12:33 am ET December 15, 2025
SpaceX Falcon 9 booster lands on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas
Rick Neale
The Falcon 9 first-stage booster simply landed aboard SpaceX’s drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas within the Atlantic Ocean, finishing its ninth mission.
12:25 am ET December 15, 2025
Liftoff!
Rick Neale
Liftoff! SpaceX has simply launched the Falcon 9 carrying 29 Starlink satellites from wind-swept Cape Canaveral House Power Station.
12:20 am ET December 15, 2025
SpaceX rocket launch webcast begins
Rick Neale
SpaceX’s launch webcast is now posted above, proper beneath our countdown clock.
Liftoff is scheduled in 5 minutes from Cape Canaveral House Power Station.
12:10 am ET December 15, 2025
SpaceX rocket launch arising in quarter-hour from Cape Canaveral
Rick Neale
Fifteen minutes earlier than SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifts off, the countdown seems to be continuing as deliberate.
Following is an inventory of key remaining countdown milestones. T-minus:
- 7 minutes: Falcon 9 begins engine chill previous to launch.
- 1 minute: Command flight pc begins ultimate prelaunch checks; propellant tank pressurization to flight stress begins.
- 45 seconds: SpaceX launch director verifies “go for launch.”
- 3 seconds: Engine controller instructions engine ignition sequence to begin.
- 0 seconds: Falcon 9 liftoff.
12:00 am ET December 15, 2025
SpaceX rocket booster to land on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas
Rick Neale
Immediately’s mission will mark the Falcon 9 first-stage booster’s ninth flight, SpaceX reported.
The booster beforehand launched NROL-69, CRS-32, GPS III-7, USSF-36 and 4 Starlink missions.
Following stage separation, crews count on the booster to land on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas at sea 8 minutes, 17 seconds after liftoff.
11:55 pm ET December 14, 2025
SpaceX rocket fueling is lastly underway
Rick Neale
Falcon 9 fueling procedures are actually going down at Launch Complicated 40, as indicated by a frost ring rising on the rocket’s exterior.
Meaning the Starlink mission countdown is locked in to elevate off at 12:25 a.m. with none delays, or else this early morning launch have to be postponed to a later date.
11:32 pm ET December 14, 2025
One other delay. SpaceX now concentrating on 12:25 a.m. for Falcon 9 liftoff
Rick Neale
The brand new goal launch time is 12:25 a.m.
11:25 pm ET December 14, 2025
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch countdown highlights
Rick Neale
This is a step-by-step information to the minutes main as much as launch from SpaceX’s behind-the-scenes Falcon 9 countdown timeline. T-minus:
- 38 minutes: SpaceX launch director verifies “go” for propellant load.
- 35 minutes: Rocket-grade kerosene and first-stage liquid oxygen loading begins.
- 16 minutes: Second-stage liquid oxygen loading begins.
- 7 minutes: Falcon 9 begins engine chill previous to launch.
- 1 minute: Command flight pc begins ultimate prelaunch checks; propellant tank pressurization to flight stress begins.
- 45 seconds: SpaceX launch director verifies “go” for launch.
- 3 seconds: Engine controller instructions engine ignition sequence to begin.
- 0 seconds: Liftoff.
11:15 pm ET December 14, 2025
SpaceX launch to be 107th of 12 months from Florida’s House Coast
Rick Neale
SpaceX’s upcoming Falcon 9 launch will clock in because the 107th orbital rocket launch up to now throughout 2025 from Cape Canaveral House Power Station and NASA’s Kennedy House Heart.
Click on right here for the FLORIDA TODAY House Workforce’s updating tally itemizing all of this 12 months’s missions, full with photograph galleries and story hyperlinks.
11:01 pm ET December 14, 2025
SpaceX pushes again launch try once more, to 12:08 a.m. Monday
Rick Neale
Yet one more delay. SpaceX simply introduced the brand new goal liftoff time is 12:08 a.m. Monday.
10:55 pm ET December 14, 2025
Winds whipping up excessive surf, rip currents forward of SpaceX launch try
Rick Neale
Including to the Cape’s ongoing meteorological warnings, a Nationwide Climate Service excessive surf advisory will take impact at 1 a.m. Monday throughout northern Brevard County.
Anticipate massive breaking waves as much as 10 ft excessive within the surf zone. A excessive rip present threat is already in impact by way of late Monday night time.
10:39 pm ET December 14, 2025
Wind gusting as much as 25 mph at Cape Canaveral forward of SpaceX launch
Rick Neale
As of 9:55 p.m., the Nationwide Climate Service reported a north wind of 17 mph — punctuated by gusts as much as 25 mph — at Cape Canaveral House Power Station.
Largely cloudy skies prevailed, with a temperature of 67 levels and 10-mile visibility.
10:23 pm ET December 14, 2025
SpaceX led world in spacecraft launched by large margin in Q3
Rick Neale
SpaceX launched 854 of the world’s 1,044 spacecraft throughout the third quarter of this 12 months, reported BryceTech, an analytics agency primarily based in Alexandria, Virginia.
For perspective’s sake, the China Aerospace Science and Expertise Corp. ranked a distant second with 89 spacecraft.
United Launch Alliance and Roscosmos tied for third place by launching 29 spacecraft every.
10:02 pm ET December 14, 2025
SpaceX publicizes new Tuesday liftoff goal for various Starlink mission
Rick Neale
Reasonably than Monday morning, SpaceX crews will now purpose to launch the Starlink 6-99 mission at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy House Heart, in accordance with the corporate web site. Extra particulars:
- Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch 29 Starlink web satellites into low-Earth orbit.
- Trajectory: Southeast.
- Sonic booms: No.
- Stay protection: Begins 90 minutes earlier than liftoff at floridatoday.com/house.
9:48 pm ET December 14, 2025
SpaceX launch try additionally going through Nationwide Climate Service wind advisory
Rick Neale
The Nationwide Climate Service issued a wind advisory this night for northern Brevard County — together with the Cape and Titusville — ranging northward to Daytona Seaside and New Smyrna Seaside.
Meteorologists count on north winds of 15 to 25 mph, with gusts reaching as much as 35 mph.
“Gusty winds will blow round unsecured objects. Tree limbs might be blown down and some energy outages might end result,” a NWS climate message stated.
The wind advisory will expire at 9 a.m. Monday.
9:31 pm ET December 14, 2025
SpaceX pushes again Falcon 9 launch try to 11:49 p.m.
Rick Neale
SpaceX crews have moved again tonight’s liftoff goal time roughly 1½ hours, to 11:49 p.m.
9:16 pm ET December 14, 2025
Extra SpaceX launch climate forecast particulars
Rick Neale
The forty fifth Climate Squadron predicted troublesome liftoff winds in its forecast, which talked about right this moment’s chilly entrance would deliver “a reinforcing shot of cool, dry air.”
“Though little to no precipitation is anticipated with the frontal passage, robust excessive stress centered over the Ohio Valley will create a really tight stress gradient behind the entrance. This can deliver a surge of northerly winds on Sunday night close to the opening of the window, with winds more likely to enhance because the night time progresses,” the forecast stated.
“The primary concern is the low-level winds violating liftoff constraints, together with the low threat of a coastal bathe violating the flight by way of Cumulus Cloud Rule,” the forecast stated.
9:03 pm ET December 14, 2025
SpaceX launch prep underway in Brevard County
Rick Neale
Brevard County Emergency Administration officers have activated the company’s launch operations help group forward of SpaceX’s upcoming Falcon 9 launch.
8:49 pm ET December 14, 2025
Monday morning missions postponed by ULA, SpaceX amid windy climate
Rick Neale
Earlier right this moment, United Launch Alliance officers postponed their Monday morning Atlas V launch try from Cape Canaveral House Power Station.
ULA is now concentrating on 3:28 a.m. Tuesday for liftoff. That 29-minute launch window will final till 3:57 a.m., and the Atlas V will carry 27 Amazon Leo web satellites into low-Earth orbit.
What’s extra, SpaceX’s web site now lists the Starlink 6-99 mission — which was additionally slated for launch Monday morning from NASA’s Kennedy House Heart — with a TBD liftoff goal time.
Observe FLORIDA TODAY’s December launch schedule for the most recent updates.
8:39 pm ET December 14, 2025
House Power points robust wind warning forward of SpaceX launch try
Rick Neale
A powerful wind warning went into impact about 8:05 p.m., calling for winds of 25 knots gusting as much as 35 knots for all geographic areas at Cape Canaveral House Power Station and NASA’s neighboring Kennedy House Heart.
The warning will stay in impact till 10 a.m. Monday.
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