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Live: SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites aboard Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 satellites for Elon Musk's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Friday, May 1, at 2:06 p.m. EDT (1806 UTC). The first-stage booster, B1069, is launching for …

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 10-38

Launch window: May 1st from 1:33PM to 5:33PM EDT (17:33-21:33 UTC) Current T0: May 1st at 1:33PM EDT (17:33 UTC) Mission: Falcon 9 launch of 29 Starlink v2 Mini satellites into orbit. Launch location: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth. Target orbit: Low-Earth Orbit (LEO); …

Starlink 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.

Starlink Group 10-38

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 80%
B1069 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • May 1, 2026, 7:12 p.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • May 1, 2026, 6:07 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • May 1, 2026, 5:54 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started



Cosmic_Penguin • May 1, 2026, 4:22 p.m.

Now targeting May 01 at 18:06 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


B1069

Status: Expended


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: December 21, 2021
Last Flight: July 21, 2026
Flights: 32
Landings Attempted: 31
Landings Successful: 31
Previous B1069 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1069 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 31st flight.

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

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 712 Failures: 15 Pending: 125

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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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Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX marks May Day with Starlink mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

The Starlink 10-38 mission will see SpaceX deploy 29 broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 1:35 p.m. EDT (1735 UTC).

NASASpaceflight

Launch Preview: Falcon Heavy returns, Atlas V and Ariane 6 to launch Amazon Leo satellites

Six launches are expected from Florida, California, and French Guiana this week, with SpaceX scheduled… The post Launch Preview: Falcon Heavy returns, Atlas V and Ariane 6 to launch Amazon Leo satellites appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.…

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Space Launch Complex 40


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A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


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