SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now
SpaceX is set to launch another batch of 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit on its Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday afternoon.
Liftoff from Platform 40 of the Cape Canaveral Space Station is scheduled during a four-hour launch window that opens at 3:26 p.m. EST (2026 UTC). A Thursday launch would break a pad rotation record for SpaceX, second only to the NROL-77 mission two days earlier.
The mission, Starlink 6-90, is the company’s 161st orbital launch of the year and its 118th flight in 2025 carrying Starlink satellites.
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage approximately one hour before takeoff.
SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 B1083 booster. This will be its 16th flight following the launches of missions like IM-2, Polaris Dawn and Crew-8.
Approximately 8.5 minutes after takeoff, the B1083 will aim for a landing on the “Just Read the Instructions” drone ship positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. If successful, this will be the 137th landing on this ship and the 549th booster landing for SpaceX to date.
