{"id":61756,"date":"2026-06-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=1038e372eea059073c2a39f96c68fed6"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:07:07","slug":"watch-spacex-launch-15000-pound-siriusxm-satellite-to-orbit-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/06\/28\/watch-spacex-launch-15000-pound-siriusxm-satellite-to-orbit-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 15,000-pound SiriusXM satellite to orbit from Florida (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/mCRyJuF1.html\" id=\"mCRyJuF1\" title=\"SpaceX launches and deploys 15,000-pound SiriusXM satellite, nails landing\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>SpaceX launched a big SiriusXM radio satellite to orbit from Florida's Space Coast on Sunday night (June 28).<\/p><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\"><u>Falcon 9<\/u><\/a> rocket topped with the 15,400-pound (7,000 kilograms) SXM-11 spacecraft lifted off from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/33926-cape-canaveral.html\"><u>Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/u><\/a> Sunday  at 10:25 p.m. EDT (0225 GMT on June 29).<\/p><p>The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth for a landing about 8.5 minutes after launch as planned, touching down in the Atlantic Ocean on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\"><u>SpaceX<\/u><\/a> drone ship \"A Shortfall of Gravitas.\"<\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2823px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"PWXCNRV45PHyXN2Y2VhySg\" name=\"Screenshot 2026-06-28 at 11.35.39\u202fPM\" alt=\"view from a rocket's upper stage showing a cubical spacecraft deploying into space\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/PWXCNRV45PHyXN2Y2VhySg.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2823\" height=\"1588\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">SiriusXM's SXM-11 satellite deploys from the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on June 28, 2025. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sxm11\" ><u>SpaceX mission description,<\/u><\/a> it was the 17th flight for this particular booster, which is designated B1085. <\/p><p>The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying SXM-11 to an elliptical geosynchronous transfer orbit, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/2071428922705657956\" ><u>where it was deployed<\/u><\/a> on schedule, 34.5 minutes after liftoff. <\/p><p>SXM-11 will now circularize its distant path around our planet and join SiriusXM's satellite-radio fleet, which currently consists of seven spacecraft.<\/p><div  class=\"fancy-box\"><div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Previous missions for Booster 1085<\/div><div class=\"fancy_box_body\"><p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/international-space-station\/dolphins-welcome-spacexs-crew-9-astronauts-home-after-splashdown-video\"><strong>Crew 9<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launches-private-fram2-astronauts-on-historic-spaceflight-over-earths-poles\"><strong>Fram 2<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launching-mysterious-rrt-1-mission-from-florida-tonight\"><strong>RRT-1<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/the-universe\/moon\/were-on-the-moon-private-blue-ghost-moon-lander-aces-historic-lunar-landing-for-nasa\"><strong>Blue Ghost Mission 1<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launches-sirius-xm-radio-satellite-to-orbit-lands-rocket-on-ship-at-sea-photos\"><strong>SXM-10<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launches-advanced-european-weather-satellite-mtg-s1-lands-rocket-at-sea-photos\"><strong>MTG-S1<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launches-15-000-pound-tv-satellite-to-orbit-on-its-30th-mission-of-the-year-photos\"><strong>EchoStar XXV<\/strong><\/a><strong> | 9 Starlink missions<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><p>SpaceX has now launched four of those spacecraft to date. The others were SXM-8 in June 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-to-launch-sirius-xm-radio-satellite-this-morning\"><u>SXM-9 in December 2024<\/u><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launches-sirius-xm-radio-satellite-to-orbit-lands-rocket-on-ship-at-sea-photos\"><u>SXM-10 in June 2025<\/u><\/a>, all of which also rode to orbit on Falcon 9 rockets.<\/p><p>SpaceX has launched 76 Falcon 9 missions so far in 2026. The vast majority of those flights \u2014 nearly 80% of them \u2014 have been dedicated to building out the company's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites.html\"><u>Starlink<\/u><\/a> broadband megaconstellation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/low-earth-orbit\"><u>low Earth orbit<\/u><\/a>.<\/p><p><em><strong>Editor's note: <\/strong><\/em><em>This story was updated at 2:30 a.m. ET on June 28 with news of successful launch, rocket landing and satellite deployment.<\/em><\/p>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched a big SiriusXM radio satellite to orbit from Florida&#8217;s Space Coast tonight (June 28).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2799,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-launches-amp-spacecraft","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61892,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61756\/revisions\/61892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}