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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
SpaceX's 622nd launch · 3rd this year · humanity's 7,176th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Weather concerns: Cumulus Cloud Rule
Window: Jan 9, 18:03 – Jan 9, 22:03 UTC
Flight preview
Starlink Group 6-96
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
- B1069 · flight 29 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ A Shortfall of Gravitas · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-51 · zone record 161/162
Watch
- SpaceX Starlink Group 6-96 — The Space Devs
- Watch Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with 29 Starlink satellites — Spaceflight Now
- SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 6-96 — NASASpaceflight
- Starlink Mission — SpaceX
Flight timeline
- T+1M12SMax-Q
- T+2M24SMECO
- T+2M27SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M34SSES-1
- T+2M56SFairing Separation
- T+6M6SEntry Burn Startup
- T+6M32SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+7M59SStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+8M23SStage 1 Landing
- T+8M38SSECO-1
- T+53M51SSES-2
- T+53M52SSECO-2
- T+1H4M58SStarlink Deployment
Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/9/2026 · source
Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
LL2 · 1/9/2026 · source
Liftoff!
hitura-nobad · 1/9/2026 · source
Now targeting Jan 09 at 21:41 UTC
hitura-nobad · 1/9/2026 · source
Now targeting Jan 09 at 20:29 UTC
hitura-nobad · 1/9/2026 · source
Now targeting Jan 09 at 19:35 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/9/2026 · source
Now targeting Jan 09 at 18:05 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/9/2026 · source
Updated launch weather, 95% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/8/2026 · source
Now targeting Jan 09 at 18:03 UTC
hitura-nobad · 1/8/2026 · source
Now targeting Jan 08 at 21:59 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/8/2026 · source
Pad — Space Launch Complex 40
Local pad time: Jan 9, 4:41 PM EST
393 launches from this pad · 1,121 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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