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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-98
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
SpaceX's 625th launch · 6th this year · humanity's 7,182nd orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Weather concerns: Thick Cloud Layers Rule, Cumulus Cloud Rule
Window: Jan 14, 18:01 – Jan 14, 22:01 UTC
Flight preview
Starlink Group 6-98
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
- B1085 · flight 13 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ A Shortfall of Gravitas · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-94 · zone record 161/162
Watch
- SpaceX Starlink Group 6-98 — The Space Devs
- Live: SpaceX launches 29 Starlink internet satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral — Spaceflight Now
- SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 6-98 — NASASpaceflight
- Starlink Mission — SpaceX
Flight timeline
- T+1M12SMax-Q
- T+2M24SMECO
- T+2M28SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M36SSES-1
- T+2M57SFairing Separation
- T+6M6SEntry Burn Startup
- T+6M34SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+7M55SStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+8M20SStage 1 Landing
- T+8M40SSECO-1
- T+53M52SSES-2
- T+53M54SSECO-2
- T+1H4M59SStarlink Deployment
Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/14/2026 · source
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/14/2026 · source
Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
LL2 · 1/14/2026 · source
Now targeting Jan 14 at 18:08 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/14/2026 · source
Updated launch weather, 40% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/13/2026 · source
Now targeting Jan 14 at 18:01 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/8/2026 · source
Now targeting Jan 13 at 18:28 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/5/2026 · source
Added launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/2/2026 · source
Pad — Space Launch Complex 40
Local pad time: Jan 14, 1:08 PM EST
393 launches from this pad · 1,121 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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