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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-23 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - April 27, 2024

Launch Date: April 27, 2025 (EDT) Launch Time: 10:09 p.m. EDT - April 28, 0209 UTC, 04:09 CEST Launch Window: Open until April 28, 1:49 a.m. EDT Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Stat...

Watch live: SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Falcon 9 rocket

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 23 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 12-23 Mission

SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites with the Starlink 12-23 mission aboard its Falcon 9 rocket. These satellites are part of SpaceX’s growing low Earth orbit (LEO) internet constellat...

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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 12-23

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1077 - Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • April 28, 2025, 4:14 a.m.

Launch success.


LL2 • April 28, 2025, 2:12 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


SwGustav • April 28, 2025, 2:10 a.m.

Liftoff


Cosmic_Penguin • April 27, 2025, 9:38 p.m.

New T-0.



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
  • 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


B1077

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: October 5, 2022
Last Flight: June 3, 2025
Flights: 21
Landings Attempted: 21
Landings Successful: 21
Previous B1077 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 B1077 1st stage has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 20th flight.

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

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 504 Failures: 15 Pending: 115

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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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