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A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 28 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 6-104

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date:  February 21, 2026
Launch Time: 9:04 p.m. EST (February 22, 0204 UTC, 03:04 CET)
Launch Window:  Open until Feb 22, 1:04 a.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 6-104
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1077 - Turnaround 66 days)
Flight for the Booster: 26
Previous Flights of the Booster: 25 -   Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06, Inmarsat I6-F2, CRS-28, Intelsat G-37, NG-20, TD7, and 18 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: D...

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Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 satellites for Elon Musk's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Saturday, February 21, at 10:47:10 p.m. EST (03:47:10 UTC). The first-stage booster for this mission, 1067, launching for a 33rd time, will land on SpaceX's drone ship 'A Short Fall of Gravitas', stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 8.5 minutes after leaving the launch pad.

The mission, designated Starlink 6-104, 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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Launch window: February 21st from 9:04PM to 1:04AM EST (02:04-06:04 UTC on the 22nd)
Current T0: February 21st at 9:11:50PM EST (02:11:50 UTC on the 22nd)

Mission: Falcon 9 launch of 28 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); 260x273km 43° orbit
Booster: B1067-33; 75d 3h 45min 40s turnaround
Past customer missions: CRS-22, Crew-3, Türksat 5B, Crew-4, CRS-25, Hotbird 13G, O3b mPOWER A, Satria, Merah Putih 2, Galileo FM26 & FM32, Koreasat 6A.
Past Starlink missions: 4-34, 5-2, 5-5, 5-9, 6-10, 6-22, 6-29, 6-35, 6-45, 6-55, 8-5, 8-3, 6-70, 12-12, 12-8, 6-73, 6-83, 10-25, 10-11, 10-17, 6-92.
Satellites launched: 657, will be 685 after this mission.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 6-104 - Fleetleader Booster

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

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.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-26

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

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

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

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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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