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.

Space X Starlink Mission Patch

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date: October 12, 2026 (PDT)
Launch Time:  5:11 p.m. (October 13, 0011 UTC, 02:11 CEST)
Launch Window: Open until 8:00 p.m. PDT
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Targeted Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Inclination: Southeast
Launch Status: Scheduled and announced

Mission: Starlink Group 15-25
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1082 - Turnaround time 36 days)
Flight for the Booster: 25
Previous Flights of the Booster: 24 - USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, NROL-145, and 21 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: 7,607 kilonewtons
Fairing: Diameter 5,2 meters / Height 13 meters...

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GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 15-25 - 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 Monday, October 12, 2026, at 5:11 p.m. PDT (8:11 p.m. EDT / 0011 UTC).

The first-stage booster, serial number B1088, launching for a 20th time, will land on the drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You' nearly 8.5 minutes into the flight.

The Starlink 15-25 mission will take a southeasterly trajectory upon departure from Vandenberg. 

Live coverage with commentary will start about 30 minutes prior to launch.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California with 27 Starlink satellites

Unofficial Webcast

Launch Window: October 12th from 16:00 to 20:00 PDT (23:00-03:00 UTC)
Current T0: October 12th at 17:11:47 PDT (00:11:47 UTC on the 13th).

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); 251x266km 70.01º
Booster: B1088-20; 36d 8h 33min 6s turnaround
Past customer missions: NROL-126, Transporter-12, SPHEREx and PUNCH, NROL-57, USS-366.
Past Starlink missions: 11-13, 15-4, 15-8, 15-7, 17-5, 17-12, 11-19, 11-15, 17-33, 17-24, 17-16, 17-47, 17-40,15-24.
Satellites launched: 551, will be 578 after this mission
Booster recovery: Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)
Fairing recovery: Doug
Rocket trajectory: South-Southeast
Payload mass: Approximat...

SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 with Starlink 15-25

Starlink Mission

Official Webcast

Landing Zone 40

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

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Cargo Dragon 2

Tune in as a new shipment of science and supplies lifts off to the International Space Station.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 6:33 a.m. EDT (1033 UTC), Tuesday, Oct. 13, for the next cargo launch of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the space station. Dragon will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and is scheduled to dock autonomously at around 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) on Thursday, Oct. 15, to the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module.

Learn more about the mission and the launch timeline: https://go.nasa.gov/3WhHUPG

NASA's SpaceX 35th Commercial Resupply Services Launch

Coverage of the Launch of NASA’s SpaceX 35th Cargo Resupply Mission to the International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX 35th Commercial Resupply Services Launch

CRS-35 Mission

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with a Cargo Dragon on a space station resupply mission for NASA. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Tuesday, October 13, at 6:33 a.m. EDT (1033 UTC). The first-stage booster, which is making its eighth flight, will return to land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at SpaceX's LZ-40, adjacent to the launch pad, less than eight minutes into flight.

The mission, designated CRS-35,  will carry cargo to the International Space Station for NASA. The Falcon 9 will head away from Florida's Space Coast on a north-easterly trajectory.

Commentary will be provided by Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith, starting approximately on hour prior to liftoff.

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Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches NASA Space Station cargo mission from Cape Canaveral

Instantaneous launch window: October 13th at 06:33:44 EDT (10:33:44 UTC).

Mission: Falcon 9 launch of CRS-35 to the International Space Station
Launch location: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth.
Target orbit: Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) - 51.6º orbital inclination
Booster: B1096-8; 75d 3h 23min 25s turnaround
Booster history: Kuiper Falcon 1, IMAP, Starlink 6-87, NROL-77, GPS-III SV09, CRS-34, NROL-95.
Booster recovery: Landing Zone 40 (LZ-40)
Dragon capsule: C211-4; 228d 2h 49min 44s turnaround
Capsule history: CRS-26, CRS-29, CRS-33.
Total time in flight: 275 days, 8 hours, 1 minute, 28 seconds
Capsule recovery: Shannon off the coast of California.
Rocket trajectory: Northeast hugging the east coast of the United States.
Payload onboard: 2,867kg...

SpaceX Launches CRS-35 Dragon to the International Space Station

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 ascent rocket stage drop zones being fits with previous SDA Transport Layer launches.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-481

USSF-481 Mission

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 Moons eXploration (MMX)

Tanegashima Space Center

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2

H3-24

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-15

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

ISRO

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

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

SSLV

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

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

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)

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

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

Baikonur Cosmodrome

31/6

Soyuz 2.1b

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

Ariane 62 | Metop-SG B1

Ariane 62

First uncrewed orbital test flight of the Gaganyaan capsule.

LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1

Gaganyaan

Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)

This is the 25th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 24th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-25

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

Classified payload for the United States Space Force

Falcon Heavy | USSF-75

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39A

Falcon Heavy

Tranche 1 Transport Layer D 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 D

Blue Origin

The first mission of Blue Ring, Blue Origin's all-in-one, high-powered hybrid solar electric and chemical propelled spacecraft, will test the spacecraft's operations in Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), as well as subsequent operations after reaching Geostationary Orbit (GEO).

It will carry one of Scout Space's flagship next-generation space domain awareness (SDA) Owl sensors, which is designed to enhance real-time tracking, characterization, and assessment of space objects by integrating advanced optical sensing, onboard artificial intelligence-driven processing, and autonomous decision-making capabilities to deliver domain-wide intelligence in space in support of the U.S. Space Force’s space control mission set.

Blue Ring will also carry Optimum Technologies (OpTech)'s next-generation Caracal optical payload, which is designed to provide actionable insights on resident space objects and orbital activity and includes onboard image storage, object detection algorithms, and passive thermal control. The payload is designed to operate flexibly across dynamic orbits over a year-long mission profile.

Several internal Blue Origin payloads will also be hosted.

New Glenn | Blue Ring-1

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

Tranche 1 Transport Layer F 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 F

Up to 18 satellites manufactured by MDA for Canadian satellite operator Telesat's Lightspeed constellation.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Telesat Lightspeed 2

Unknown Pad

Isar Aerospace

Third test flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle. This launch will carry various satellites including R-Space’s AT-Astra/IOD-01, which will perform in-orbit demonstrations for ENPULSION, SUNBOOSTER GmbH, and Synopsis Planet.

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