial Crew
Commercial Resupply
Exploration Ground Systems
International Space Station (ISS)
Launch Services Program
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida spent 2025 preparing the launch vehicle and its powerhouse SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to launch four astronauts around the Moon for Artemis II in early 2026.
Posted December 22, 2025
EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)
Heliophysics
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launched at 3:55 p.m.
Posted November 14, 2025
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Goddard Space Flight Center
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Technicians completed integrating NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellite to an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter ring at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florid
Posted September 17, 2025
Heliophysics Division
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Science Mission Directorate
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for an observatory designed to study space weather and explore and map the boundaries of our solar neighborhood.
Posted September 16, 2025
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Office
Launch Services Program
NASA Headquarters
NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California, to launch the agency’s Aspera mission, a SmallSat to study galaxy formation and evolution, providing new insights into how the universe works. The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract.
Posted May 14, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Astrophysics
Heliophysics
Launch Services Program
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Science Mission Directorate
NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins of our universe and the history of galaxies, and to search for the ingredients of life in our galaxy. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx lifted off at 8:10 p.m. PDT on […]
Posted March 12, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Office
Launch Services Program
NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope)
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth.
Posted February 22, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Astrophysics Division
Astrophysics Pioneers
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Office
Launch Services Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Pandora mission, which will study at least 20 known exoplanets and their host stars to find out how changes in stars affect our observations of exoplanet atmospheres.
Posted February 10, 2025
Coronal Mass Ejections
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Office
Launch Services Program
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Science & Research
Solar Wind
Space Weather
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Technicians supporting NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission deployed and tested the spacecraft’s solar arrays at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of its launch next month.
Posted January 28, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Astrophysics Division
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Science Mission Directorate
NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 31, to discuss a new telescope that will improve our understanding of how the universe evolved and search for key ingredients for life in our galaxy. Agency experts will preview NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and […]
Posted January 27, 2025
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