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

Watch live coverage from Cape Canaveral as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 29 satellites for the company's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 is scheduled during a launch window that opens at 5:01 p.m. EST (2201 UTC) on Thursday, Dec. 11. The first-stage booster for …

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 6-90

SpaceX launch of a batch of 29 Starlink v2-mini satellites for their second-generation high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation. Launch window: December 11th from 1:59PM to 5:59PM EST (18:59-22:59 UTC) Current T0: December 11th at 1:59PM EST (18:59 UTC) Mission: Falcon 9 launch of 29 Starlink v2 Mini satellites …

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Starlink Group 6-90

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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%
B1083 - Just Read the Instructions

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

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Updates


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 11, 2025, 12:25 a.m.

Now targeting Dec 11 at 20:26 UTC


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 11, 2025, 7:48 p.m.

Now targeting Dec 11 at 22:01 UTC


LL2 • Dec. 11, 2025, 9:52 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


LL2 • Dec. 11, 2025, 10:01 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Falcon 9

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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


B1083

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: March 4, 2024
Last Flight: December 11, 2025
Flights: 16
Landings Attempted: 16
Landings Successful: 16
Previous B1083 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1083 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 16th flight.

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

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 642 Failures: 15 Pending: 123

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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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