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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-4 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - January 13, 2025

Launch Date: January 13, 2025 Launch Time: 11:47 a.m. ET, 1647 UTC, 17:47 CET Launch Window: up til 1:45 p.m. ET Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA Targeted Orbi...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 21 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 21 satellites for Elon Musk's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is sch...

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

Starlink Group 12-4

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
B1080 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 13, 2025, 5:55 p.m.

Launch success.


hitura-nobad • Jan. 13, 2025, 4:47 p.m.

Liftoff!


LL2 • Jan. 13, 2025, 4:38 p.m.

Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


hitura-nobad • Jan. 13, 2025, 3:22 p.m.

Now targeting Jan 13 at 16:47 UTC


hitura-nobad • Jan. 13, 2025, 1:09 p.m.

Now targeting Jan 13 at 16:43 UTC


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


B1080

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: May 21, 2023
Last Flight: March 31, 2025
Flights: 17
Landings Attempted: 17
Landings Successful: 17
Previous B1080 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1080 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 15th launch.

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

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 484 Failures: 14 Pending: 119

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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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