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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-74 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - April 24, 2025

Launch Date: April 24, 2025 (EDT) Launch Time: 9:52 p.m. EDT - April 25, 0152 UTC, 0352 UTC Launch Window: Open until April 25, 1:28 a.m. EDT Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Statio...

Watch live: 28 Starlink satellites launch from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 28 satellites for the company's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is s...

🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starlink 6-74 Mission

SpaceX launches a new batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites aboard Falcon 9, expanding its second-generation low Earth orbit (LEO) internet constellation. These next-gen Starlink satellites are designe...

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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 6-74

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 99%
B1069 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

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

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • April 15, 2025, 3:56 a.m.

Delayed to NET April 25 per new NOTAMs.


hitura-nobad • April 23, 2025, 8:50 p.m.

Now targeting Apr 25 at 01:52 UTC. Setting Go.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 24, 2025, 2:52 a.m.

Tweaked T-0.


SwGustav • April 25, 2025, 1:54 a.m.

Liftoff


Cosmic_Penguin • April 25, 2025, 3:26 a.m.

Launch success.


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
    ―
  • 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


B1069

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: December 21, 2021
Last Flight: June 23, 2025
Flights: 25
Landings Attempted: 25
Landings Successful: 25
Previous B1069 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1069 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 23rd flight.

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

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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