September, peaking September. The notch is October.
Next: Sunday, September 13 — 0 days away, keyed to the published start time
This week: watch — launch falls this week but 40% slip risk means recheck at T-24h, refuge gate closes 7:32pm covering the evening window. Leave by 12:49pm.
- Where
- Titusville causeways / Space Coast
- Drive
- 100 minutes from Lakeland
- In season
- September
- Peak
- September
- Certainty
- datable to the day
- Drone
- no — launch TFR
- Glass
- 24–200mm at f/4 or faster, 1/1000s for ascent, wide for plume against sky, on a tripod
From the field
Status In Flight from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA. 40% of announced dates slip; commit at the T-24h recheck, not the calendar. ACCESS: Merritt Island NWR — Black Point and Bio Lab drives: 7:08am to 7:32pm.