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 17-20

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

On Sunday January 25, 2026, SpaceX launched the Starlink Group 17-20 mission with a Falcon 9 Block 5 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.

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SpaceX Starlink Group 17-20

Unofficial Re-stream

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 Sunday, Jan. 25 at 9:30 a.m. PST (12:30 p.m. EST / 1730 UTC).

The first-stage booster, tail number number B1097, launching for a sixth time, will land on the drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You' nearly 8.5 minutes into the flight.

The Starlink 17-20 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 launches from California with 25 Starlink Internet satellites

Unofficial Webcast

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

A Shortfall of Gravitas

GPS III SV09 Patch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV09

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

GPS III-9 Mission

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

Unknown Pad

Electron

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-19

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 6-101

CASC

Long March 7A | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Long March 7A

China Rocket Co.

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

Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload

Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

South China Sea (launch location 3)

Smart Dragon 3

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-103

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

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-32

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-104

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

Unknown

A batch of 29 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

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.

32 satellites will be carried on this launch.

Ariane 64 | Amazon Leo (LE-01)

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 4

Ariane 64

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

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

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

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.

New Glenn | BlueBird Block 2 #2

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

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)

Onward and Upward Patch

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

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

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

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

31/6

Soyuz 2.1a

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

SpaceX Transporter Patch v2

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

ISRO

TDS-01 (Technology Demonstration Satellite-01) is an Indian geostationary orbit technology demonstration satellite carrying payloads for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar and the CSIR-CEERI, Pilani. 

Payloads to be tested included an internally developed 300 mN electric powered thrusters, atomic clocks, travelling wave tube amplifiers (TWTA) & a quantum communication suite (QuTDS).

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