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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-10 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - September 13, 2025

Launch Date: September 13, 2025 Launch Time: 10:55 a.m. PDT (1755 UTC, 19:55 CEST) Launch Window: Open until 12:41 p.m. PDT Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California Targeted Orb...

Watch Live: SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites from California on Falcon 9 rocket

Watch a live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket from California with 24 optimized Starlink v2 Mini internet satellites. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space For...

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Starlink Group 17-10

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 4E Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
B1071 - Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 13, 2025, 7:01 p.m.

Launch success.


Nosu • Sept. 13, 2025, 5:56 p.m.

Liftoff


LL2 • Sept. 13, 2025, 5:45 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 13, 2025, 1:12 p.m.

Now targeting Sep 13 at 17:55 UTC


Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 12, 2025, 10:59 p.m.

New 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


B1071

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: February 2, 2022
Last Flight: November 28, 2025
Flights: 30
Landings Attempted: 30
Landings Successful: 30
Previous B1071 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1071 landed on ASDS OCISLY after its 28th 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: 610 Failures: 15 Pending: 123

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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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