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

Watch live coverage as a Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying the GPS 3-8 navigation satellite. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 2:53 a.m. EDT (0653 UTC) on Tuesday, April 21. The first-stage booster, making its seventh flight, will land on SpaceX's …

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches GPS-III SV10 (GPS III-8)

Launch Window: April 20th from 2:57AM to 3:12AM EDT (06:57-07:12 UTC) Current T0: April 20th at 2:57AM EDT (06:57 UTC) Mission: Falcon 9 launch of the GPS-III SV10 Hedy Lamarr satellite for the US Space Force Launch location: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth. Target …

GPS III-8 Mission

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GPS III SV10

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Overview

Destination: Medium Earth Orbit
Mission: Navigation

Medium Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1095 - Just Read the Instructions

Tenth of ten GPS III missions.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • April 21, 2026, 9:36 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 21, 2026, 8:23 a.m.

Spacecraft separation.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 21, 2026, 6:53 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • April 21, 2026, 6:37 a.m.

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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


B1095

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: May 21, 2025
Last Flight: April 21, 2026
Flights: 7
Landings Attempted: 7
Landings Successful: 7
Previous B1095 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1095 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 7th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at Just Read the Instructions.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 663 Failures: 15 Pending: 123

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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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