Falcon 9 Block 5 | Optus-X/TD7
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Launch Window
Nov. 17, 2024, 9:29 p.m. - Nov. 17, 2024, 11:27 p.m.
Nov. 17, 2024, 9:29 p.m. - Nov. 17, 2024, 11:27 p.m.
Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with a mysterious payload named "Optus-X" to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Liftoff from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is scheduled ...
An unannounced geostationary communication satellite built by Northrop Grumman, alleged for the Australian telecommunications operator Optus. Details TBD.
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Launch success.
Liftoff.
Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
Now targeting Nov 17 at 22:28 UTC
Now targeting Nov 17 at 22:08 UTC
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.
See DetailsThe Falcon 9 first stage B1077 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 16th flight.
Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at A Shortfall of Gravitas.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.
INFO WIKI
The launch has been shrouded in secrecy and is being referred as the “TD7 mission” by SpaceX. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A happened Sunday, Nov. 17, at 5:28 p.m. EST (2228 UTC).
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