SpaceXFalcon 9 Block 5Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 26
Launch window
No countdown — this launch time is not yet known to the minute.May 15, 2021Add to calendar
Launch SuccessfulWeather 70% go
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SpaceX's 136th launch · 19th this year · humanity's 6,080th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: May 15, 22:56 – May 15, 22:56 UTC
Flight preview
Starlink 26 & Rideshare
A batch of 52 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. Two rideshare satellites are also on this flight: a Capella radar observation spacecraft and a small payload from the California-based smallsat manufacturer Tyvak.
Communications · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Booster
- B1058 · flight 8 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ Of Course I Still Love You · landed · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 23 · zone record 209/217
Watch
- Falcon 9 Starlink 26 & Rideshare — The Space Devs
- Starlink Mission — SpaceX
