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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-12 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live

Launch Date: February 18, 2025 Launch Time: 6:21 p.m. ET, 2321 UTC - February 19, 00:21 CET Launch Window: 9:35 p.m. ET Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA Targete...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 23 satellites for Elon Musk's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is sch...

🚀SpaceX Falcon 9 Attempts Landing in the Bahamas for the First Time

SpaceX launch of a batch of Starlink satellites for their second generation high-speed low-Earth orbit internet satellite constellation. The first booster landing within The Bahamas, following an agre...

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Starlink Group 10-12

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 95%
B1080 - Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. First Starlink launch to feature a Falcon 9 booster landing within The Bahamas waters.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 19, 2025, 12:48 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 18, 2025, 11:28 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Feb. 18, 2025, 10:55 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


hitura-nobad • Feb. 18, 2025, 8:26 p.m.

Now targeting Feb 18 at 23:21 UTC


Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 18, 2025, 2:41 a.m.

Tweaked T-0.


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
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    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


B1080

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: May 21, 2023
Last Flight: February 18, 2025
Flights: 16
Landings Attempted: 16
Landings Successful: 16
Previous B1080 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1080 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 16th launch.

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

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 471 Failures: 14 Pending: 107

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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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