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Starlink Group 10-5

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 80%
B1085 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 22 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 20, 2024, 2:43 p.m.

Launch success.


hitura-nobad • Aug. 20, 2024, 1:20 p.m.

Liftoff!


LL2 • Aug. 20, 2024, 1:10 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 20, 2024, 2:21 a.m.

New T-0.


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 20, 2024, 1:10 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
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • 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
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1085

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: August 20, 2024
Last Flight: November 19, 2025
Flights: 12
Landings Attempted: 12
Landings Successful: 12

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1085 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 1st flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at A Shortfall of Gravitas.

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 606 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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