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Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with 24 Starlink satellites

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 24 second-generation satellites for Elon Musk's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral...

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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 6-69

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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%
B1080 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Nov. 11, 2024, 10:35 p.m.

Launch success.


hitura-nobad • Nov. 11, 2024, 9:28 p.m.

Liftoff!


LL2 • Nov. 11, 2024, 9:18 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


hitura-nobad • Nov. 11, 2024, 9:04 p.m.

Fuel loading underway, targeting 21:28 UTC for liftoff.


hitura-nobad • Nov. 11, 2024, 8:57 p.m.

launch time currently uncertain, no visible signs of fuel loading as of 20:55 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: June 25, 2025
Flights: 20
Landings Attempted: 20
Landings Successful: 20
Previous B1080 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage booster B1080 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 12th 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: 516 Failures: 15 Pending: 117

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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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