SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is getting ready for its penultimate Falcon 9 rocket launch of October, which is ready to fly from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station round lunchtime on Wednesday.

The Starlink 10-37 mission will carry 29 of the corporate’s Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit.

Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 is scheduled for 12:16 p.m. EDT (1616 UTC). The satellites will probably be deployed roughly an hour into the mission.

Spaceflight Now can have reside protection starting about an hour previous to liftoff.



The forty fifth Weather Squadron forecast a 95 p.c probability for favorable climate throughout the launch window. Meteorologists stated that situations within the booster restoration space “remain a watch item, due to elevated waves off the (South) Carolina coast.”

SpaceX will launch the mission utilizing its first stage booster with the tail quantity B1083. This will probably be its fifteenth flight after launching missions, like Crew-8, Polaris Dawn and Intuitive Machines Mission 2.

About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1083 will goal a touchdown on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions’. If profitable, this would be the 139th touchdown on this vessel and the 526th booster touchdown to this point.

The Starlink 10-37 mission will probably be simply the second time that SpaceX launches the utmost variety of the V2 Mini satellites that the Falcon 9 is able to launching whereas flying in a reusable booster configuration. The first time SpaceX flew at max capability was the Starlink 6-84 mission on May 4, 2025.