Cape Canaveral: Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, Axiom, ULA rocket launch schedule at Cape Canaveral Following stage separation, the Falcon 9 first-stage booster touched down atop the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean, concluding its fourth flight. This booster previously launched the SES O3b mPOWER-E, Crew-10 and Bandwagon-3 missions, SpaceX reported. On April 28, United Launch Alliance logged a local daylight liftoff by launching an Atlas V with five solid rocket boosters at 7:01 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, less than an hour before sunset. That high-profile mission carried Amazon's first production batch of Project Kuiper satellites into low-Earth orbit. In a highly favorable forecast for SpaceX's May 14 mission, the Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron had predicted odds of "go for launch" weather at 95%, with cumulus clouds posing only "a very small chance of a violation." Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex officials opened SpaceX launch viewing areas at the Apollo/Saturn V Center (about 6.2 miles from the pad) and the Atlantis North Lawn (about 6.7 miles from the pad, starting at 11 a.m. SpaceX's lunch-hour liftoff clocked in as the 42nd orbital rocket launch thus far during 2025 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's neighboring Kennedy Space Center. For the latest news and launch schedule from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center, visit floridatoday.com/space.