Launch Detail
Pulling launch timing, vehicle context, weather signals, and mission evidence.
Launch detail
SpaceX • Falcon 9 Block 5 • Space Launch Complex 40 (FL)
SpaceX • Falcon 9 Block 5 • SLC-40
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Planned targets around liftoff.
Official @SpaceX post matched to this launch.
Open the launch pad in Google Maps satellite mode using the pad coordinates.
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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.
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.
Provider, rocket, pad, and booster history tied to this launch.
Core-level mission cadence associated with this launch.
Matched SpaceX launch-page assets and outbound media links for this launch.
Launch-stage and landing context surfaced from LL2 when it exists.
Falcon 9 booster debuting on Starlink Group 12-15.
NWS forecast for the pad location at T-0 (api.weather.gov).
Forecast for the pad location at T-0, sourced from api.weather.gov.
