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Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches GPS navigation satellite from Cape Canaveral

Watch live coverage as a Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying the GPS 3-9 navigation satellite. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 11:53 p.m. EST (0453 UTC) on Tuesday, Jan. 27. The first-stage booster, making its fifth flight, will land on SpaceX's …

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches GPS-III SV09

Launch window: January 27th from 11:38PM to 11:53PM EST (04:38-04:53 UTC on the 28th) Current T0: January 27th at 11:38PM EST (04:38 UTC on the 28th) Mission: Falcon 9 launch of the GPS-III SV09 satellite, named Ellison Onizuka, for the US Space Force. Launch location: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), …

GPS III-9 Mission

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GPS III SV09

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Overview

Destination: Medium Earth Orbit
Mission: Navigation

Medium Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 99%
B1096 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

Ninth of ten GPS III missions.

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Updates


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 28, 2026, 6:23 a.m.

Spacecraft separation.


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 28, 2026, 4:53 a.m.

Liftoff.


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 28, 2026, 3:58 a.m.

Now targeting Jan 28 at 04:53 UTC


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 27, 2026, 5:16 a.m.

Tweaked T-0.


Falcon 9

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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


B1096

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: July 16, 2025
Last Flight: May 15, 2026
Flights: 6
Landings Attempted: 6
Landings Successful: 6
Previous B1096 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1096 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 5th flight.

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

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 668 Failures: 15 Pending: 126

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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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