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In 2025 the Eastern and Western Ranges accounted for all but one orbital launch from the United States, with the exception being a Rocket Lab Electron launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia.
The Eastern Range is considering redeveloping Space Launch Complex 46 for large launch vehicles.
Atlas V, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan accounted for the non-SpaceX orbital launches from the Eastern Range in 2025.
Space Launch Delta 45 leadership expects launch activity from the Eastern Range to continue growing toward hundreds of launches per year.
The Eastern Range hosted nearly double its goal with 93 launches in 2024.
The Eastern Range announced an initiative called 'Drive to 48' in 2017 to host 48 launches a year.
Commercial launch activity on the Eastern Range in 2024 provided indirect benefits for military operations by enhancing infrastructure resilience and rapid response capabilities.
Space Launch Delta 45 implemented new processes in 2024 to reduce turnaround times between launches on the Eastern Range.
SpaceX accounted for 88 of 93 launches from the Eastern Range in Florida, which includes Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Kennedy Space Center.
United Launch Alliance performed five launches from the Eastern Range in 2024.
SpaceX received permission from the Eastern Range in 2020 to conduct Falcon 9 launches on southern trajectories to access polar orbits from Cape Canaveral.
Space Launch Delta 45 operates the Eastern Range, which includes the Cape Canaveral Spaceport and Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
USSF-31 is a classified mission that will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon rocket from the Eastern range.
NROL-64 will launch aboard United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket from the Eastern range.
Space Launch Delta 45 is the Space Force unit that oversees launch operations in the Eastern Range.
Space Launch Delta 45 received 329 requests for launch dates on the Eastern Range in the past 12 months and approved 238 of those requests.
Space Launch Delta 45, which operates the Eastern Range, assigned three sites at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to four startups on 2023-03-07.
Space Launch Delta 45 operates the Eastern Range.
The Launch Pad Allocation Strategy was developed to maximize the launch capacity of the Eastern Range while minimizing impacts that commercial launch service providers create for other providers during adjacent operations.
The side boosters used on USSF-67 were the same boosters used for USSF-44, which launched from the Eastern Range on 2022-11-01.