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Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-15 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - May 20, 2025

Launch Date: May 20, 2025 (EDT) Launch Time: 11:19 p.m. EDT - May 21, 0319 UTC, 05:19 CEST Launch Window: Open until 11:26 p.m. EDT Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida,...

Watch live: SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on brand new Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

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Starlink Group 12-15

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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%
B1095 - Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • May 21, 2025, 4:27 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • May 21, 2025, 3:19 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • May 21, 2025, 3:09 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • May 20, 2025, 11:27 p.m.

Tweaked T-0.


Cosmic_Penguin • May 20, 2025, 7:50 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
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  • 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: No
First Flight: May 21, 2025
Last Flight: May 21, 2025
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1
Landings Successful: 1

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1095 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 1st flight.

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

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 503 Failures: 15 Pending: 115

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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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