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Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches three BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites from Cape Canaveral

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying three satellites for for AST SpaceMobile’s space-based cellular service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Wednesday, June 17, at 2:39 a.m. EDT (0639 UTC). The BlueBird 8, 9 and 10 …

SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 with Bluebird 8 to 10

Launch Window: June 17th from 2:39AM to 4:15AM EDT (06:39-08:15 UTC) Current T0: June 17th at 2:39AM EDT (06:39 UTC) Mission: Falcon 9 launch of 3 BlueBird Block 2 satellites for AST Space Mobile Launch location: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth. Target orbit: Low-Earth …

BlueBird 8-10 Mission

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Webcast: AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 8-10 Mission Live Launch

AST SpaceMobile is scheduled to launch its next-generation satellites, BlueBird 8-10, to low Earth orbit on June 17 at 2:39 AM EDT. The satellite will liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. Watch AST SpaceMobile's live show featuring launch status updates, new videos, interviews with special guests, …

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BlueBird 8-10 (Block 2 #3-5)

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1077 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched. This launch will feature 3 satellites.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • June 17, 2026, 10:08 a.m.

Launch success with all satellites in contact.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 17, 2026, 7:47 a.m.

All 3 satellites have been separated.


hitura-nobad • June 17, 2026, 6:39 a.m.

Liftoff!


LL2 • June 17, 2026, 6:21 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started



Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1077

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: October 5, 2022
Last Flight: June 17, 2026
Flights: 29
Landings Attempted: 29
Landings Successful: 29
Previous B1077 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1077 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 29th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at A Shortfall of Gravitas.

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 695 Failures: 15 Pending: 129

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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