Florida's packed autumn launch manifest: SpaceX leads a week of commercial and crewed missions

A cluster of high-profile commercial and crewed missions is queued for Florida's Space Coast in the coming weeks, according to launch-tracking aggregators rocketlaunch.org and the Visit Space Coast tourism site. The schedules, neither of which is a primary source, list an SES O3b mPower satellite stack atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 for September 13, 2026, followed by a tightly bunched September 29 slate that includes a Blue Origin Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander debut, an Astranis MicroGEO rideshare, an Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) deployment, and the SpaceX Crew-13 rotation to the International Space Station. Florida Today first flagged the launch-week question, though the outlet's own reporting was not available for verification.

The September 13 entry, attributed by rocketlaunch.org to a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5, would carry three Boeing-built O3b mPower satellites into medium Earth orbit for operator SES. O3b mPower is SES's second-generation MEO broadband constellation; the spacecraft use steerable Ka-band beams to deliver connectivity to mobile and government customers. A successful mission would extend a constellation whose first satellites launched in 2022-2023 aboard Falcon 9 and, in at least one case, a prior-generation Soyuz.

A congested September 29 manifest

Visit Space Coast's launch page places four separate missions at the same 8:00 PM slot on September 29, 2026 — almost certainly a placeholder artefact rather than four simultaneous launches. The listed payloads are Blue Origin's Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander on its maiden flight, a five-satellite Astranis MicroGEO cluster bound for custom geostationary slots, an unspecified batch of Amazon Leo broadband satellites, and Crew Dragon carrying the Crew-13 crew. Independent confirmation of any single September 29 launch time is not available in the supplied material.

Where the schedules disagree

The two trackers do not fully agree. Rocketlaunch.org's Crew-13 entry carries a 'launch delayed due to Dragon propulsion system leak' note, contradicting Visit Space Coast's still-active September 29 listing. The same source flags Amazon Leo as reverted to 'NET 2026' after a New Glenn GS1 booster static-fire incident, with the payload reportedly not loaded for that test. Both sources also list multiple future US Space Force and National Reconnaissance Office missions from Florida without firm dates.

Beyond the headline week

Looking further out, the aggregators project a Falcon Heavy ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific mission for April 29, 2026, an October 30 Falcon 9 Bandwagon 5 dedicated rideshare, and a December 30 Starliner-1 crewed flight — the latter carrying Boeing's CST-100 Starliner to the ISS for its first operational mission after the 2024 Crew Flight Test anomalies. Rocketlaunch.org's Florida hub lists 139 scheduled launches in total, though that figure mixes manifested, tentative and 'NET [year]' entries rather than confirmed upcoming flights.

What remains unverified

No SpaceX, NASA, Blue Origin, SES or Boeing statement was provided to corroborate the dates, payload counts, or launch times above. The 'this week' framing from the original Florida Today headline cannot be tied to a specific flight without primary confirmation, and several of the September 29 slots are almost certainly placeholders. Readers planning to watch should rely on the Space Launch Delta 45 hazard and airspace notices — linked from Visit Space Coast — rather than on the aggregator schedules alone.