{"id":766814,"date":"2026-06-28T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766814\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:32:10","slug":"watch-spacex-launch-15000-pound-siriusxm-satellite-to-orbit-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766814\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch SpaceX launch 15,000-pound SiriusXM satellite to orbit tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX will launch a big SiriusXM radio satellite to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast tonight (June 28), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket topped with the 15,400-pound (7,000 kilograms) SXM-11 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> tonight during a four-hour window that opens at 10:25 p.m. EDT (0225 GMT on June 29).<\/p>\n

You can watch it live via SpaceX<\/a>. Coverage will begin about 15 minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n

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SiriusXM’s SXM-10 satellite deploys from the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on June 7, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

If all goes according to plan tonight, the Falcon 9’s first stage will come back to Earth for a landing about 8.5 minutes after launch. It will touch down in the Atlantic Ocean on the SpaceX<\/a> drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas.”<\/p>\n

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According to a SpaceX mission description,<\/a> it will be the 17th flight for this particular booster, which is designated B1085.<\/p>\n

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The Falcon 9’s upper stage, meanwhile, will continue carrying SXM-11 to an elliptical geosynchronous transfer orbit, where it will be deployed 34.5 minutes after liftoff.<\/p>\n

SXM-11 will then circularize its distant path around our planet and join SiriusXM’s satellite-radio fleet, which currently consists of seven spacecraft.<\/p>\n

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Previous missions for Booster 1085<\/p>\n

SpaceX has launched three of those spacecraft to date \u2014 SXM-8 in June 2021, SXM-9 in December 2024<\/a> and SXM-10 in June 2025<\/a>. All rode to orbit on Falcon 9 rockets.<\/p>\n

SpaceX has launched 75 Falcon 9 missions so far in 2026. The vast majority of those flights \u2014 80% of them \u2014 have been dedicated to building out the company’s Starlink<\/a> broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX will launch a big SiriusXM radio satellite to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast tonight (June 28), and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-766814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}