SpaceX

Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-25

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Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: February 21, 2026
Launch Time: 1:00 a.m. PST, 0900 UTC, 10:00 CET
Launch Window: Open 4:00 a.m. PST
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Targeted Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Inclination: South
Launch Status: Scheduled and announced

Mission: Starlink Group 17-25
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1063 - Turnaround time 63 days)
Flight for the Booster: 30
Previous Flights of the Booster: 12 - NROL-126, Transporter-12, SPHEREx, NROL-57, and eight Starlink missions
Droneship: Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)

Price: $69,75 million (without payload)
Diameter: 3,7 m
Height: 70 meters
Payload to Orbit: 22,800 LEO / 8,300 GTO
Lift-Off Thrust: 7,607 kilonewtons
Fairing: Diameter 5,2 meters / Height 13 meters
Stages: 2

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Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket from California with 25 satellites for SpaceX's internet from space service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 21, at 1:04:19 a.m. PST (4:04:19 a.m. EST / 0904:19 UTC).

The first-stage booster, tail number number B1063, launching for a 31st time, will land on the drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You' nearly 8.5 minutes into the flight.

The Starlink 17-25 mission will take a southerly trajectory upon departure from Vandenberg. 

Live commentary from Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith will be provided starting about 30 minutes prior to launch.

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Watch Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California carrying 25 Starlink satellites

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Launch Window: February 21st from 12AM to 4AM PST (08:00-12:00 UTC)
Current T0: February 21st at 12AM PST (08:00 UTC)

Mission: Falcon 9 launch of 25 Starlink v2 Mini satellites into orbit.
Launch location: Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), Vandenberg Space Force Base, Earth.
Target orbit: Low-Earth Orbit (LEO); 244x260km 97.29º orbit
Booster: B1063-31; 64d 16h 32min 10s turnaround
Past customer missions: Sentinel 6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter 7, Iridium-9/OneWeb-19, SDA Tranche 0B, NROL-113, NROL-167, NROL-149, NAOS. 
Past Starlink missions: v1.0-28, 4-11, 4-13, 3-1, 3-4, 4-31, 2-5, 5-13, 7-4, 7-7, 7-11, 7-17, 8-7, 9-3, 11-6, 11-7, 11-9, 11-22, 11-20, 11-23, 15-13.
Booster recovery: Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)
Fairing recovery: GO Beyond
Rocket trajectory: Southwe...

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 17-25

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

A Shortfall of Gravitas

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-104

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-26

Rocket Lab

Payload is a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle developed by by Australian company Hypersonix.

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HASTE | That's Not A Knife (DART AE)

Wallops Island

Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)

Electron

Just Read the Instructions

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-110

Space One

Third flight of the KAIROS launch vehicle. 

4 satellites will be on board:

* TATARA-1R
* SC-Sat1a
* HErO
* AETS-1

KAIROS | Flight 3

Space Port Kii, Japan

Space One Launch Pad

Kii-based Advanced & Instant ROcket System

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-108

CASC

Long March 7A | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Long March 7A

Skyroot Aerospace

First launch of Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-I launch vehicle, with several cubesats on board. Payload identities TBD.

Vikram-I | Demo Flight

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

Vikram-I

Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Alpha's Flight 7 will be a test flight and return-To-Flight for the launch vehicle after its April 2025 launch failure. It will test and validate key systems ahead of Firefly’s Block II configuration upgrade on Flight 8 that’s designed to enhance reliability and manufacturability across the vehicle.

Flight 7 will be the last flown in Alpha’s current configuration and will test multiple Block II subsystems, including the in-house avionics and thermal improvements, to gain flight heritage and validate lessons learned ahead of the full configuration upgrade on Flight 8.

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Firefly Alpha | Stairway to Seven

Space Launch Complex 2W

Firefly Alpha

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-23

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-41

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-18

ISRO

GISAT-1A (GEO Imaging Satellite) is an Indian earth observing satellite operating from geostationary orbit to facilitate continuous observation of Indian sub-continent, quick monitoring of natural hazards and disaster.

GSLV Mk II | GISAT-1A (EOS-05)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

GSLV Mk. II

Gregory R. Wiseman

Victor J. Glover

Jeremy Hansen

Christina Koch

NASA

Artemis II is the first crewed mission as part of the Artemis program. Artemis II will send a crew of 4 - 3 Americans and 1 Canadian around the moon and return them back to Earth.

The mission will test the core systems of NASA's Orion spacecraft including the critical life support system, among other systems which could not be tested during Artemis I due to the lack of crew onboard.

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SLS Block 1 | Artemis II

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39B

Orion

SLS Block 1

EchoStar 25 is a direct broadcast satellite, built on the proven Maxar 1300 series platform, which will deliver content across North America. It will be equipped with a high-power, multi-spot beam payload, allowing DISH to provide high-quality content to its customers.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | EchoStar 25

Isar Aerospace

Second test flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle. This launch will carry 5 cubesats and 1 non-separable experiment as part of European Space Agency (ESA)'s “Boost!” program:

* CyBEEsat (TU Berlin)
* TriSat-S (University of Maribor)
* Platform 6 (EnduroSat)
* FramSat-1 (NTNU)
* SpaceTeamSat1 (TU Wien Space Team)
* Let It Go (Dcubed, non-separable experiment)

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Spectrum | Onward and Upward

Andøya Spaceport

Orbital Launch Pad

Spectrum

Mission Name: 'Onward and Upward'

Launch Date: Updates via https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview

Launch site: Andøya Space

The second flight of our ‘Spectrum’ launch vehicle marks a significant milestone serving as both the vehicle’s qualification mission and its first flight carrying payload.

"Onward and Upward" symbolizes our relentless drive for progress and continuous improvement, reflecting our determination to build upon the successes and lessons learned from our inaugural test flight.

The livestream is produced in collaboration with the @NASASpaceflight team.

More information on the Mission ‘Onward and Upward’ here: https://isaraerospace.com/mission-2

Livestream: "Onward and Upward" Mission of Isar Aerospace

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-33 (94P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1a

The European Space Agency (ESA)'s LEO-PNT (Low Earth Orbit Positioning, Navigation and Timing) demonstrator mission will feature a 10-satellite constellation demonstration mission that will assess how a low Earth orbit fleet of satellites can work in combination with the Galileo and EGNOS constellations in higher orbits that provide Europe’s own global navigation system.

This launch will lift 2 “Pathfinder A” satellites built by Thales Alenia Space and GMV to a 510 km altitude Low Earth Orbit.

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Electron | Daughter Of The Stars (LEO-PNT Pathfinder A)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Unknown Pad

Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Tranche 1 Transport Layer E is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites.

The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer E

Vulcan | GPS III SV10

Space Launch Complex 41

Vulcan

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Electron | StriX Launch 8

Blue Origin

Jacklyn

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched.

This launch will feature 1 satellite, BlueBird 7/BlueBird Block 2 FM2.

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