Starlink Group 6-61 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-10-23 21:47 UTC, or 2024-10-23 17:47 local time (EDT). Booster 1073-18 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAjeY2iJpaY (scrub)
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMoDXF67CU8 (scrub)
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qGFi2LtMOI (scrub)
• The Launch Pad: (scrub)
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1849204591407313382
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhlJA-JU7to

Source

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-10-20, 05:13 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-10-19, 22:13 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1082-7 | | Landing | LZ-4 | | Payload | 20 OneWeb satellites | | Customer | Eutelsat OneWeb | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to Polar Orbit |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-681Bx6XNJg | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdmvurETHjE | NASASpaceflight | none | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJrY0uuUBMM | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1847865913959469097 | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-b5YuDrIk

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 31st consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 34th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 4 days, 20:52:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 21st landing on LZ-4

☑️ 358th Falcon family booster landing, 368th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 98th Falcon 9 mission this year, 384th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 100th SpaceX mission of 2024, 400th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 103rd SpaceX launch this year, 414th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight mission page

The 20th flight dedicated to the OneWeb high-speed Internet constellation. The initial constellation consists of 648 satellites. Later, the constellation could be expanded to more than 900 satellites depending on demand. OneWeb is expected to begin customer demonstrations in 2022, then provide a global, 24-hour service in 2022/2023.

Each satellite in the constellation weighs 147.7 kg. They are powered by Russian ion engines, manufactured by OKB-Fakel, and have two solar panels for their power supply. The first generation of satellites, operating on a quasi-polar orbit (1 200 km x 86.4°), cannot perform inter-satellite communication, and can only be used near a ground relay station.

Starlink Group 8-19 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-10-17 23:31 UTC, or 2024-10-17 19:31 local time (EDT). Booster 1076-17 to land on Just Read the Instructions.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1jKKUMKs4Q
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d_NFAbHGhA
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRveNsk03t4
• The Launch Pad: none
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1847418964592165349
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHkd_a56RnA

Infographic source: rykllan

Minor correction: B1061 was intentionally expended on its 23rd flight for the Hera mission, and thus is no longer flightworthy.

https://x.com/_rykllan/status/1846901037757583421

• B1067 in first place at 22 flights. (B1061 and B1062 each reached 23 but failed recovery or were intentionally expended)
• B1063 in second place with 20 flights.
• B1071 in third place at 19 flights.
• B1069 in fourth place at 18 flights.
• B1073 in fifth place at 17 flights.

https://x.com/_rykllan/status/1846901041981170139

Starlink Group 9-7 launch out of SLC-4E in California currently scheduled for 2024-10-15 08:21 UTC, or 2024-10-15 01:21 local time (PDT). B1071-19 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8J-ee8HNA
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpBv4YHFPXM
• NASASpaceflight:
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0x1EXkwIKs
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1846102654990336462
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_bROD6EBo8

Starlink Group 10-10 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-10-15 06:10 UTC, or 2024-10-15 02:10 local time (EDT). Booster 1080-11 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqzUHHt1iXQ
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6jFNc9suE
• NASASpaceflight:
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YnzvCqPwcU
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1846069635617378645
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt7ke-9F0mk

Well folks, it's finally time to launch Europa Clipper!

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-10-14 16:06 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-10-14 12:06 (EDT) | | Launch site | LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. | | Launch vehicle | Falcon Heavy | | Center | 1090-1 (expendable) | | Booster | 1064-6 (expendable) | | Booster | 1065-6 (expendable) | | Customer | NASA | | Payload | Europa Clipper | | Mission success criteria | Successful deployment of payload into Heliocentric Orbit |

Side boosters previously supported the following missions: USSF-44, USSF-67, Jupiter 3, Psyche, USSF-52.

Livestreams

| Stream | Link | |

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| | NASA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQToTWKwtuw | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n8vgZ2qSl0 | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZjszhRVo9s | | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JUn8LmGYEA | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBlz2VtS30 | | Everyday Astronaut | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAixoyE78rE | | SpaceX | | | The Space Devs | |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 2nd Falcon Heavy launch this year, 11th overall

☑️ 18th launch from LC-39A this year

☑️ 34 days, 6:42:11 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 96th SpaceX launch this year, 396th overall (excluding Starship tests)

☑️ 99th SpaceX launch this year, 411th overall (including Starship tests)

☑️ 27th consecutive successful Falcon 9 / Heavy launch (if successful)

Payload info: Europa Clipper

NextSpaceflight:

Europa Clipper will conduct a detailed survey of Europa and use a sophisticated suite of science instruments to investigate whether the icy moon has conditions suitable for life. Key mission objectives are to produce high-resolution images of Europa's surface, determine its composition, look for signs of recent or ongoing geological activity, measure the thickness of the moon’s icy shell, search for subsurface lakes, and determine the depth and salinity of Europa's ocean.

Resources and articles:

• NASA mission timeline
• SpaceX mission page
• Next Spaceflight mission page
• Ars Technica article
• SpaceNews article

Please post small launch updates, discussions, and questions here! Also feel free to leave feedback or suggestions for the mod team.

Tweet link: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1845442658397049011

Download link: https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1845442585206325256/vid/avc1/640x360/6I7DJjMFjh1YpTfT.mp4?tag=16 https://twittervideodownloader.com/download

https://i.imgur.com/IShVL0y.gifv

Here's a clip of B12's landing burn and catch by the chopsticks from LabPadre's Rover 2 stream.

SpaceX launched its fifth Starship vehicle Oct. 13, successfully making an unprecedented “catch” of its Super Heavy booster back at the launch site.

The Starship/Super Heavy vehicle lifted off from the company’s Starbase site at Boca Chica, Texas, at 8:25 a.m. Eastern on a mission called Flight 5 by SpaceX.

The main upgrade for this test was an attempt by SpaceX to recover the Super Heavy booster by having it come back to the launch site, where it would be cradled by two mechanical arms, sometimes called “chopsticks,” attached to the launch tower it lifted off from. That required the booster to perform precise boostback and landing burns to guide the stage back to the launch pad.

The Super Heavy booster, known as Booster 12, achieved that feat. The booster descended over the pad and the two arms closed around the top of the booster, just below the grid fins, about seven minutes after liftoff, achieving the desired catch of the booster.

Well folks, it's time for the first booster RTLS and chopsticks catch attempt!

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-10-13 12:25 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-10-13 07:25 (CDT) | | Launch Window (UTC) | 2024-10-13 12:00 to 2024-10-13 12:30 (30 minutes) | | Launch site | Pad A, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA. | | Booster | B12 | | Ship | S30 | | Booster landing | Chopsticks catch at Pad A or soft water landing in Gulf of Mexico | | Ship landing | Indian Ocean |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07kCgVCMCfA | | Everyday Astronaut | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKI7y3DTXk | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyR_M5rCL64 | | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC87WmFN_As | | LabPadre | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOJ54Y22cVI | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpB62C9wWNA | | VideoFromSpace | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QHfZzGZs0 | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1845210284270682178 | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfuxxqc5yaI |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 3rd Starship Full Stack launch this year

☑️ 5th Starship Full Stack launch overall

☑️ 98th SpaceX launch this year

☑️ 409th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship hops)

☑️ 3rd launch from Pad A this year

☑️ 128 days, 23:10:00 turnaround for this pad

Mission Details 🚀

• SpaceX website (current): Starship's Fifth Flight Test

Link to Starship Dev thread

Speaking at an Oct. 9 meeting of the National Academies’ Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space, Bill Gerstenmaier, SpaceX vice president for build and flight reliability, expressed optimism that the booster could make it back for a catch by the launch tower. “We landed with half a centimeter accuracy in the ocean” on the previous flight, he said, “so we think we have a reasonable chance to go back to the tower.”