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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - MTG-S1/Sentinel-4A - LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - July 1, 2025

Launch Date: July 1, 2025 Launch Time: 5:04 p.m. EDT, 2104 UTC, 23:04 CEST Launch Window: 150 minutes - opens at 5:04 p.m. EDT Launch Site: LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center, Florida Targeted Orbit: Geost...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 for EUMETSAT, European Commission

Watch live coverage as a Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite on behalf of the European Oganisation for the Exploration of Meteorological Satellit...

🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches MTG-S1/Sentinel-4A

MTG (Meteosat Third Generation) is the follow-up system to the Meteosat MSG series of geostationary satellites. The satellite system will consist of a twin configuration of 3-axis-stabilised satellite...

MTG-S1 Mission

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MTG-S1

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Overview

Destination: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Mission: Earth Science

Geostationary Transfer Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Probability: 20%
B1085 - Just Read the Instructions

Second of EUMETSAT's third generation of weather satellite.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • July 1, 2025, 10:43 p.m.

Spacecraft in operation.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 1, 2025, 9:40 p.m.

Spacecraft separation.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 1, 2025, 9:04 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • July 1, 2025, 8:44 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • July 1, 2025, 3:42 a.m.

GO for launch.


Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
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  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
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  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Booster Info


B1085

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: August 20, 2024
Last Flight: September 21, 2025
Flights: 11
Landings Attempted: 11
Landings Successful: 11
Previous B1085 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage booster B1085 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 9th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at Just Read the Instructions.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 585 Failures: 15 Pending: 116

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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