Scheduled for (UTC) 2025-11-17 05:21:42
Scheduled for (local) 2025-11-16, 21:21:42 (PST)
Launch site SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Booster 1097-3
Landing Landing Zone 4
Payload Sentinel-6B
Customers NASA, ESA, NOAA & EUMETSAT
Mission success criteria Successful delivery of payload to LEO

Webcasts

Stream Link
NASA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tyr0ld2ZB4
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47r7vbti-U
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR4l3-TBk-0
NASASpaceflight none
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4aaMUZJx0M
SpaceX none
The Space Devs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeUlDNu7d3k

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 56th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 10 days, 8:07:52 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 30th landing on LZ-4

☑️ 44 days, 15:14:52 turnaround for booster B1097

☑️ 541st Falcon family booster landing, 545th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 147th Falcon 9 launch this year, 565th overall

☑️ 152nd SpaceX mission this year, 592nd overall (excluding Starship hop tests)

☑️ 152nd SpaceX launch this year, 601st overall (including Starship hop tests)

Mission info

Sentinel-6B (Jason-CS-B)

Sentinel-6B aims to continue high-precision ocean altimetry measurements in the 2020–2030 time-frame using two successive, identical satellites, Jason-CS-A and Jason-CS-B.

A secondary objective of Sentinel-6 is to collect high-resolution vertical profiles of temperature, using the GNSS Radio-Occultation sounding technique, to assess temperature changes in the troposphere and stratosphere and to support Numerical Weather Prediction.