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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-74 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - April 24, 2025

Launch Date: April 24, 2025 (EDT) Launch Time: 9:52 p.m. EDT - April 25, 0152 UTC, 0352 UTC Launch Window: Open until April 25, 1:28 a.m. EDT Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Statio...

Watch live: 28 Starlink satellites launch from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 28 satellites for the company's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is s...

🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starlink 6-74 Mission

SpaceX launches a new batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites aboard Falcon 9, expanding its second-generation low Earth orbit (LEO) internet constellation. These next-gen Starlink satellites are designe...

Starlink Mission

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SpaceX

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 6-74

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 99%
B1069 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

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

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 • April 25, 2025, 3:26 a.m.

Launch success.


SwGustav • April 25, 2025, 1:54 a.m.

Liftoff


Cosmic_Penguin • April 24, 2025, 2:52 a.m.

Tweaked T-0.


hitura-nobad • April 23, 2025, 8:50 p.m.

Now targeting Apr 25 at 01:52 UTC. Setting Go.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 15, 2025, 3:56 a.m.

Delayed to NET April 25 per new NOTAMs.


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 1st stage B1069 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 23rd 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: 714 Failures: 15 Pending: 129

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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.

INFO WIKI
Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

The mission will be the 30th Starlink launch of the year for SpaceX. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is targeted for Thursday, April 24, at 9:52 p.m. EDT (0152 UTC).

NASASpaceflight

Launch Roundup: China to launch crew, Falcon 9 to launch Bandwagon rideshare

This week, China will launch three taikonauts to the Tiangong space station. SpaceX’s Falcon 9… The post Launch Roundup: China to launch crew, Falcon 9 to launch Bandwagon rideshare appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

The Launch Pad

Weekly Pre Launch Preview: 4 Falcons, ISS Resupply, Recon Satellites, and G60 Constellation Launch

Weekly Pre Launch Preview: 4 Falcons, ISS Resupply, Recon Satellites, and G60 Constellation Launch

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Space Launch Complex 40


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PIESAT-2 13-16
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4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for the Chinese Earth observation satellite company PIESAT.


Electron
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Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
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43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

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Kuaizhou 11
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SpaceTY-51 & 52
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2 Earth observation radar satellites built by the Chinese satellite manufacturer SpaceTY.


Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 20 hours ago
USSF-259
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

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Long March 12
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2 days, 20 hours ago
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Commercial LC-2 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…


Soyuz 2.1b
Success
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Progress MS-35 (96P)
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.


Gravity-1
Success
3 days, 23 hours ago
SpaceSail Polar Group #16
Yellow Sea (launch location 5) - Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with …


Zhuque-2E Block 2
Success
4 days, 15 hours ago
SpaceSail Polar Group #15
Launch Area 96A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

10 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with…


Vega-C
Success
4 days, 20 hours ago
Sentinel-3C & FLEX
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