Legend: + Targeted For | * No Earlier Than (Tentative) | ** To Be Determined
2009 Launches
Date: Oct. 27 +
Mission: Ares I-X Flight Test
Launch Vehicle: Ares I-X
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39B
Launch Window: 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. EDT
Description: The Ares I-X flight test is NASA's first test
for the Agency's new Constellation launch vehicle -- Ares I. The Ares I-X flight
will provide NASA with an early opportunity to test and prove flight characteristics,
hardware, facilities and ground operations associated with the Ares I.
Date: Nov. 12 +
Mission: STS-129
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Atlantis
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 4:04 p.m. EST
Description: Space shuttle Atlantis will deliver components
including two spare gyroscopes, two nitrogen tank assemblies, two pump modules,
an ammonia tank assembly and a spare latching end effector for the station's
robotic arm to the International Space Station.
Date: Dec. 7
Mission: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Launch Vehicle: Delta II 7320
Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base - SLC 2
Launch Time: 6:10 - 6:23 a.m. PST
Description: This mission will survey the entire sky in the
mid-infrared with far greater sensitivity than any previous mission or program
ever has. The WISE survey will consist of over a million images, from which
hundreds of millions of astronomical objects will be cataloged.
2010 Launches
Date: Feb. 3
Mission: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Complex
41
Launch Time: 10:53 - 11:53 a.m. EST
Description: The first Space Weather Research Network mission
in the Living With a Star (LWS) Program of NASA.
Date: Feb. 4 +
Mission: STS-130
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 6:20 a.m. EST
Description: Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the final
connecting node, Node 3, and the Cupola, a robotic control station with six
windows around its sides and another in the center that provides a 360-degree
view around the International Space Station.
Date: March 4
Mission: GOES-P
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta IV
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Complex
37
Launch Time: TBD
Description: GOES-P is the latest in a series of meteorological
satellites designed to watch for strom development and weather conditions on
Earth.
Date: March 18 +
Mission: STS-131
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Discovery
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 1:08 p.m. EDT
Description: Space shuttle Discovery will carry a Multi-Purpose
Logistics Module filled with science racks that will be transferred to laboratories
of the International Space Station.
Date: May 14 +
Mission: STS-132
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Atlantis
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 3:05 p.m. EDT
Description: Space shuttle Atlantis mission will carry an integrated
cargo carrier to deliver maintenance and assembly hardware, including spare
parts for space station systems. In addition, the second in a series of new
pressurized components for Russia, a Mini Research Module, will be permanently
attached to the bottom port of the Zarya module.
Date: May 23
Mission: Aquarius
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta II 7320
Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base - SLC 2
Description: The Aquarius mission will provide the first-ever
global maps of salt concentrations in the ocean surface needed to understand
heat transport and storage in the ocean.
Date: July 29 +
Mission: STS-133 or STS-134
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 8:45 a.m. EDT
STS-133 Description: Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the Express Logistics
Carrier 4 (ELC4), a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MLPM) and critical spare
components to the International Space Station.
STS-134 Description: Space shuttle Discovery will deliver an EXPRESS Logistics
Carrier-3 (ELC-3) and an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the International
Space Station.
Date: Sept. 16 +
Mission: STS-134 or STS-133
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Discovery
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 1 p.m. EDT
STS-134 Description: Space shuttle Discovery will deliver an EXPRESS Logistics
Carrier-3 (ELC-3) and an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the International
Space Station.
STS-133 Description: Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the Express Logistics
Carrier 4 (ELC4), a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MLPM) and critical spare
components to the International Space Station.
Date: Oct. 1 *
Mission: Glory
Launch Vehicle: Orbital Sciences Taurus Rocket
Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base - Launch Pad SLC 576-E
Description: The Glory Mission will help increase our understanding
of the Earth's energy balance by collecting data on the properties of aerosols
and black carbon in the Earth's atmosphere and how the Sun's irradiance affects
the Earth's climate.
2011 Launches
Date: October
Mission: Mars Science Laboratory
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Description: The Mars Science Laboratory is a rover that will
assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support
microbial life and to determine the planet's habitability.
Last updated -- Oct. 8, 2009
