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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-20 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - March 2, 2025

Launch Date: March 2, 2025 (ET) Launch Time: 9:24 p.m. ET - March 3, 0224 UTC, 03:24 CET Launch Window: Open until 12:21 a.m. ET, March 3. Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ...

Watch live: SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Falcon 9 rocket

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 21 satellites for the Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled f...

Starlink Mission

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

Starlink Group 12-20

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1086 - Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • March 3, 2025, 3:30 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 3, 2025, 2:24 a.m.

Liftoff.



Cosmic_Penguin • March 1, 2025, 4:05 a.m.

GO for launch.


Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 28, 2025, 5:51 p.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
  • 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


B1086

Status: Lost


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: June 25, 2024
Last Flight: March 3, 2025
Flights: 5
Landings Attempted: 5
Landings Successful: 5
Previous B1086 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1086 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 5th flight, however the booster tipped over after a post-landing fire near the tail end damaged one of the legs.

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

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 661 Failures: 15 Pending: 121

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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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