Ready for 156 Space Coast launches this year, Space Force targets bottlenecks The 10 launches in January is a little short of the 13 on average the Space Force is prepared for in 2025 with as many as 156 possible missions to be flown by the end of the year. United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket is expected to be certified by the Space Force to fly national security missions by the end of February and its return to the launch pad could come soon after while Blue Origin plans to fly its second New Glenn mission some time this spring. SpaceX, meanwhile, will continue its frenetic launch pace of Falcon 9 rockets from its two pads on the Space Coast. That includes the first human spaceflights of the year with the upcoming private polar orbit mission Fram2 and the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station in late March followed by the Axiom Space Ax-4 mission also targeted for spring. SpaceX also has the next moonbound mission on tap for no earlier than Feb. 6 when Intuitive Machines flies its IM-2 mission trying to follow up the partial success of IM-1 last year sending another Nova-C landing named Athena to the lunar surface. Originally Published: