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Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starfall reentry demonstration mission from Cape Canaveral

Watch live coverage as a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a demonstration mission for a new SpaceX re-entry vehicle called Starfall.. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Tuesday, June 23, at 6:53 a.m. EDT (1053 UTC). The first-stage Falcon 9 booster, serial …

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starfall Demo

Starfall is SpaceX's mass-produced reentry vehicle designed to autonomously transport valuable customer experiments and other payloads safely back from space to Earth, including for in-orbit manufacturing. Starfall is a cylindrical-shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters, weighing approximately 2,100 kilograms, and capable of carrying 1,000 …

Starfall Demo 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.

Project Starfall Demonstration Mission

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Technology

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 95%
B1078 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

Note: Mission profile and payload details are TBD. Demonstration mission for SpaceX’s Project Starfall, which aims to mass-produce reentry capsules designed to autonomously transport valuable customer experiments and other payloads safely back from space to Earth, including for in-orbit manufacturing. Starfall is a cylindrical shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters, weighing approximately 2100 kilograms, and capable of carrying 1000 kilograms of payload. It is designed to be carried on Starship flights.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • June 18, 2026, 4:45 p.m.

Delayed to NET June 23.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 19, 2026, 5:12 a.m.

GO for launch.



Cosmic_Penguin • June 23, 2026, 12:29 a.m.

Now targeting Jun 23 at 10:53 UTC


LL2 • June 23, 2026, 10:38 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


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


B1078

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: March 2, 2023
Last Flight: June 23, 2026
Flights: 29
Landings Attempted: 29
Landings Successful: 29
Previous B1078 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1078 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 29th flight.

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

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 694 Failures: 15 Pending: 126

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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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