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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-83 - LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - May 13, 2025

Launch Date: May 13, 2025 Launch Time: 1:02 a.m. EDT, 0502 UTC, 07:02 CEST Launch Window: Open until 3:31 a.m. EDT Launch Site: LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA Targeted Orbit: Low Eart...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 28 satellites for the Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for Monday, M...

🚀 Booster 14-2 Rolls to Launch Pad & Falcon 9 Launches Starlink 6-83 Mission

SpaceX is rolling out the next Booster for Starship Flight 9 out to the pad,. The Booster already flew on Starship Flight 7, and will go for its second flight. It is unclear if it will be caught again...

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 6-83

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1067 - Just Read the Instructions

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

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • May 13, 2025, 6:13 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • May 13, 2025, 5:02 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • May 13, 2025, 4:58 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • May 13, 2025, 1:32 a.m.

New T-0 and updated launch weather.



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


B1067

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: June 3, 2021
Last Flight: August 25, 2026
Flights: 37
Landings Attempted: 37
Landings Successful: 37
Previous B1067 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1067 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 28th flight.

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

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
Arstechnica

Rocket Report: How is your payload fairing? Poland launches test rocket.

No thunder down under.

NASASpaceflight

Launch Roundup: Orbital launches from five countries planned

On the heels of a busy April, activity is ramping up for May with launches… The post Launch Roundup: Orbital launches from five countries planned appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: 28 Starlink satellites to launch on Falcon 9 booster making record breaking 28th flight

The Starlink 6-83 mission will also mark SpaceX’s 100th Falcon 9 launch from Launch Complex 39A. Liftoff is targeted for 12:06 a.m. EDT (0406 UTC).

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch Complex 39A


Long March 2D
Success
11 hours, 14 minutes ago
PIESAT-2 13-16
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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


Electron
Success
18 hours, 42 minutes ago
Owl By The Dozen (StriX Launch 12)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.


Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Success
2 days, 5 hours ago
Glonass-K1 No. 20 (?)
43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Note: Satellite serial number and Cosmos designation not confirmed. Glonass-K are the third generation of satellite design for GLONASS satellite n…


Kuaizhou 11
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2 days, 19 hours ago
SpaceTY-51 & 52
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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

USSF-259 is a classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield …


Long March 12
Success
2 days, 21 hours ago
SatNet LEO Group 25
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
3 days, 8 hours ago
Progress MS-35 (96P)
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.


Gravity-1
Success
4 days 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
Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) - Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Sentinel-3C is the third satellite in the Sentinel-3 constellation, which provides high-accuracy optical, radar and altimetry data for marine and lan…