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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-78
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
SpaceX's 603rd launch · 154th this year · humanity's 7,124th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Nov 21, 03:01 – Nov 21, 07:01 UTC
Flight preview
Starlink Group 6-78
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
- B1080 · flight 23 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ Just Read the Instructions · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-15 · zone record 156/157
Watch
- SpaceX Starlink Group 6-78 — The Space Devs
- Watch Live: Falcon 9 becomes 100th rocket to fly from Cape Canaveral in 2025 — Spaceflight Now
- SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 6-78 — NASASpaceflight
- Starlink Mission — SpaceX
Flight timeline
- T+1M12SMax-Q
- T+2M24SMECO
- T+2M28SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M34SSES-1
- T+2M57SFairing Separation
- T+6M7SEntry Burn Startup
- T+6M34SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+7M59SStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+8M23SStage 1 Landing
- T+8M38SSECO-1
- T+53M45SSES-2
- T+53M46SSECO-2
- T+1H4M52SStarlink Deployment
Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/21/2025 · source
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/21/2025 · source
Now targeting Nov 21 at 03:39 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/21/2025 · source
Now targeting Nov 21 at 03:21 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/20/2025 · source
Weather is >95% Go.
hitura-nobad · 11/19/2025 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/18/2025 · source
Added launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/13/2025 · source
Pad — Launch Complex 39A
Local pad time: Nov 20, 10:39 PM EST
222 launches from this pad · 281 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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