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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 6-60 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - May 28, 2024

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SpaceX

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 6-60

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1078 - 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

hitura-nobad • May 28, 2024, 3:41 p.m.

Launch Successful


Cosmic_Penguin • May 28, 2024, 2:24 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • May 28, 2024, 2:15 p.m.

Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


hitura-nobad • May 28, 2024, 12:36 p.m.

New T-0 14:24 UTC


Cosmic_Penguin • May 28, 2024, 11:41 a.m.

New NET 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


B1078

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: March 2, 2023
Last Flight: August 2, 2024
Flights: 12
Landings Attempted: 12
Landings Successful: 12
Previous B1078 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1078 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 10th flight.

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

SpaceX

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 388 Failures: 12 Pending: 117

Agency Type:

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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