SpaceX

A Shortfall of Gravitas

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

Space X Starlink Mission Patch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date:  January 9, 2026
Launch Time: 1:03 p.m. EST, 1803 UTC, 19:03 CET
Launch Window:  Open until 5:03 p.m. EST
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Targeted Orbit: LEO (Low Earth Orbit) 
Launch Inclination: Southeast
Launch Status: Scheduled and announced 

Mission: Starlink 6-96
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1069 - Turnaround 59 days)
Flight for the Booster: 29
Previous Flights of the Booster: 28 - CRS-24, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F, OneWeb 1, SES-18 and SES-19, and 24 Starlink missions
Droneship: Just Read The Instructions

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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Go! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-96 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live

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Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 satellites for the company's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for no earlier than Friday, January 9, during a window that opens at 1:03 p.m. EST (1803 UTC). The first-stage booster for this mission, B1069, launching for a 29th time, will land on SpaceX's drone ship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas', stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 8.5 minutes after leaving the launch pad.

The mission, designated Starlink 6-96, will take a south-easterly trajectory on departure from Florida's Space Coast.

Our live coverage with commentary from Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith will start about one hour prior to launch.

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Watch Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with 29 Starlink satellites

Unofficial Webcast

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: January 8th from 1:29PM to 5:29PM EST (18:29-22:29 UTC)
Current T0: January 8th at 1:29PM EST (18:29 UTC)

Mission: Falcon 9 launch of 29 Starlink v2 Mini satellites into orbit.
Launch location: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth.
Target orbit: Low-Earth Orbit (LEO); 
Booster: B1069-29; 60d 10h 18min 50s turnaround
Past customer missions: CRS-24, Hotbird 13F, OneWeb-15, SES-18 & SES-19.
Past Starlink missions: 4-23, 5-3, 5-6, 5-12, 6-9, 6-19, 6-28, 6-36, 6-39, 6-47, 6-57, 10-1, 10-9, 8-10, 10-8, 6-66, 12-3, 12-21, 6-74, 12-22, 10-23, 10-29, 10-57, 10-51.
Booster recovery: Just Read T...

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 6-96

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

Landing Zone 4

The Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope that will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars, as well as studying host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets through visible-light photometry and near-infrared spectroscopy.

Also launching on this launch are 39 other ride-share payloads under the "Falcon 9 Twilight mission" manifested by Exolaunch, including satellites from Spire Global and Kepler Communications.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Launch Date: January 11, 2026 (PST)
Launch Time: 5:19 a.m. PST, 1319 UTC, 14:19 CET
Launch Window: Open until 6:16 a.m. PST
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Targeted Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Launch Inclination: South
Launch Status: Scheduled and announced

Mission: Twilight (Pandora & Others)
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1097 - Turnaround time 38 days)
Operator of the Mission: NASA and others
Flight for the Booster: 5
Previous Flights of the Booster: 4 -  Sentinel-6B and three Starlink missions
Booster landing: LZ-4 (Landing Zone 4) - Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA

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:...

GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Twilight (Pandora & Others) - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live

Twilight Mission

Just Read the Instructions

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97

Launch Date: January 11, 2026
Launch Time:  1:08 p.m. EST, 1808 UTC, 19:08 CET
Launch Window:  Open until 5:08 EST.
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA
Targeted Orbit: LEO (Low Earth Orbit) 
Launch Inclination: Southeast
Launch Status: Scheduled and announced 

Mission: Starlink 6-97
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster B1078 - Turnaround time 57 days)
Flight for the Booster: 25
Previous Flights of the Booster: 24 - Crew-6, SES O3b mPOWER-B, USSF-124, BlueBird 1-5, Nusantara Lima (PSN N5), and 19 Starlink missions
Droneship: A Shortfall Of Gravitas (ASOG)

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 met...

GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-97 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live

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: January 10th from 1:34PM to 5:34PM EST (18:34-22:34 UTC)
Current T0: January 10th at 1:34PM EST (18:34 UTC)

Mission: Falcon 9 launch of 29 Starlink v2 Mini satellites into orbit.
Launch location: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth.
Target orbit: Low-Earth Orbit (LEO); 257x267km 43° orbit

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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 6-97

ISRO

Small Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD.

This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads.

PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

PSLV-DL

CASC

Long March 8A | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8A

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-98

Long March 3B/E | Unknown Payload

Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1)

Long March 3B/E

Isar Aerospace

Second test flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle, carrying several cubesats as part of the European Space Agency's “Boost!” program.

Spectrum | Flight Two

Andøya Spaceport

Orbital Launch Pad

Spectrum

Twelfth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

NROL-146

Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-105

NROL-105 Mission

Unknown

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-100

Long March 12 | Unknown Payload

Commercial LC-2

Long March 12

China Rocket Co.

Possibly an Earth observation satellite for the Pakistan government's SUPARCO, details TBD.

Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload

Sea Launch

Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship

Smart Dragon 3

Long March 7A | Unknown Payload

Long March 7A

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 4 satellites.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | BlueBird Block 2 #2

This is a replacement satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. The constellation will provide India with an alternative to GPS and will be used for military and civilian use. Located at a geosynchronous orbit, the system will be operated by the Indian government.

GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1L (NVS-03)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

GSLV Mk. II

First uncrewed orbital test flight of the Gaganyaan capsule.

LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1

Gaganyaan

Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)

Galactic Energy

First test launch of Galactic Energy’s Ceres-2 rocket.

Ceres-2 Y1

Ceres-2 | Demo Flight

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 95A

Ceres-2

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

First Starlink launch to feature a Falcon 9 booster landing within The Bahamas waters operationally, after the trajectory was tested during launch of Starlink Group 10-12 in February 2025.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-36

Rocket Lab

The NeonSat-1A, carrying a high-resolution optical camera, is designed to test the constellation capabilities of the South Korean government's Earth observation micro-satellite constellation NeonSat (New-space Earth Observation Satellite), in particular technology improvements identified from operations of NeonSat-1 after its launch in April 2024. These technologies will in turn be incorporated into the next 10 NeonSat under construction, as well as providing more site re-visiting capabilities along with NeonSat-1.

The NeonSat constellation is the first satellite system developed by the government using a mass-production approach for precise monitoring of the Korean Peninsula, lead by the Satellite Technology Research Center (SaTReC) at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea’s leading university dedicated to science and technology. Designed to capture near-real time natural disaster monitoring for the Korean peninsula, KAIST’s NEONSAT constellation is a collaboration across multiple Korean academic, industry, and research institutions, including SaTReC, which is leading the program’s system design and engineering. 

The NEONSAT program is funded by the Korean government’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT).

Bridging The Swarm Patch

Electron | Bridging The Swarm (NeonSat-1A)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Electron

USSF-87 will launch two identical Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites GSSAP-7 and GSSAP-8 directly to a near-geosynchronous orbit approximately 36,000 km above the equator.

Data from the GSSAP will uniquely contribute to timely and accurate orbital predictions, further enabling space flight safety including satellite collision avoidance.

Vulcan VC4S | USSF-87

Space Launch Complex 41

Vulcan VC4S

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.

Artemis II Patch

SLS Block 1 | Artemis II

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39B

Orion

SLS Block 1

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

Elektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture real-time images of clouds and the Earth's underlying surface, heliogeophysical measurements, collection and translating hydrometeorological and service data.

Proton-M/Blok DM-03 | Elektro-L No.5

Baikonur Cosmodrome

81/24 (81P)

Proton-M Blok DM-03

Jessica Meir

Jack Hathaway

Sophie Adenot

Andrei Fedyaev

Landing Zone  at SLC-40

SpaceX Crew-12 is the twelfth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Crew-12

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-12

Unknown Pad

Crew Dragon 2

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

Skyroot Aerospace

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

Vikram-I | Demo Flight

Vikram-I

Rocket Launches Today