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The next space launch, retrieved from our Launch Library 2 API, is Falcon 9 Block 5 | MRV-1. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA at 2026-07-21 21:15:00 UTC. Until then, this pad will have been used for 393 out of 1121 launches from this location. The launch status is currently Go 🟩 . The mission type is Mission Extension and the payload will be injected into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).

The Northrop Grumman/SpaceLogistics MRV-1 is a mission extension payload including a mission robotic vehicle (MRV) and multiple mission extension pods (MEPs). The MRV is designed to attach up to 30 MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) to various satellites in GEO over the course of its life, and the MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) are 400 kg spacecraft designed to be captured by the MRV and then attached to a customer's satellite. A single MEP can extend a 2000 kg satellite's service life by up to 6 years.

For this mission, 2 of the MEP's will service satellites for Intelsat, while the third will service a satellite for Optus.

• [2026-07-21 21:15:00 UTC] 🟩 Falcon 9 Block 5 | MRV-1 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.
• [2026-07-22 02:44:00 UTC] 🟩 Gravity-1 | Unknown Payload from Haiyang Oriental Spaceport.
• [2026-07-23 11:52:00 UTC] 🟩 Long March 3B/E | Unknown Payload from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China.
• [2026-07-23 22:45:00 UTC] 🟩 Starship | Flight 13 from SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA.
• [2026-07-23 23:24:00 UTC] 🟩 Kinetica 1 | Unknown Payload from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China.
• [2026-07-25 14:00:00 UTC] 🟩 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-51 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.
• [2026-07-29 02:00:00 UTC] 🟩 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-52 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.
• [2026-07-29 11:42:00 UTC] 🟩 Long March 7A | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China.
• [2026-07-30 06:37:00 UTC] 🟨 Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-95 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.
• [2026-07-31 00:00:00 UTC] 🟧 Electron | LOXSAT 1 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand.

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