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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 15-6 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - June 12, 2025

Launch Date: June 12, 2025 (PDT) Launch Time: 6:54 p.m. PDT - June 13, 0154 UTC, 03:54 CEST Launch Window: Open until 9:59 p.m. PDT Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA T...

Live: SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg, California

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 26 optimized Starlink v2 Mini internet satellites. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 6:54 p.m. PDT (9:54...

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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 15-6

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.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • June 13, 2025, 3:01 a.m.

Launch success.

Cosmic_Penguin • June 13, 2025, 1:55 a.m.

Liftoff.

LL2 • June 13, 2025, 1:44 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started

Cosmic_Penguin • June 12, 2025, 7:04 p.m.

GO for launch.

Cosmic_Penguin • June 2, 2025, 3:48 p.m.

Added launch.

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
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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
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Booster Info

B1081

Status: Active

Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: August 26, 2023
Last Flight: June 13, 2025

Flights: 15
Landings Attempted: 15
Landings Successful: 15

Previous B1081 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1081 has landed on ASDS OCISLY after its 15th flight.

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

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 523 Failures: 15 Pending: 116

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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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