SpaceX takes off a Falcon 9 rocket to deploy a satellite in geostationary orbit. The flight is planned tonight and can be followed live.
SpaceX may have experienced an important setback with the explosion of the upper floor of its giant Starship rocket, the American company has not interrupted its other activities. Since June 18, 2025, rocket shots have continued at a good pace, with six launches with the Falcon 9. A seventh arrives.
The launch in summary
- Quoi ? The orbit of a geostationary satellite;
- When ? July 1, 2025, at 11:04 p.m. (Paris time);
- Or ? In the Kennedy space center, in Florida;
- What will we see? Take off the Falcon 9 rocket.
Where to look at the live launch?
The shot is broadcast on the official SpaceX website.
What is SpaceX’s mission?
A standard mission for SpaceX: it is a question of transporting a satellite in geostationary orbit, via its rocket Falcon 9. As usual, once the payload launched in the atmosphere, the first floor of the launcher will go automatically to earth and land on a barge, off the coast.
The payload, precisely, brings together two earth observation missions: the Meteosat Third Generation Soundnder (MTG-S1) satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument.
MTG-S1 will produce a new type of data, cut for immediate forecasting of extreme weather phenomena, thanks to three-dimensional atmosphere views, according to the European space agency. As for Copernicus sentinel-4, he will monitor air quality in Europe, providing hourly data.
It turns out that originally, it was not SpaceX which was supposed to convey this payload operated by EUMETSAT (the organization for the exploitation of meteorological satellites in Europe), but … Arianespace, with the Ariane 6 rocket. The decision to change the carrier in the summer of 2024 had caused some frustrations and annoyances at the time.
When takes off the Falcon 9 rocket?
In principle, takeoff is fixed on the night of July 1 to 2, 2025, Paris time-but locally, in Florida, it will be barely 5:04 p.m. in the afternoon. There is uncertainty about the possibility of shooting, according to SpaceX. In a step of step published on July 1, the company noted that the weather conditions were 80 %unfavorable.
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