SpaceX

Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 27 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 15-23

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: September 2, 2026 
Launch Time:  01:18 a.m. PDT, 0818 UTC, 10:18 CEST 
Launch Window: Open until 4:46 a.m.  PDT
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Targeted Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Inclination: Southeast
Launch Status: Announced and scheduled 

Mission: Starlink Group 15-23
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1063 - Turnaround time 29 days)
Flight for the Booster: 35
Previous Flights of the Booster: 34 - Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, NROL-113, NROL-167, NROL-149, NAOS, and 25 Starlink missions
Droneship: Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)

Price: $74 million (without payload)
Diameter: 3,7 m
Height: 70 meters
Payload to Orbit: 22,800 LEO / 8,300 GTO
Lift-Off Thrust: 7...

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GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 15-23 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live

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Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket from California with 27 satellites for the company's Starlink space-based internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at 1:18 a.m. PDT (4:18 a.m. EDT / 0818 UTC).

The first-stage booster, serial number B1063, launching for a 35th time, will land on the drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You' nearly 8.5 minutes into the flight.

The Starlink 15-23 mission will take a southeasterly trajectory upon departure from Vandenberg. 

Live coverage will start about 30 minutes prior to launch.

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Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from West Coast with 27 satellites for Starlink internet service

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Launch Window: September 2nd from 00:46 to 04:46 PDT (07:46-11:46 UTC)
Current T0: September 2nd at 01:18:09 PDT (08:18:09 UTC)

Mission: Falcon 9 launch of 27 Starlink v2 Mini satellites into orbit.
Launch location: Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E), Vandenberg Space Force Base, Earth.
Target orbit: Low-Earth Orbit (LEO); 251x265km 70.01º
Booster: B1063-35; 28d 15h 13min 6s turnaround
Past customer missions: Sentinel 6 Michael Freilich, NASA's 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, 17-25, 17-21, 17-28, 17-53.
Satellites launched: 979, will be 1006 after this mission
Booster recovery:...

SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Starlink 15-23 from Vandenberg

Starlink Mission

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Rocket Lab

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

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Electron | Owl Around The World (StriX Launch 11)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Unknown Pad

Electron

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.

EOS-05/GISAT-1A will replace EOS-03/GISAT-1 lost in launch failure in 2021.

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

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

GSLV Mk. II

GSLV-F17/EOS-05 MISSION

GSLV-F17/EOS-05 Mission is scheduled for launch on 04 Sept 2026 at 02:55 AM IST from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, Sriharikota.
GSLV-F17 is the 19th flight of India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) and the configuration of GSLV-F17 Payload Fairing is 4 m dia Ogive (composite) version. The GSLV-F17 vehicle will place EOS-05 satellite into a Sub-Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (Sub- GTO). Launch is planned from the Second Launch Pad (SLP) at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR.
EOS-05 is a state-of-the-art Earth observation spacecraft. It is India’s first ever imaging satellite from Geosynchronous orbit.

GSLV-F17/EOS-05 MISSION

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

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"Onward and Upward" Mission of Isar Aerospace

Mission Name: 'Onward and Upward'

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

Launch site: Andøya Space

The second flight of Isar's ‘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 Isar's relentless drive for progress and continuous improvement, reflecting their determination to build upon the successes and lessons learned from our inaugural test flight.

NSF/NASASpaceflight LLC is providing live stream production services for Isar Aerospace's second flight of Spectrum.

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

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Isar Aerospace Launches "Onward and Upward" Mission

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-24

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-35 (96P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1b

Note: Actual USSF launch mission number to be confirmed.

Classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites for a US government entity based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bus, based on locations of rocket stage drop zones being exact fits with previous Starlink Group 15 launches.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-xxx ("R-2")

CASC

Long March 8A | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8A

Avio S.p.A

Sentinel-3C is the third satellite in the Sentinel-3 constellation, which provides high-accuracy optical, radar and altimetry data for marine and land services.

The Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite is a part of ESA's Earth Explorer program. The satellite will map vegetation fluorescence to quantify photosynthetic activity.

FLEX Mission Patch

Vega-C | Sentinel-3C & FLEX

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission.

The constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).

Electron | 6x HawkEye 360

Innospace

Second orbital launch attempt for the South Korean start-up Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle.

Spaceward Patch

HANBIT-Nano | Flight 2

Alcântara Launch Center

HANBIT Pad

HANBIT-Nano

Launch Complex 3 Landing Pad

First low-altitude hop test of a Themis demonstrator, with a targeted altitude up to 100 m.

Themis Demonstrator | T1H-1

Esrange Space Center

Launch Complex 3B

Themis Demonstrator

Tranche 1 Transport Layer A 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.

This launch carries 21 satellites manufactured by Northrop Grumman.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A

Jessica Watkins

Joshua Kutryk

Luke Delaney

Sergey Teteryatnikov

Landing Zone 40

SpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-13

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Crew Dragon 2

3 high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 11-13

Innospace's first in-house test satellite, 'InnoSat-0', will test various technologies for future development of satellites by Innospace themselves. The satellite will be deployed using Korean company SpaceBey’s specialized deployer.

HANBIT-Nano | InnoSat-0

Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude.

45 satellites will be carried on each Vulcan launch.

Vulcan VC6L | Amazon Leo (LV-01)

Space Launch Complex 41

Vulcan VC6L

14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3.

Starship IFT patch

Starship | Flight 14

Starbase

Orbital Launch Pad 2

Starship V3

Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 5

Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 6

LOXSAT 1 is a demonstration satellite of a complete cryogenic oxygen fluid management system in orbit, developed by Eta Space and sponsored by NASA's Tipping Point program.

The system will be integrated on a Rocket Lab Photon-LEO satellite bus and collect critical cryogenic fluid management data in orbit for 9 months, demonstrating capabilities of in-space cryogenic storage and transferal. Eta Space plans to use technology developed for this mission to develop a truly commercial depot intended to serve multiple customers in the future.

Electron | LOXSAT 1

Long March 12A Landing Site

Second test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket. Payload identities are TBD.

Long March 12A | Flight 2

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Long March 12A Pad

Long March 12A

Arianespace

Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude.

35-40 satellites will be carried on each Ariane 6 launch.

Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-04)

Ariane Launch Area 4

Ariane 64 Block 2

Korea Aerospace Research Institute

NeonSat-2 to 6 are part of the South Korean government's Earth observation micro-satellite constellation NeonSat (New-space Earth Observation Satellite). The NeonSat constellation is the first satellite system developed by the government using a mass-production approach for precise monitoring of the Korean Peninsula.

Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6

Naro Space Center

LC-2

KSLV-2 Nuri

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

MMX is a Japanese scientific mission to land on Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, to collect samples before bringing them back to Earth.

The mission includes a small French/German rover to explore the surface of Phobos.

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