(ORDO NEWS) — From the launch sites at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, 57 rockets were launched into space in 2022. Many launches are also planned for this year.
Most of them will be carried out by SpaceX, which will use its Falcon 9 rockets. The company also promised to please us with several appearances of the Falcon Heavy.
The opportunity to observe the flight of the rocket may appear as early as January, when the launch of the USSF-67 mission of the US Space Forces is scheduled.
SpaceX will launch a second Space Force mission and commercial satellite using the Falcon Heavy in the first half of the year, and will send NASA‘s Psyche probe into space in October.
The Falcon 9 will send Crew Dragon capsules to the ISS. A total of four launches are planned from the Kennedy Space Center.
Crew Dragon will also participate in the Polaris Dawn mission, which will send billionaire Jared Issakman into space. Polaris Dawn is one of three planned missions for Issacman, who will take three passengers with him. This launch could take place as early as March.
Another private launch is scheduled for May. Axiom Space is once again organizing a trip on the SpaceX Crew Dragon ship for its customers. Space tourists will spend 10 days on the ISS.
In April, the long-delayed launch of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner will finally make its crewed test flight, sending NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the ISS.
ULA will bring its new Vulcan Centaur rocket to market, expected to launch in early 2023. This is the first of two certification flights ahead of three planned launches for the US Department of Defense.
The payload for the first flight will be Astrobotic’s Peregine lunar lander, which will go to the moon.
Vulcan will also launch Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spacecraft. Sierra Space is a new supplier of commercial cargo to the ISS. The company claims its first mission is scheduled for 2023.
A 3D-printed Relativity Space Terran 1 rocket is at Cape Canaveral awaiting FAA approval for its first launch.
Firefly Aerospace, which made its first successful orbital flight in October, leased a launch from Launch Complex 20.
ABL Space Systems, which plans to launch from Alaska in early 2023, previously announced plans to launch prototype satellites for Project Amazon from one of Canaveral’s launch pads. Kuiper.
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