
Doubleheader launch day: Two SpaceX rocket launches in Florida set to kick off July
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- Jun 30, 2025
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When is the next Florida launch? Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, Axiom, ULA rocket launch schedule at Cape Canaveral
Also onboard the satellite is the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission spectrometer. This spectrometer will capture data every 60 minutes on air quality and pollution in Europe and northern Africa. The mission is an addition to the Sentinel-5 and Sentinel-5P missions which currently observe from a polar orbit.
It's not the only air quality sensor in orbit. Sentinel-4 will be Europe's addition to a global constellation of geostationary air quality sensors.
"It will work alongside the Korean sensor Gems, observing air pollution over Asia, and NASA sensor Tempo, measuring air pollution over North America," states the European Space Agency's website.
SpaceX Starlink rocket launch in Florida hours later
Just hours later on Wednesday, July 2, the Space Coast will see the second SpaceX launch take off no earlier than 1:29 a.m. from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX has yet to confirm the exact target time, but weather at both the launch site and booster landing site will play a role in timing.
The mission is known as Starlink 12-25, and will be the latest batch of Starlink internet satellites. After launch, the rocket will travel on a northeast trajectory. With the booster landing on a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, no Space Coast sonic booms will be heard.
The FLORIDA TODAY Space Team will provide live updates beginning 90 minutes prior to each liftoff at FloridaToday.com/Space.
Brooke Edwards is a Space Reporter for Florida Today. Contact her at bedwards@floridatoday.com or on X: @brookeofstars.
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