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Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 3 Bluebird satellites + rocket stage moon impact coverage

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying three BlueBird satellites for AST SpaceMobile’s cellphone service from space. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Wednesday, August 5, at 3:42 a.m. EDT (0742 UTC). Inside the payload fairing are …

SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 with Bluebird 11-13

Launch Window: August 5th from 3:42AM to 5:18AM EDT (07:42-09:18 UTC) Current T0: August 5th at 3:42AM EDT (07:42 UTC) Mission: Falcon 9 launch of Bluebird 11, 12, and 13 satellites for AST Space Mobile Launch location: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth. Target orbit: …

BlueBird 11-13 Mission

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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.

BlueBird 11-13 (Block 2 #6-8)

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 75%
B1077 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched. This launch will feature 3 satellites.

Telemetry

Launch trajectory and telemetry simulations provided by Flight Club - a rocket launch simulator and orbital trajectory visualiser for all things space!

Updates


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 5, 2026, 9:02 a.m.

All satellites have separated.


hitura-nobad • Aug. 5, 2026, 7:49 a.m.

Liftoff!


LL2 • Aug. 5, 2026, 7:26 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


hitura-nobad • Aug. 5, 2026, 7:03 a.m.

Now targeting Aug 05 at 07:49 UTC


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


B1077

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: October 5, 2022
Last Flight: August 5, 2026
Flights: 30
Landings Attempted: 30
Landings Successful: 30
Previous B1077 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1077 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 30th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at A Shortfall of Gravitas.

SpaceX

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 711 Failures: 15 Pending: 124

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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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