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Falcon 9 - B1096

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Falcon 9 booster.

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-87

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 10, 2025, 10:12 p.m.

Status: Go for Launch

Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit B1096 - Flight Proven ( ) Just Read the Instructions

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Previous Flights

B1096 flew on two previous launch(es).

Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 24, 2025, 11:30 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models. The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On - L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth's exosphere.

Heliocentric L1 B1096 - Flight Proven ( ) Just Read the Instructions

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Project Kuiper (KF-01)

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
July 16, 2025, 6:30 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

First of a three launches contract for Amazon's Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation, with 24 satellites on board.

Low Earth Orbit B1096 - Maiden Flight A Shortfall of Gravitas

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Recent Launches

Long March 7A

Success

13 hours, 26 minutes ago

Yaogan 46

201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Classified Earth observation satellite officially reported as for "national resources/hydrology/meteorology surveying & disaster management" purposes.

LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)

Success

1 day, 5 hours ago

CMS-03 (GSAT-7R)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Communications Satellite for the Indian Navy, replacing GSAT-7 for secure real-time links between Indian warships, submarines, aircraft, and shore-ba…

Falcon 9

Success

1 day, 12 hours ago

Bandwagon 4 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Falcon 9

Success

2 days, 20 hours ago

Starlink Group 11-23

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

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

Long March 2

Success

3 days, 1 hour ago

Shenzhou 21

Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Tenth crewed flight to the Chinese space station.