SpaceX added to its roster of Starlink satellites today when it launched the Starlink Group 10-17 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. Liftoff was at 1:39 PM ET and into partly cloudy skies on a day in the low 80s.
SpaceX added to its roster of Starlink satellites today when it launched the Starlink Group 10-17 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. Liftoff was at 1:39 PM ET and into partly cloudy skies on a day in the low 80s.
Aboard the rocket was another group of Starlink V2 Mini satellites, which will join the company’s Starlink network of more than 8,400 similar units in low-Earth orbit. Using Starlink satellites, the company provides Internet connectivity to over seven million customers in 130 countries and territories worldwide.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Mission | Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpainSat NG II — Go for Launch! |
| Organization | SpaceX |
| Customer / Payload Provider | Hisdesat / Spanish Government |
| Location | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 |
| Pad | Space Launch Complex 40 |
| Status | Go for Launch |
| Status Info | Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. |
| Window Opens | Wednesday, 10/22/2025 9:30 PM |
| Window Closes | Thursday, 10/23/2025 1:19 AM |
| Destination | Geostationary Transfer Orbit |
| Mission Description | Second of two next-generation satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications for the Spanish government, its allies, and international organizations. |
| Broadcast Start Time | Coverage typically begins ~15 minutes before launch. |
| SpaceX Streaming Coverage | Watch Live on SpaceX.com |
| Spaceflight Now YouTube Coverage | Watch on YouTube – Spaceflight Now Live Stream |
As of 11:48 AM Friday October 10, 2025. Launch times are subject to change or cancellation at any time. Consult SpaceX.com for more information.
After multiple delays due to weather, the skies cooperated this evening for SpaceX, allowing the company to launch Falcon 9 and 24 Kuiper telecommunications satellites for Amazon. Liftoff was at 9:58 PM ET.
After multiple delays due to weather, the skies cooperated this evening for SpaceX, allowing the company to launch Falcon 9 and 24 Kuiper telecommunications satellites for Amazon. Liftoff was at 9:58 PM ET.
After flying straight and true throughout its part of the mission, after staging, Booster B1091-2 landed aboard ASDS ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ downrange in the Atlantic Ocean off of the coast of the Carolinas at T+ 00:08:18 of the flight.
Meanwhile the second stage and payload continued their ascent until the T+08:30:00 mark when the first second stage shutdown occurred. Another burn is scheduled for the T+00:52:50 mark, and payload deployment is slated to begin shortly after that.
This was the third and final mission for Project Kuiper hardware to launch aboard a Falcon 9, and SpaceX’s 133rd mission for 2025. All-time, SpaceX has flown 546 missions.
Amazon now has 153 Kuiper spacecraft in orbit.
The Kuiper project is Amazon’s initiative to provide broadband internet service through a constellation of satellites. Today’s launch is the sixth of a series that aims to meet the conditions set by the Federal Communications Commission, which require half of the planned 3,236 satellites to be in orbit by mid-2026. The full network is expected to be completed by mid-2029.
Amazon has publicly committed more than $10 billion to the development and deployment of the Kuiper constellation. The company is building out supporting infrastructure in tandem with the satellites, including user terminals and ground communication sites. The terminals, developed in-house, are designed to be compact and cost-effective. Amazon has said these terminals will support download speeds up to 400 Mbps and will be priced under $400, though full commercial service has not yet begun.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Mission | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-52 — Go for Launch! |
| Organization | SpaceX |
| Customer / Payload Provider | SpaceX — Starlink Division |
| Location | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 |
| Pad | Space Launch Complex 40 |
| Status | Go for Launch |
| Status Info | Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. |
| Window Opens | Thursday, 10/16/2025 2:42 AM |
| Window Closes | Thursday, 10/16/2025 6:42 AM |
| Destination | Low Earth Orbit |
| Mission Description | A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation — SpaceX’s project for a space-based Internet communication system. |
| Broadcast Start Time | Coverage typically begins ~15 minutes before launch. |
| SpaceX Streaming Coverage | Watch Live on SpaceX.com |
| Spaceflight Now YouTube Coverage | Watch on YouTube – Spaceflight Now Live Stream |
As of 11:48 AM Friday October 10, 2025. Launch times are subject to change or cancellation at any time. Consult SpaceX.com for more information.
SpaceX is planning to launch another tranche of Kuiper satellites for Amazon from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Monday evening after weather delays stopped previous attempts last week. The current launch window opens at 08:08 PM ET (0008 Z), and closes at 10:22:00 PM the same day. Weather here at the launch site is all but perfect, but out at sea, conditions in the expected booster landing area will remain a concern for at least another couple of days.
After launching and powering the initial ascent phase for the mission, Booster 1091-2 will complete its second mission by landing on ASDS ‘Just Read the Instructions’, which is stationed downrange in the Atlantic Ocean.
Should it be required, a backup launch opportunity is available on Tuesday, October 14 starting at 7:46:00 PM ET.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Mission | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Project Kuiper (KF-03) — Go for Launch! |
| Organization | SpaceX |
| Customer / Payload Provider | Amazon Kuiper Systems |
| Location | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 |
| Pad | Space Launch Complex 40 |
| Status | Go for Launch |
| Status Info | Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. |
| Window Opens | Monday, 10/13/2025 8:08 PM |
| Window Closes | Monday, 10/13/2025 10:22 PM |
| Destination | Low Earth Orbit |
| Mission Description | Third of a three-launch contract for Amazon’s Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation, with 24 satellites on board. |
| Broadcast Start Time | Coverage typically begins ~15 minutes before launch. |
| SpaceX Streaming Coverage | Watch Live on SpaceX.com |
| Spaceflight Now YouTube Coverage | Watch on YouTube – Spaceflight Now Live Stream |
As of 11:48 AM Friday October 10, 2025. Launch times are subject to change or cancellation at any time. Consult SpaceX.com for more information.
The 45th Weather Squadron of the US Space Force’s Launch Delta 45 has forecast a 95% chance of acceptable conditions at The Cape, and they have also outlined concerns in the booster recovery area.
The vehicle is expected to insert its payloads into a roughly 630 km altitude, 52° inclination orbit — the same operational orbit used for prior Kuiper launches.
Tonight’s launch carries 24 Kuiper satellites, built for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation. These spacecraft are designed for broadband internet delivery, each outfitted with advanced phased-array antennas and inter-satellite laser links to route data across the network.
Together, they will bolster a growing low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband mesh that Amazon aims will eventually consist of over 3,200 satellites to provide global high-speed internet access.
Once in service, these 24 new Kuiper satellites will add capacity and redundancy to the live network. They’re expected to support continuous global coverage in coordination with previously launched Kuiper craft, making the network more robust against outages or orbital anomalies.
The best options are available for spectators: Jetty Park, the Banana River Bridge on FL 528 W or the southern Titusville parks on Washington Avenue / US-1.
The Space Bar will be open through the launch window. Restaurants in Port Canaveral, specifically Gators Dockside, Fishlips and Grills Seafood should have good views after the rocket clears obstructions.
Remember that there is a delay between a launch stream and the actual countdown clock. That is simply because of physics: it takes time for the signal to travel from the launch site, through the Internet, and back down to your phone, resulting in a five to fifteen-second delay.
SpaceX will have a livestream of the launch on their website: Kuiper KF-03. This will also be available on the X platform. Coverage starts about fifteen minutes before liftoff.
Spaceflight Now will have coverage of the launch starting about one hour before liftoff on Youtube: link
For official updates regarding launch times, SpaceX.com is the best source of information. Starlink launch times change from time to time, and the company generally updates their website within minutes of the decision to change the launch time. This is very handy if none of the streaming options on YouTube have started their broadcasts.
Next Space Flight an app for iOS and Android phones, has a real-time countdown clock that is accurate to a second, give or take. The app is free. Search the App Store or Google Play. They are also on the web: nextspaceflight.com.
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SpaceX and NASA launched the IMAP Rideshare mission early Wednesday morning from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. After an apparently event-free countdown, liftoff was at 07:30 AM ET.
The flight appeared to be nominal, and Falcon 9 entered into a parking orbit around eight minutes after liftoff. The rocket and payload are now in a coast phase prior to to payload deployment, after which the three scientific satellites carried to orbit this morning will make their own way to the Lagrange 1 point, about one million miles from the Earth in the direction of the Sun.
About 7.5 minutes after liftoff, Booster B1096 touched down safely downrange aboard ASDS ‘Just Read The Instructions.’ Both barge and booster will now return to Port Canaveral, after which the booster will be offloaded and transported to SpaceX’s Hangar X facility at Kennedy Space Center, where it will be inspected, refurbished as necessary and prepared for its next mission.
Three space weather satellites were launched this morning: the NASA IMAP, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the NOAA) Space Weather Follow On – Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) instruments.
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is designed to study the boundary of the heliosphere, a bubble-like region of space dominated by the solar wind. Positioned about one million miles from Earth at the L1 Lagrange point, IMAP will capture and analyze particles that stream into the solar system from interstellar space. Its goal is to map how the solar wind interacts with the interstellar medium, shedding light on how cosmic rays are filtered and how the heliosphere protects our solar system from galactic radiation.
SWFO (Space Weather Follow-On) is a NOAA satellite mission focused on monitoring solar activity that could impact Earth’s space environment. Scheduled to launch alongside IMAP, SWFO will also be stationed at L1, where it will provide continuous data on solar wind, magnetic fields, and solar energetic particles. Its primary purpose is to support real-time space weather forecasting, helping to protect satellites, power grids, GPS, and other technologies from solar storms and other space weather events.
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a NASA mission named after astrophysicist George Carruthers, aimed at studying the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere—the geocorona. This layer of hydrogen extends thousands of miles into space, and Carruthers will observe it in ultraviolet light to understand how Earth’s atmosphere escapes into space and interacts with solar radiation. By providing detailed imaging of the geocorona, the probe will help scientists refine models of atmospheric loss, which has implications for both Earth and exoplanet habitability studies.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Mission | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-15 — Go for Launch! |
| Organization | SpaceX |
| Location | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 |
| Pad | Space Launch Complex 40 |
| Status | Go for Launch |
| Status Info | Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. |
| Window Opens | Thursday, 09/25/2025 4:36 AM |
| Window Closes | Thursday, 09/25/2025 8:36 AM |
| Destination | Low Earth Orbit |
| Mission Description | A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation — SpaceX’s project for space-based Internet communication system. |
As of 9:01 AM Wednesday September 24, 2025. Launch times are subject to change or cancellation at any time. Consult SpaceX.com for more information.
SpaceX is planning to launch the NASA IMAP, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the NOAA) Space Weather Follow On – Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellites tomorrow from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. Launch time is set for 07:30:35 in an instantaneous window.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Mission | Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others — Go for Launch! |
| Organization | SpaceX |
| Location | Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 |
| Pad | Launch Complex 39A |
| Status | Go for Launch |
| Status Info | Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. |
| Window Opens | Wednesday, 09/24/2025 7:30:35 AM |
| Window Closes | Wednesday, 09/24/2025 7:30:35 AM |
| Destination | Heliocentric L1 |
| Mission Description |
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium.
Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition,
as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models.
The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On – L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth’s exosphere. |
As of 6:44 PM Tuesday September 23, 2025. Launch times are subject to change or cancellation at any time. Consult SpaceX.com for more information.
The 45th Weather Squadron of Space Launch Delta 45 released their latest Launch Mission Execution Forecast today calling for 90+ GO conditions at liftoff.
SpaceX will have a livestream of the launch on their website: IMAP Mission. This will also be available on the X platform. Coverage starts about fifteen minutes before liftoff.
Spaceflight Now will have coverage of the launch starting about one hour before liftoff on Youtube: link
For official updates regarding launch times, NASA+ and SpaceX.com are the best sources of information.
Next Space Flight an app for iOS and Android phones, has a real-time countdown clock that is accurate to a second, give or take. The app is free. Search the App Store or Google Play. They are also on the web: nextspaceflight.com.
The best free options are available for spectators: Northern Titusville parks on Washington Avenue / US-1, For example, Space View Park, Sands Park, Rotary Riverfront Park.
Playalinda Beach will be open, but call ahead and go early. Playalinda Beach generally opens at 6 AM ET this time of year, and that is only 90 minutes before liftoff. Call ahead if you are planning to go: 386-428-3384.
Remember that there is a delay between a launch stream and the actual countdown clock. That is simply because of physics: it takes time for the signal to travel from the launch site, through the Internet, and back down to your phone, resulting in a five to fifteen-second delay.
The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is one of NASA’s newest Earth-facing space weather missions, named in honor of the late George Carruthers, a pioneering astrophysicist who built the first lunar-based telescope as part of the Apollo 16 mission.
The observatory’s mission is to image the geocorona, a vast cloud of hydrogen atoms that extends tens of thousands of miles beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Also called the exosphere, it is invisible to the naked eye. The geocorona’s hydrogen halo interacts with solar radiation and can be measured to monitor how solar activity affects Earth’s environment.
The Carruthers Observatory uses ultraviolet (UV) imaging to observe how the geocorona responds to solar emissions, particularly during solar storms. By watching the movement and intensity of hydrogen glow in the far-UV spectrum, scientists can get early indicators of incoming disturbances from the Sun.
“Carruthers gives us a front-row seat to the very edge of Earth’s atmospheric bubble,” said Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “It’s a critical piece in understanding how Earth responds to solar energy.”
After launch, the telescope will travel to the L1, or the first Lagrange Point, which is relatively near the Earth — about one million miles away. L1 is the point of gravitational equilibrium between the Earth and the Sun, and that region provides a stable position for small objects to reside while using a minimum amount of fuel to remain there. Several scientific payloads, such as the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) also reside in the region.
Carruthers will be able to directly measure the size of Earth’s geocorona for the first time. The first Carruthers telescope landed on the moon, too close to see the geocorona in its entirety. That said, this mission will enable scientists to measure the size of Earth’s atmosphere for the first time.
The spacecraft is part of the IMAP Rideshare mission, which will launch tomorrow Wednesday.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Mission | Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others — Go for Launch! |
| Organization | SpaceX |
| Location | Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 |
| Pad | Launch Complex 39A |
| Status | Go for Launch |
| Status Info | Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. |
| Window Opens | Wednesday, 09/24/2025 7:30:35 AM |
| Window Closes | Wednesday, 09/24/2025 7:30:35 AM |
| Destination | Heliocentric L1 |
| Mission Description |
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium.
Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition,
as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models.
The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On – L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth’s exosphere. |
As of 12:22 PM Monday September 22, 2025. Launch times are subject to change or cancellation at any time. Consult SpaceX.com for more information.
This week, weather has definitely not been SpaceX’s friend. Due to a stalled frontal boundary to the north of the Space Coast, thunderstorms have been nearly continuous for several days, keeping Falcon 9 and the Nusantara Lima mission on the pad waiting for its launch. Tonight, the company plans its third attempt.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Mission | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Lima — Go for Launch! |
| Organization | SpaceX |
| Location | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 |
| Pad | Space Launch Complex 40 |
| Status | Go for Launch |
| Status Info | Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources. |
| Window Opens | Wednesday, 09/10/2025 8:00 PM |
| Window Closes | Wednesday, 09/10/2025 9:55 PM |
| Destination | Geostationary Transfer Orbit |
| Satellite Operator | PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), Indonesia |
| Mission Description | Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps. |
As of 12:18 PM Wednesday September 10, 2025. Launch times are subject to change or cancellation at any time. Consult SpaceX.com for more information.
Not great, but improving: the Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron of Launch Delta 45 is calling for a 40->60% probability of acceptable weather. Essentially, they are saying that weather will improve through the launch window — it will be 40% at 8:00pm and by the end of the window that will increase to 60%.
Of course, that’s just a forecast, and the launch probabilities will be calculated continuously through the launch window until Falcon 9 lifts off or SpaceX calls off the launch.
The best free options are available for spectators: Jetty Park, the Banana River Bridge on FL 528 W or the southern Titusville parks on Washington Avenue / US-1 are your best bets.
The Space Bar will be open through the launch window.
Spaceflight Now will have coverage of the launch starting about one hour before liftoff on Youtube: link
For official updates regarding launch times, SpaceX.com is the best source of information. Starlink launch times change from time to time, and the company generally updates their website within minutes of the decision to change the launch time. This is very handy if none of the streaming options on YouTube have started their broadcasts.
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