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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 15-3 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - May 9, 2025

Launch Date: May 9, 2025 Launch Time: 5:19 p.m. PDT - May 10, 0019 UTC, 0219 CEST Launch Window: 7:21 p.m. PDT Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA Targeted Orbit: Low Ea...

Watch live: SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites from California on Falcon 9 rocket

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 26 second-generation Starlink internet satellites. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for Friday, May 9, at 5...

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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 15-3

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 4E Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
B1081 - Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 26 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • May 10, 2025, 2:01 a.m.

Launch success.


SwGustav • May 10, 2025, 12:20 a.m.

Liftoff


LL2 • May 10, 2025, 12:09 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


SwGustav • May 10, 2025, 12:01 a.m.

Now targeting May 10 at 00:19 UTC


Cosmic_Penguin • May 9, 2025, 4:52 p.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
  • 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


B1081

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: August 26, 2023
Last Flight: May 10, 2025
Flights: 14
Landings Attempted: 14
Landings Successful: 14
Previous B1081 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1081 has landed on ASDS OCISLY after its 14th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at Of Course I Still Love You.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 497 Failures: 14 Pending: 118

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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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