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GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-25 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - March 18, 2025

Launch Date: March 18, 2025 Launch Time: 3:57 p.m. EDT, 19:57 UTC, 20:57 CET Launch Window: Open until 6:00 p.m. EDT Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA Targeted O...

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Starlink Group 12-25

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 95%
B1077 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Nosu • March 18, 2025, 9:05 p.m.

Launch success


Nosu • March 18, 2025, 7:58 p.m.

Liftoff


LL2 • March 18, 2025, 7:47 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • March 18, 2025, 1:20 a.m.

GO for launch.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 17, 2025, 6:56 p.m.

Updated T-0.


Falcon 9

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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
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    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


B1077

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: October 5, 2022
Last Flight: March 18, 2025
Flights: 19
Landings Attempted: 19
Landings Successful: 19
Previous B1077 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1077 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 19th flight.

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

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 469 Failures: 14 Pending: 107

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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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