SpaceX is planning to launch a Falcon 9 rocket Monday morning from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The Starlink 6-99 mission will add another 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to its broadband internet constellation in low Earth orbit. The company has launched more than 3,000 of its Starlink satellites so far in 2025.
SpaceX is targeting liftoff from Launch Complex 39A during a window that opens at 8:11 a.m. EST (1311 UTC) on Dec. 15. The Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon leaving Florida’s Space Coast.
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.
SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number 1094. This will be its sixth flight following the launches of missions like Crew-11, Ax-4 and Cygnus NG-23.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1094 will target an autonomous landing on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean to the east of the Bahamas. This will be the 146th landing on this vessel and the 552nd booster landing to date for SpaceX.
