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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-13 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - February 26, 2025

Launch Date: February 26, 2025 (ET) Launch Time: 10:34 p.m. ET - February 27, 0334 UTC, 04:34 CET Launch Window: February 26, 2:19 a.m. ET Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fl...

Watch live: SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Falcon 9 rocket

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 21 second-generation Starlink internet satellites. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Wednesday, F...

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 12-13

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 99%
B1092 - Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 18, 2025, 5:46 a.m.

Added launch per NOTAMs F0682/25.

hitura-nobad • Feb. 21, 2025, 4 p.m.

Weather is 75% GO.

Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 22, 2025, 3:08 a.m.

GO for launch.

Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 23, 2025, 6:07 p.m.

Delayed to February 25 UTC.

Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 24, 2025, 2:40 a.m.

Tweaked T-0.

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
―
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Booster Info

B1092

Status: Active

Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: February 27, 2025
Last Flight: June 28, 2025

Flights: 5
Landings Attempted: 5
Landings Successful: 5

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1092 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 1st flight.

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

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 525 Failures: 15 Pending: 119

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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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