| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-03-21, 06:49 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-03-20, 23:49 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1088-4 | | Landing | LZ-4 | | Payloads | Reconnaissance satellites | | Customer | National Reconnaissance Office | | Target orbit | LEO |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vp8kZon5Nk | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nkJIjdSCuw | NASASpaceflight | none | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvACDETZfgs | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1902973122195886584 | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/@thespacedevs/videos

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 10th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 6 days, 0:06:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 26th landing on LZ-4

☑️ 426th Falcon Family Booster landing, 439th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 33rd Falcon 9 mission this year, 451st overall

☑️ 33rd SpaceX mission this year, 467th (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 35th SpaceX launch this year, 484th overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight mission page

Launching just 9 days after B1088's previous mission on SPHEREx & PUNCH, NROL-57 will set a new booster turnaround record by around 4 days.

Starlink Group 12-25 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for 2025-03-18 19:57 UTC, or 2025-03-18 15:57 local time (EDT). Booster B1077-19 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mYrvNRKphM
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Vtd6Hzvbc
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCpTUYyvFqo
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ijHeRwsPZ8
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1902085737945952416
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgkRAeLyDzQ

Starlink Group 12-16 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for 2025-03-15 11:35 UTC, or 2025-03-15 07:35 local time (EDT). Booster B1078-18 to land on Just Read the Instructions.

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J9ki29tUk4
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at4gv4ekQKg
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/@NASASpaceflight/streams
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvYRZldOaTU
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1900871745118302243
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfzYlujOTxk

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-03-15, 06:43 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-03-14, 23:43 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1081-13 | | Landing | LZ-4 | | Payloads | 74 | | Customers | Multiple | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to SSO |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqyhBLJy1Cs | Spaceflight Now | none | NASASpaceflight | none | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VGm6Mm1o_g | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1900796688471613495 | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue48gaS7q30

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 9th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 3 days, 3:32:48 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 25th landing on LZ-4

☑️ 424th Falcon Family Booster landing, 436th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 73rd consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 30th Falcon 9 mission this year, 448th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 30th SpaceX mission this year, 464th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 32nd SpaceX launch this year, 482nd SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• SpaceX mission page
• NASASpaceflight article
• NextSpaceflight mission page

Transporter 13 is a dedicated rideshare mission by SpaceX. SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program provides small satellite operators with regularly scheduled, dedicated Falcon 9 rideshare missions to SSO for ESPA class payloads for as low as $300,000 per mission, which includes up to 50kg of payload mass.

Welcome to the SpaceX Crew-10 Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-03-14, 23:03 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-03-14, 19:03 (ET) | | Docking scheduled for (UTC)| 2025-03-16, 04:07 | | Mission | Crew-10 | | Launch site | LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA | | Booster | B1090-2 | | Landing | LZ-1 | | Dragon | C210-4 (Endurance) | | Commander | Anne McClain 🇺🇸| | Pilot | Nichole Ayers 🇺🇸| | Mission Specialist 1 | Takuya Onishi 🇯🇵| | Mission Specialist 2 | Kirill Peskov 🇷🇺| | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and docking to the ISS |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | NASA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf8uN4VGCCs (scrub) | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbp-ZRAULvY (scrub) | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJgYG6REDuY (scrub) | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7knwDRYwa_o (scrub) | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5QHWnooaHc (scrub) | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1900666576988475597 (scrub) | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMrdDkk8UlU

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight, c/SpaceX, and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 7th launch from LC-39A this year

☑️ 15 days, 22:47:18 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 49th landing on LZ-1

☑️ 422nd Falcon Family Booster landing

☑️ 29th Falcon 9 mission of 2024, 447th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 29th SpaceX mission of 2025, 463rd mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 31st SpaceX launch this year, 480th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• NextSpaceflight mission page
• SpaceX mission website

SpaceX Crew-10 is the tenth operational crewed rotation mission of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. The crew is composed of NASA astronauts commander Anne McClain and pilot Nichole Ayes, and mission specialists Takuya Onishi of Japan's JAXA and Kirill Peskov of Russia's Roscosmos. Nichole Ayers will become the first member of NASA’s 2021 astronaut class to launch into orbit.

Crew-10 was planned to debut capsule C213, but due to capsule delays, the decision was made to use C210 (Endurance) instead.

MaxQAerospace: https://x.com/MaxQAerospace/status/1899451109355180053

Could you provide us an insight into what issues you’ve recently been dealing with on Falcon 9?

and also if you’re still on schedule for your planned launch cadance this year?

Kiko Dontchev: https://x.com/TurkeyBeaver/status/1899488103535923362

1. Sea states have been historically bad on the west coast this winter preventing us from efficiently returning boosters and fairings over Ro-Ro barge to Vandenberg. We can go over the road but it requires removing legs/fins to enable highway transport and is generally very inefficient. December - February are usually the worst months of the year for Ro-Ro offload at the Vandy Harbor so we should be through the worst of it.

2. While we are recovering fairings at a high rate, refurb hours increased due to the wind/sea conditions in the winter. Fleet health is improving rapidly though as we inject new fairings and speed up refurb of flown ones.

3. Booster recovery, by design, has less fault tolerance than the ascent part of the mission. The issue on 1080 recovery gave us a chance to learn and improve the reliability of the entire fleet hence the stand down over the past week.

4. As much as we love launching rockets, nothing is more important than safety and reliability. We have stood done multiple times simply to double and triple check the everything even if we could have flown that day. We put even more scrutiny on critical govt and customer missions.

Lastly, we purposely stacked the first quarter of the year to get ahead on our goal (170) for this exact reason and we absolutely can still hit the launch goal. Challenges are to be expected and the team is fully focused on keeping reliability and safety at the top of the list. I love how we feel that we had a tough February when we only launched 12 times 😂😂😂

Ro-Ro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-on/roll-off

Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo

This is in contrast to lift-on/lift-off (LoLo) vessels, which use a crane to load and unload cargo.

Starlink Group 12-21 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for 2025-03-13 02:35 UTC, or 2025-03-12 22:35 local time (EDT). Booster B1069-22 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mktHQ1o2eww (scrub 1)
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moW4k0mSHLI (scrub 2, scrub 1)
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NX08dlsEYo (scrub 2, scrub 1)
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKr2-2jVCII (scrub 2, scrub)
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1900011763002990733
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF45vKqKPzw

https://x.com/Truthful_ast/status/1898155564670103896

Starship engine bay camera showing a missing vacuum Raptor engine

https://x.com/halcyonhypnotic/status/1898251889239617821

Now, I don’t know the validity of this message, it’s sent by the same guy who leaked the s34 aft section after the explosion picture, take it as you will.

First-hand: Starship S34 crash details.

Yesterday's post in the channel about the preliminary causes of the Flight 8 crash is confirmed for now. What else we managed to find out:

• Data indicates that the problem like on S33 during Flight 7 has repeated.
• Again, harmonic oscillations in the distribution of vacuum-insulated fuel lines for RVac (one of the innovations of V2 and the distribution for S34).
• This crash was more destructive than during Flight 7, the corrections to the distribution for S34 did not work or turned out to be almost worse.
• Another source leaked a frame from the engine bay after the TPA and RVac nozzle rupture, and one central Raptor engine.
• Problems with the rupture of methane lines in the oxygen tank only appear as the tank empties.
• When filled, liquid oxygen dampens the oscillations of the distributed lines, when the tank is empty, they increase.
• Harmonics cause a break in the lines in the lower part, where the main wiring for the RVac is located.
• Leaks also caused the engines and regenerative cooling to malfunction, which led to the explosion during the fire in the compartment.
• The updated nitrogen suppression and compartment purge system would not have been able to cope with such a volume of leakage.

The information below may change, but for now:

• Hot separation also aggravates the situation in the compartment.
• Not related to the flames from the Super Heavy during the booster turn.
• This is a fundamental miscalculation in the design of the Starship V2 and the engine section.
• The fuel lines, wiring for the engines and the power unit will be urgently redone.
• The fate of S35 and S36 is still unclear. Either revision or scrap.
• For the next ships, some processes may be paused in production until a decision on the design is made.
• The team was rushed with fixes for S34, hence the nervous start. There was no need to rush.
• The fixes will take much longer than 4-6 weeks.
• Comprehensive ground testing with long-term fire tests is needed.

At one briefing about the upcoming Falcon 9 launch of NASA’s SPHEREx astronomy spacecraft and PUNCH space science mission, Julianna Scheiman, director of NASA science missions at SpaceX, said a fire broke out about 48 seconds after what appeared to be a normal landing of the booster.

“That fire eventually resulted in the deterioration of the structural integrity of the landing leg in that booster and toppled over,” she said.

Scheiman said both SpaceX and NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) reviewed data from the incident. “There’s no concern or risk to ascent.

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-03-12, 03:10 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-03-11, 20:10 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1088-3 | | Landing | Landing Zone 4 | | Payloads | SPHEREx & PUNCH | | Customer(s) | NASA | | Target orbit | Sun-Synchronous Orbit |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | NASA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqBUQoPW0Aw (scrub) | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgy4dvqYqms (scrub) | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88ru3jQy-4%28%5Bscrub%5D%28https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Db88ru3jQy-4%29%29 | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Syg1DzYyQ (scrub) | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZktDx5v-BDY (scrub) | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1899645366280077761 | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFlcSq2DOs

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 8th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 17 days, 1:31:52 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 24th landing on LZ-4

☑️ 420th Falcon booster landing, 433rd Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 27th Falcon 9 mission this year, 445th overall

☑️ 27th SpaceX mission this year, 461st overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 29th SpaceX launch this year, 478th overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight mission page

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer mission will provide the first all-sky spectral survey. Over a two-year planned mission, the SPHEREx Observatory will collect data on more than 300 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe.

PUNCH is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to better understand how the mass and energy of the Sun’s corona become the solar wind that fills the solar system. Four suitcase-sized satellites will work together to produce images of the entire inner solar system around the clock.

Well folks, it's time for the second launch of Starship version 2, as well as another booster RTLS and chopsticks catch attempt! Let's hope the ship fares better this time!

This follows a launch attempt earlier this week which was scrubbed due after a prolonged hold in the countdown while the teams worked multiple issues on the booster, ship, and GSE.

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-03-06 23:30 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-03-03 17:30 (CDT) | | Launch Window (UTC) | 2025-03-03 23:30 to 2025-03-04 00:30 (60 minutes) | | Launch site | Pad A, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA. | | Booster | B15 | | Ship | S34 | | Booster landing | Chopsticks catch at Pad A or soft water landing in Gulf of Mexico | | Ship landing | Indian Ocean |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQG053ogu20 | | Everyday Astronaut | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edUNsegCqQs | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnbnm7OKCw | | NASASpaceflight | Stakeout stream, Launch stream | | LabPadre | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yng6SV8yO0Y | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rY9T2iLtfY | | VideoFromSpace | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Z1ZUxxObs | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1897438948458189156 | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKAe3S6_4bk |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 2nd launch of Starship version 2

☑️ 2nd Starship Full Stack launch this year, 8th overall

☑️ 2nd launch from Pad A this year, 8th overall

☑️ 49 days, 0:53:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 28th SpaceX launch this year, 478th overall

Mission Details 🚀

• SpaceX website (current). Highlights:

• "flight will fly the same suborbital trajectory as previous missions and will target objectives not reached on the previous test"

• "Starship will deploy four Starlink simulators, similar in size to next-generation Starlink satellites"

• Another in-space raptor relight is planned

• "A significant number of tiles have been removed from Starship to stress-test vulnerable areas across the vehicle."

• "Multiple metallic tile options, including one with active cooling, will test alternative materials for protecting Starship during reentry."

• "non-structural versions of Starship’s catch fittings are installed to test the fittings’ thermal performance"

• "flight also includes the launch, return, and catch of the Super Heavy booster"

Link to Starship Dev thread

Just Read The Instructions has pulled into Port Canaveral, carrying the remains of B1086.

Source: Gav Cornwell / NSF: https://bsky.app/profile/space-offshore.com/post/3ljnokgpgvk2s

Rough Bahamas Cruise for Falcon 9...

Well folks, it's time for the second launch of Starship version 2, as well as another booster RTLS and chopsticks catch attempt! Let's hope the ship fares better this time!

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-03-03 23:45 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-03-03 17:45 (CDT) | | Launch Window (UTC) | 2025-03-03 23:30 to 2025-03-04 00:30 (60 minutes) | | Launch site | Pad A, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA. | | Booster | B15 | | Ship | S34 | | Booster landing | Chopsticks catch at Pad A or soft water landing in Gulf of Mexico | | Ship landing | Indian Ocean |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTpZ9y4ZGiM | | Everyday Astronaut | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_4gAtrfi6w | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw8Y4HU0du4 | | NASASpaceflight | Stakeout stream, Launch stream | | LabPadre | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Fq4AJXoXk | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFpYVZfEzcI | | VideoFromSpace | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dsTSWQ2MEA | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1896292787600908747 | | The Space Devs | |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 2nd launch of Starship version 2

☑️ 2nd Starship Full Stack launch this year, 8th overall

☑️ 2nd launch from Pad A this year, 8th overall

☑️ 46 days, 0:53:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 28th SpaceX launch this year, 478th overall

Mission Details 🚀

• SpaceX website (current). Highlights:

• "flight will fly the same suborbital trajectory as previous missions and will target objectives not reached on the previous test"

• "Starship will deploy four Starlink simulators, similar in size to next-generation Starlink satellites"

• Another in-space raptor relight is planned

• "A significant number of tiles have been removed from Starship to stress-test vulnerable areas across the vehicle."

• "Multiple metallic tile options, including one with active cooling, will test alternative materials for protecting Starship during reentry."

• "non-structural versions of Starship’s catch fittings are installed to test the fittings’ thermal performance"

• "flight also includes the launch, return, and catch of the Super Heavy booster"

Link to Starship Dev thread