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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-81
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
SpaceX's 595th launch · 146th this year · humanity's 7,108th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Nov 5, 23:08 – Nov 6, 03:08 UTC
Flight preview
Starlink Group 6-81
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
- B1094 · flight 5 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ Just Read the Instructions · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-23 (S.S. William “Willie” C. McCool) · zone record 156/157
Watch
- SpaceX Starlink Group 6-81 — The Space Devs
- Watch Live: SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral — Spaceflight Now
- Falcon 9 launches Starlink 6-81 / Atlas V scrub of Viasat-3 F2 — NASASpaceflight
- Starlink Mission — SpaceX
Flight timeline
- T+1M12SMax-Q
- T+2M24SMECO
- T+2M28SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M35SSES-1
- T+2M57SFairing Separation
- T+6M9SEntry Burn Startup
- T+6M35SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+8MStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+8M22SStage 1 Landing
- T+8M38SSECO-1
- T+53M53SSES-2
- T+53M55SSECO-2
- T+1H5MStarlink Deployment
Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/6/2025 · source
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/6/2025 · source
Now targeting Nov 06 at 01:31 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/5/2025 · source
Now targeting Nov 06 at 01:25 UTC
Nosu · 11/5/2025 · source
Now targeting Nov 05 at 23:48 UTC
Nosu · 11/5/2025 · source
Updated launch weather, >95% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/3/2025 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 10/30/2025 · source
Added launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 10/28/2025 · source
Pad — Space Launch Complex 40
Local pad time: Nov 5, 8:31 PM EST
393 launches from this pad · 1,121 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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