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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-42
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
SpaceX's 701st launch · 82nd this year · humanity's 7,336th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Weather concerns: Cumulus Cloud Rule
Window: Jul 9, 09:05 – Jul 9, 13:05 UTC
Flight preview
Starlink Group 10-42
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Communications · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Booster
- B1067 · flight 36 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ A Shortfall of Gravitas · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-35 · zone record 162/163
Watch
- SpaceX Starlink Group 10-42 — The Space Devs
- Live: Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with 29 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink service — Spaceflight Now
- SpaceX Launches Record Breaking Falcon 9 with Starlink 10-42 — NASASpaceflight
- Starlink 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+1M12SMax-Q
- T+2M26SMECO
- T+2M29SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M36SSES-1
- T+2M59SFairing Separation
- T+6MEntry Burn Startup
- T+6M22SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+7M56SStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+8M19SStage 1 Landing
- T+8M40SSECO-1
- T+54M10SSES-2
- T+54M11SSECO-2
- T+1H3M31SStarlink Deployment
Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 7/9/2026 · source
Liftoff!
hitura-nobad · 7/9/2026 · source
Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
LL2 · 7/9/2026 · source
Now targeting Jul 09 at 09:25:43 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 7/9/2026 · source
Now targeting Jul 09 at 09:25 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 7/8/2026 · source
Updated launch weather, 90% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin · 7/8/2026 · source
Added launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/25/2026 · source
News
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The flight-leading booster, B1067, will launch the Starlink 10-42 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff from pad 40 is scheduled for 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 UTC) on Thursday morning.
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Pad — Space Launch Complex 40
Local pad time: Jul 9, 5:25 AM EDT
393 launches from this pad · 1,121 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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