United States Air Force

US launch schedule and recent history.

Launch times are typically listed as NET (No Earlier Than) and can shift due to weather, range availability, or vehicle readiness. For coverage and more detail, open an individual launch page.

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What this provider page answers

This page is the provider-level schedule hub for United States Air Force: upcoming missions, recent launch history, where those missions launch from, and which exact launch records own the details.

Canonical: /launch-providers/united-states-air-force

Next listed launch

No upcoming United States Air Force launch is currently listed in the public schedule feed.

Schedule depth

0 upcoming and 200 recent launches are attached to this provider view, spanning 42 vehicles and 13 pads when those fields are available.

Canonical ownership

This route owns United States Air Force provider schedule intent; individual launch pages own mission details, weather, media, and exact status history.

Provider profile

This section turns the schedule rows into provider-specific context for United States Air Force: organization metadata, launch vehicles seen in the feed, launch-site coverage, and the exact mission records that carry source-level detail.

Provider identity

type: Government. country: USA. The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.

Launch vehicle mix

Delta II 7925 (34 launches), Delta II 7925-9.5 (22 launches), Delta II 7920-10C (13 launches), Titan II SLV (11 launches)

Launch site mix

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA (135 launches), Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA (65 launches)

Source and freshness notes

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Schedule interpretation

Treat provider pages as an operator-level index. A date-only NET means the day is known but the launch time is still unsettled; the exact mission page carries final timing, holds, scrubs, and source-specific updates.

Most recent listed launch: Delta II | GPS IIR-16(M), dated Nov 17, 2006, 2:12 PM EST.

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Upcoming launches

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Recent launches

200 items

Delta II | GPS IIR-16(M)
Delta II 7925-9.5 • SLC-17A
Nov 17, 2006, 2:12 PM EST
Launch site: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA (FL)
Delta IV M | DMSP F-17
Delta IV M • SLC-6
Nov 04, 2006, 5:53 AM PST
Launch site: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA (CA)
Delta II | STEREO A & B
Delta II 7925-10L • SLC-17B
Oct 25, 2006, 8:52 PM EDT
Launch site: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA (FL)
Delta II | GPS IIR-15(M)
Delta II 7925-9.5 • SLC-17A
Sep 25, 2006, 2:50 PM EDT
Launch site: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA (FL)
Delta IV M+(4,2) | NROL-22