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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - O3b mPOWER 9 & 10 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - July 22, 2025

Launch Date: July 22, 2025 Launch Time: 5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 UTC, 23:12 CEST) Launch Window: Open for 120 minutes until 7:12 p.m. EDT Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida...

Watch live: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket with SES' 9th and 10th O3b mPOWER satellites

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with the fifth pair of Luxembourg-based SES' fifth pair of O3b mPOWER satellites. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is ...

🚀 LAUNCH: SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches O3b mPOWER 9 & 10

The O3b mPOWER satellites are improved second-generation satellites for the SES-owned O3b Networks. Window Opens: July 22nd at 5:12PM EDT (21:12 UTC) Window Closes: July 22nd at 7:19PM EDT (23:19 UT...

O3b mPOWER Mission

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O3b mPower 9-10

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Overview

Destination: Medium Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Medium Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 60%
B1090 - Just Read the Instructions

2 high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • July 3, 2025, 1:21 a.m.

NET Q3 with 2 satellites on board.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 30, 2025, 7:02 a.m.

NET Summer 2025.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 9, 2025, 5:49 p.m.

NET July.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 15, 2025, 1:46 p.m.

NET July 21.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 16, 2025, 5:13 p.m.

Tweaked launch window.


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
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    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
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  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
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  • 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
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Booster Info


B1090

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: December 17, 2024
Last Flight: October 7, 2025
Flights: 8
Landings Attempted: 8
Landings Successful: 8
Previous B1090 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1090 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 6th flight.

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

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 579 Failures: 15 Pending: 121

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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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