A NASA/contractor team is in place to meet the mission of the Launch Services Program, which exists to provide leadership, expertise and cost-effective services in the commercial arena to satisfy Agency wide space transportation requirements and maximize the opportunity for mission success.

NASA awarded contracts to launch services contractors to support Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) missions in January 2022 and again in August 2024.

The wing also provided its vast network of radar, telemetry, and communications instrumentation to facilitate a safe launch on the Eastern Range.

[22][23][24][25] The LSP management, business office, and engineering teams support from the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center.

[26] The Launch Services Program operates Hangar AE on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

By example, the LSP Flight Design team provides general information regarding the launch vehicle performance available via existing NASA contracts.

[70] Research and technical analysis topics include: SPHERES-Slosh will be performed on the SPHERES Testbed on the International Space Station.

The experiment launched on the Cygnus capsule going to the ISS via Orbital Sciences Corporation Commercial Resupply Services Orb-1 mission on an Antares on 2014.01.09.

[87] The SPHERES-Slosh investigation uses small robotic satellites on the International Space Station to examine how liquids move around inside containers in microgravity.

During testing, the SPHERES will move to purposely agitate the water and cause the fluid inside to slosh around, like it might in a rocket or spacecraft tank during flight.

"The current inability to accurately predict fuel and oxidizer behavior can result in unnecessary caution, requiring extra propellant to be added along with additional helium for tank pressurization.

A better understanding of fluid slosh could not only decrease this uncertainty, but increase efficiency, reduce costs and allow additional payloads to be launched.

NASA's Brandon Marsell, co-principal investigator on the Slosh Project: "Modern computer models try to predict how liquid moves inside a propellant tank.

Distance learning via video conference connects students to LSP experts[119] The office also coordinates activities and educational booths at events for NASA and the public.

In 2014, as a part of the White House Maker Initiative, CSLI announced its intention to launch 50 small satellites from 50 states within five years.

As of July 2014, there were 21 "rookie states" that had not previously been selected by the CSLI[127] In October 2015, NASA's LSP, with funding partnered by Earth Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, "awarded multiple Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) contracts to provide small satellites (SmallSats) -- also called CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites -- access to low-Earth orbit."

The intention of the VCLS contracts is to provide alternatives to the current rideshare-type approach for launch of small satellites.

FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1592 (the Bionic Tigers) is out of Cocoa High School (CHS) and Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy.

[129] Merritt Island High School, in partnership with California Polytechnic State University, has a team building a CubeSat as part of Kennedy Space Center's Creating Understanding and Broadening Education through Satellite (CUBES) pilot project.

[132] The satellite, named StangSat after the school's Mustang mascot, will collect data on the amount of shock and vibration experienced by payloads while in orbit.,[133] On June 15, 2013, the team launched an engineering unit of StangSat on the Prospector-18 rocket;[134] the suborbital flight took off from the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in California's Mojave Desert.

[135] The other satellites on board were Rocket University Broad Initiatives CubeSat, or RUBICS-1 (KSC); PhoneSat (ARC); and CP-9 (CalPoly).

[139] NASA Kennedy Space Center social media accounts frequently post news involving LSP activities.