SpaceX launches SiriusXM radio satellite from Florida

SpaceX launches SiriusXM radio satellite from Florida

SpaceX launched a large SiriusXM satellite from Florida's Space Coast on Sunday night.

In June 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage designated B1085 lifted a 15,400-pound SiriusXM broadcasting satellite off a Cape Canaveral pad on its seventeenth flight — the same booster that had carried Crew-9 to the space station, Firefly's Blue Ghost lander toward the Moon, and nine separate Starlink batches into orbit

On the night of June 28, 2026, a Falcon 9 first stage that had already lifted off and landed sixteen times pushed a 15,400-pound SiriusXM broadcasting satellite away from Cape Canaveral. Eight and a half minutes later the booster — designated B1085 — was standing upright on a drone ship in the Atlantic, parked under floodlights, ready to be towed back to Port Canaveral for the seventeenth time. The SXM-11 satellite reached its initial geosynchro…

SpaceX Falcon 9 Deploys SiriusXM SXM-11 Satellite on 17th Flight of Veteran Booster

Reading Time: 3 minutesKey Takeaways: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully deployed the SiriusXM SXM-11 communication satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The mission relied on booster B1085 making its 17th operational flight, concluding with a precise touchdown on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas. Manufactured by Lanteris Space Systems, the 7,000 kg spacecraft features a massive 10 meter mesh reflector antenna to enhance …