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The next space launch, retrieved from our Launch Library 2 API, is Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-2. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA at 2024-12-23 05:35:30 UTC. Until then, this pad will have been used for 192 out of 250 launches from this location. The launch status is currently Go 🟩 . The mission type is Communications and the payload will be injected into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

• [2024-12-23 05:35:30 UTC] 🟩 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-2 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
• [2024-12-25 07:45:42 UTC] 🟩 Soyuz 2.1b | Resurs-P No.5 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan.
• [2024-12-26 00:53:00 UTC] 🟩 Kinetica 1 | Unknown Payload from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China.
• [2024-12-27 05:00:00 UTC] 🟨 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Thuraya 4-NGS from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.
• [2024-12-29 01:35:00 UTC] 🟨 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-3 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.
• [2024-12-30 16:00:00 UTC] 🟨 PSLV-CA | SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India.
• [2024-12-31 00:00:00 UTC] 🟧 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Astranis: From One to Many (4x Astranis MicroGEO) from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.
• [2024-12-31 00:00:00 UTC] 🟧 New Glenn | Maiden Flight from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.

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