AstroForge Autonomy-1 (Demo Flight)

Nova, Stoke Space

Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Launch time

No earlier than

NET Q1 2027

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Source updated Tue 22 Sept, 18:07 CEST

Updated 11 Oct, 00:22 CEST

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Slip history

No changes since we started tracking on Sat 10 Oct 2026, 11:02 UTC.

Tue 22 Sept 2026, 16:07 UTCLL2 update
Updated payload identity (see also https://www.astroforge.com/updates-collection/introducing-autonomy-1-the-first-autonomous-space-mission-powered-by-solo).
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Tue 8 Sept 2026, 13:33 UTCLL2 update
NET early 2027
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Sat 15 Nov 2025, 20:49 UTCLL2 update
Added launch.
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Mission

AstroForge Autonomy-1 (Demo Flight) on Nova from Space Launch Complex 14. Launch time, status and recorded date changes from Launch Library 2.

First launch of Stoke Space’s Nova launch vehicle. Asteroid mining technologies company AstroForge's Autonomy-1 will fly on this launch. Autonomy-1 will be the first full-scale flight demonstration of AstroForge's own spacecraft artificial intelligence model, Solo. The spacecraft will be tested for functionality in orbit without being commanded from the ground, and will transmit telemetry and science data back to Earth without human interference, including from COMPASS, a heliophysics science payload from NASA Goddard.

Mission type: Test Flight
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Launch timeline

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Launch pad

Space Launch Complex 14

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA (US)

Coordinates: 28.49103, -80.54687

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