Image: SpaceX
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Project Starfall Demonstration Mission
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
SpaceX's 694th launch · 75th this year · humanity's 7,323rd orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Weather concerns: Cumulus Cloud Rule
Window: Jun 23, 10:43 – Jun 23, 11:43 UTC
Flight preview
Project Starfall Demonstration Mission
Note: Mission profile and payload details are TBD. Demonstration mission for SpaceX’s Project Starfall, which aims to mass-produce reentry capsules designed to autonomously transport valuable customer experiments and other payloads safely back from space to Earth, including for in-orbit manufacturing. Starfall is a cylindrical shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters, weighing approximately 2100 kilograms, and capable of carrying 1000 kilograms of payload. It is designed to be carried on Starship flights.
Technology · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Booster
- B1078 · flight 29 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ A Shortfall of Gravitas · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-47 · zone record 162/163
Watch
- SpaceX Project Starfall Demonstration Mission — The Space Devs
- Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starfall reentry demonstration mission from Cape Canaveral — Spaceflight Now
- SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starfall Demo — NASASpaceflight
- Starfall Demo Mission — SpaceX
Flight timeline
- T−38MGO for Prop Load
- T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
- T−35MProp Load
- T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
- T−7MEngine Chill
- T−1MTank Press
- T−1MStartup
- T−45SGO for Launch
- T−3SIgnition
- P0DLiftoff
- T+1M8SMax-Q
- T+2M25SMECO
- T+2M28SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M36SSES-1
- T+3M8SFairing Separation
- T+6M31SEntry Burn Startup
- T+7M2SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+8M25SStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+8M49SStage 1 Landing
Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/24/2026 · source
Spacecraft separation.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/23/2026 · source
Liftoff!
hitura-nobad · 6/23/2026 · source
Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
LL2 · 6/23/2026 · source
Now targeting Jun 23 at 10:53 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/23/2026 · source
Updated launch weather, 95% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/22/2026 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/19/2026 · source
Delayed to NET June 23.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/18/2026 · source
Added launch (mission details is TBD).
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/15/2026 · source
News
SpaceX launches secretive Starfall reentry demo mission
SpaceX launched the first test flight of its Starfall reentry capsule June 23, but the mission remained as secretive as the program itself.
Launch Preview: Pegasus XL to launch amongst Falcon 9 and Chinese missions
This week’s launch manifest includes six orbital launches worldwide, including the first Pegasus XL launch…
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch reentry capsule demo mission called ‘Starfall’
The mission is the debut of a new reentry capsule developed by SpaceX that weighs about 2,100 kg (4,600 lbs). Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 6:43 a.m. EDT (1043 UTC).
SpaceX to test upcoming Starfall reentry vehicle with demonstration mission on Tuesday
SpaceX is set to launch a demonstration mission for its Starfall reentry vehicle early on…
Launch Preview: 10 launches scheduled from sites across the world
A very busy launch manifest is expected in the upcoming week, with 10 launches scheduled…
Pad — Space Launch Complex 40
Local pad time: Jun 23, 6:53 AM EDT
393 launches from this pad · 1,121 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Open in maps