SpaceX is kicking off the month of December with a launch supporting its Starlink broadband internet satellite constellation.
Prior to this flight, SpaceX has launched it’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket a total of 152 times in 2025, with missions to assemble its Starlink constellation accounting for 110 of those. It closed out November with 13 launches in total, 10 of which were for Starlink.
The company is targeting liftoff of the Starlink 6-86 mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for 12:00:30 a.m. EST (0500:30 UTC) on Dec. 1. The rocket will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon departing from Florida’s Space Coast.
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.
SpaceX will launch the Starlink 6-86 mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number 1095. This will be the rocket’s fourth flight after previously launching Starlink missions 12-15, 10-56 and 10-52.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1095 will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions’, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean to the east of The Bahamas.
If successful, this will be the 144th landing on this vessel and the 541st booster landing to date.
