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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 7-16 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - March 19, 2024

SpaceX is targeting Monday, March 18 for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenbe...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 22 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg SFB, California

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 22 second-generation Starlink internet satellites. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 7:28 p.m. PDT on Mo...

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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 7-16

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 4E Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
B1075 - Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 22 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. 2 US military Starshield satellites are also on board.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • March 19, 2024, 3:36 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 19, 2024, 2:28 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • March 19, 2024, 2:21 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • March 18, 2024, 11:21 p.m.

GO for launch.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 18, 2024, 12:53 p.m.

Tweaked launch window.


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
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
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  • 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


B1075

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: January 19, 2023
Last Flight: April 29, 2026
Flights: 22
Landings Attempted: 22
Landings Successful: 22
Previous B1075 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1075 has landed on ASDS OCISLY after its 10th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at Of Course I Still Love You.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 672 Failures: 15 Pending: 132

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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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