Overview
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 (x 9)
To Be DeterminedSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
August 31, 2026 — 00:00 UTC
Image credit: SpaceX
Launch Provider
SpaceX
- Country
- United States of America
- Founded
- 2002
- Leadership
- CEO: Elon Musk
- Launch Record
- 694 success, 15 failed
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Mission
Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 (x 9)
- Type
- Communications
- Target Orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax services via its Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees. In early 2022, Globalstar contracted with MDA for the construction of 17 new 2nd generation refresh satellites to replenish the existing constellation. Rocket Lab is sub-contracted to build the satellites' buses and the launch dispensers.
Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 Block 5
- Height
- 70.0 m
- Diameter
- 3.65 m
- Liftoff Mass
- 549.0 t
- Liftoff Thrust
- 7607.0 kN
- Mass to LEO
- 22800.0 kg
- Mass to GTO
- 8300.0 kg
- Reusable
- Yes
- Maiden Flight
- 2018-05-11
- Launch Success
- 612 / 614
- Consecutive Success
- 315
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.
Booster / First Stage
Core — Unknown F9
- Serial
- Unknown F9
- Status
- N/A
- Flight Proven
- No
- Landing Attempt
- Yes
- Landing Success
- Unknown
- Landing Site
- A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG)
Launch Site
Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.
Countdown Sequence
| T-00:38:00 | Launch director verifies go for propellant load |
| T-00:35:00 | Start of liquid oxygen loading in the first stage |
| T-00:35:00 | Start of propelland loading |
| T-00:16:00 | Start of liquid oxygen loading in the second stage |
| T-00:07:00 | Start of engine chilling |
| T-00:01:00 | The onboard computer takes control over the countdown and runs last checks |
| T-00:01:00 | Fuel tanks are pressurized to flight levels |
| T-00:00:45 | Launch director verifies go for launch |
| T-00:00:03 | Start of the engine ignition sequence |
| T+00:00:00 | First upwards movement of the rocket |
| T+00:01:09 | Maximum dynamic pressure |
| T+00:02:26 | Cut-off of the main engine |
| T+00:02:30 | Separation of the second stage from the first |
| T+00:02:37 | First start of the second engine |
| T+00:03:09 | Separation of the payload fairing |
| T+00:06:40 | Start of the atmospheric entry burn |
| T+00:07:03 | End of the atmospheric entry burn |
| T+00:08:14 | First cut-off of the second engine |
| T+00:08:25 | Start of the first stage landing burn |
| T+00:08:49 | Landing of the first stage |
| T+00:53:20 | Second start of the second engine |
| T+00:53:36 | Second cut-off of the second engine |
| T+01:01:37 | Start of the payload deployment sequence |
| T+01:08:17 | End of the payload deployment sequence. |
Latest Updates
NET August.
July 16, 2026 — 21:08 UTC
Reverted back to NET June TBD.
June 15, 2026 — 22:09 UTC
NET June 20, TBC.
June 08, 2026 — 15:45 UTC
NET early June.
May 17, 2026 — 20:22 UTC
Postponed to May TBD.
May 15, 2026 — 21:33 UTC
Updated launch window.
May 14, 2026 — 14:59 UTC