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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-80 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - March 31, 2025

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Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with 28 Starlink satellites

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🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starlink Group 6-80

SpaceX launch of a batch of Starlink v2-mini satellites for their second generation high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation. ⚡ Become a member of NASASpaceflight's channel for ex...

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Starlink Group 6-80

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 65%
B1080 - Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • March 31, 2025, 11:26 p.m.

Launch success.


hitura-nobad • March 31, 2025, 7:53 p.m.

Liftoff!


LL2 • March 31, 2025, 7:42 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • March 31, 2025, 2:39 p.m.

Updated launch window.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 31, 2025, 2:54 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
  • 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


B1080

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: May 21, 2023
Last Flight: September 25, 2025
Flights: 22
Landings Attempted: 22
Landings Successful: 22
Previous B1080 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1080 will attempt to land on ASDS JRTI after its 17th flight.

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

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 583 Failures: 15 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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