SpaceX

Of Course I Still Love You

A classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites 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-385

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

On Saturday September 26, 2026 at 14:00 UTC, SpaceX launched the USSF-385 mission with a Falcon 9 Block 5 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.

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SpaceX USSF-385

Unofficial Re-stream

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket from California carrying a classified payload for the U.S. Space Force. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 7 a.m. PDT / 10 a.m. EDT (1400 UTC) on Saturday, Sept. 26.

The first-stage booster, serial number B1100, launching for a 10th time, will land on the drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You' about 8.5 minutes into the flight.

The USSF-385 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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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches secretive U.S. Space Force mission from Vandenberg, California

Unofficial Webcast

USSF-385 Mission

Official Webcast

Gulf of Mexico

14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3 and the first Starship flight to deploy satellites (a group of Starlink satellites known as Starlink Group 31-1) into stable Low Earth Orbit.

The ship is expected to fly at an altitude approximately 275 km above Earth and complete approximately 6 orbits around the planet for nearly 10 hours, with splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile.

The booster’s primary test objective on Flight 14 will be executing a successful launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and landing burn at an offshore landing point in the Gulf.

Starship will deliver 26 Starlink V3 satellites to orbit for the first time, which aim to greatly expand the network's capacity and user speeds. Each Starlink V3 satellite will add 1 Tbps of capacity to the constellation.

Starship IFT patch

Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)

Starbase

Orbital Launch Pad 2

Starship V3

Launch Date: September 28, 2026, pending regulatory approval. 
Launch Time: 7:15 a.m. CDT, 1215 UTC, 14:15 CEST
Launch Window: 8:30 a.m. CDT
Status: Starship Test Flight 14 - Super Heavy Booster 21 and Starship 41 are in testing
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Starship-Super Heavy (Prototype) - (Vehicles: Starship 41 & Booster 21)
Mission: Starship Test Flight 14 - Starship Test Flight 14 is the first orbital mission for Starship
Flight: 1st flight for Super Heavy Booster 21 - 1st flight for Starship 41
Launch Location: Pad 2, Starbase, Texas, USA
Status: Scheduled and announced. 


Starship's 14th flight is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, September 28, pending regulatory approval. The 75-minute launch window will open at 7:15 a.m. CDT, 1215 UTC, 14:15 CEST. 

The upco...

GO! - SpaceX - Starship - Starship Flight 14 - Pad 2 - Starbase, TX - Space Affairs Live

NSF coverage of SpaceX's Starship Flight 14. Starship’s first orbital mission is expected to fly at an altitude approximately 275 km above Earth and complete approximately six orbits around the planet over the course of a nearly 10-hour flight, with splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Chile.
 
The Starship upper stage’s primary objectives include the first orbital insertion maneuver, the deployment of 26 Starlink V3 satellites, a deorbit burn using a single Raptor engine while in space, and a controlled reentry, descent, and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Starship will only execute a burn to enter orbit after the flight control team has ensured there is sufficient redundancy on hardware critical to doing the subsequent deorbit burn at the end of the mission.
 
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SpaceX Starship Flight 14 - Launch & Booster Splashdown - LAUNCH STREAM

Innospace

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.

Spaceward Patch

HANBIT-Nano | InnoSat-0

Alcântara Launch Center

HANBIT Pad

HANBIT-Nano

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

HANBIT-Nano | Flight 2

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

Crew-13 Mission

Landing Zone 4

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 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Transporter-18 Mission

Landing Zone 1

Atlantic Ocean

Landing Zone 2

Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office.

Falcon Heavy | NROL-97

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Falcon Heavy

NROL-97 Mission

HyImpulse

Test flight of HyImpulse's SR75 sounding rocket.

SR75 Maiden Flight

SR75 | Flight 2

SaxaVord Spaceport

Unknown Pad

SR75

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

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

A batch of 27 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 15-25

Starlink Mission

ISRO

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

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad

GSLV Mk. II

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.

H3-24 | Martian Moon eXplorer (MMX)

Tanegashima Space Center

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2

H3-24

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

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)

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 4

Ariane 64 Block 2

CASC

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

Ride-share launch of multiple satellites, including the in-orbit refueling demonstration satellite AayulSAT-1A from OrbitAID Aerospace. Other payload's identities TBD.

SSLV | AayulSAT-1A & others

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

SSLV

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

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

35th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35

Cargo Dragon 2

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-36 (97P)

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1b

First uncrewed orbital test flight of the Gaganyaan capsule.

LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1

Gaganyaan

Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)

Second of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.

Ariane 62 | Metop-SG B1

Ariane 62

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).

PSLV-XL | TDS-01

PSLV XL

Unknown

Demonstration flight of the Astrobotic Griffin lander and its engines, initially contracted for the cancelled NASA VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission. The vacated payload spot will now host the FLIP (FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform) lunar rover from Astrolab.

Falcon Heavy | Griffin Mission One

Classified payload for the United States Space Force

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