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ProCentennial · MST

SpaceX · Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Starship lifts off on integrated flight test 5.
Photo by Steve Jurvetson. CC BY 2.0. Source
Time still moving

Starship | Superbird-9

· window to · the clock can still move

What this is

SpaceX is launching a rocket called Starship from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. The public listing does not name a cargo yet. This is a very high orbit where a satellite can stay over one region. That helps with TV and weather watches.

SpaceX is flying a Starship from Launch Complex 39A Starship Pad, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. Mission: Superbird-9. Superbird-9 is a high throughput communication satellite. It is designed to deliver broadcast and broadband missions in Ku band primarily over Japan and Eastern Asia, in response to mobility and broadband demands. Planned orbit: Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. Status: To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources. The published time can still slip. Rockets wait for weather, boats, and the range.

Story written from the public listing. A model key can be added later; none is required.

From here

Too far to see

You will not see this rocket from Centennial, Colorado. It is about 1,575 miles east. The broadcast is the view.

That is too far for the flame and, for almost every launch, too far for the high-altitude plume. Dim the lights and watch together anyway. The clock is still loose, so daylight is a guess.

Public places

Viewing spots

Places run by a park or a visitor center near this site. A listing is not a promise you can see the rocket from there.

Space jobs corner

Who is on this flight

Every company we can name, in plain words, plus a careers page when we have a real one.

Careers links are public pages we know. If we do not have one, we do not invent it.

Ask about this launch

Only what the listing says

Questions stay with this launch. If a model key is configured on the server, the answer is cached. Without a key, the reply is taken straight from the record.

Put it on a calendar

So the slip still finds you

A single launch can be saved now. The subscribe feed, on the launches page, is the one that moves when a rocket slips. Calendar alarms do not know about bedtime quiet hours.