Starlink 6-98 mission deployed 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites to low Earth orbit, lifting off just 45 hours after the previous mission from Cape Canaveral's SLC-40 — a record pad turnaround; booster B1085 landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 16.7 T
- Flight
- 531st
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 14 January 2026, 18:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2026-008
- Launches in 2026
- 9th of 243
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