Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 13-1, USA 485 & USA 486

Status

Success

Starlink Group 13-1, USA 485 & USA 486

Launch Time
Tue Jan 21, 2025 05:24 UTC

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Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5

Image Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX

Status: Active

Price: $69.75 million

Liftoff Thrust: 7,607 kN

Payload to LEO: 22,800 kg

Payload to GTO: 8,300 kg

Stages: 2

Strap-ons: 0

Rocket Height: 70.0 m

Fairing Diameter: 5.2 m

Fairing Height: 13.0 m

Details

Vehicles

A Shortfall of Gravitas

B1083

Flight #8

23 day turnaround

416th Falcon recovery attempt

402nd successful Falcon recovery

58th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery

Manifest

Mission Details

Starlink Group 13-1

SpaceX launch of a batch of Starlink v2-mini satellites for their second generation high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation.

Payloads: 21

Low Earth Orbit

Wiki

USA 485 & USA 486

SpaceX launched two classified payloads on this mission identified as USA 485 and USA 486 by the US government. It is believed these two satellites are for the NRO's Proliferated Architecture and are based off the company's Starshield satellite bus derived from the Starlink satellite bus.

Payloads: 2

Low Earth Orbit

Location

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Wiki

Stats

2025

14th orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

443rd mission

9th mission of 2025

436th successful mission

73rd consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

427th mission

9th mission of 2025

423rd successful mission

72nd consecutive successful mission