SpaceX will launch its record-setting 139th mission of the year today (Oct. 23), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n
A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> today, during a four-hour window that opens at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 GMT on Oct. 24).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SpaceX<\/a> will stream the launch live via its website<\/a> and X account beginning about 15 minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Today’s launch will loft the second and final satellite for the Spainsat Next Generation (NG) constellation, which will provide “military-grade secure communications to the Spanish Armed Forces and its partners,” according to SatNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n SpaceX also launched the first Spainsat NG satellite, which lifted off atop a Falcon 9 this past January<\/a>.<\/p>\n If all goes to plan today, the Falcon 9’s upper stage will deploy the Spainsat NG-2 satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit about 36 minutes after liftoff.<\/p>\n The rocket’s first stage, meanwhile, will not come back to Earth<\/a> for a safe touchdown \u2014 a rarity these days for Falcon 9 missions. The booster is in expendable mode today “due to the additional performance required to deliver this payload to orbit,” SpaceX wrote in a mission description<\/a>.<\/p>\n This mission will be the 22nd for this booster, the company added.<\/p>\n Today’s launch will be the 139th of 2025 for SpaceX, setting a new mark for the company. So far this year, SpaceX has conducted 133 Falcon 9 missions \u2014 also a record \u2014 and five suborbital test flights of its Starship<\/a> megarocket.<\/p>\n