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The next space launch, retrieved from our Launch Library 2 API, is Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-8. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA at 2024-09-25 03:59:00 UTC. Until then, this pad will have been used for 159 out of 771 launches from this location. The launch status is currently TBC 🟨 . The mission type is Communications and the payload will be injected into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

• [2024-09-25 03:59:00 UTC] 🟨 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-8 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.
• [2024-09-26 18:05:00 UTC] 🟩 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-9 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.
• [2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] 🟧 Ceres-1 | Unknown Payload from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China.
• [2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] 🟧 Falcon 9 Block 5 | OneWeb 20 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.
• [2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] 🟧 Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 18 from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation.
• [2024-09-30 05:24:20 UTC] 🟧 H-IIA 202 | IGS Radar 8 from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan.
• [2024-10-04 10:00:00 UTC] 🟩 Vulcan VC2S | Certification Flight 2 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.
• [2024-10-07 14:52:00 UTC] 🟨 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hera from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.
• [2024-10-10 16:31:00 UTC] 🟩 Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
• [2024-10-20 06:42:00 UTC] 🟩 H3-22 | DSN 3 (Kirameki 3) from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan.

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