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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 8-5 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - June 4, 2024

Launch Date: June 4, 2024 (EDT)Launch Time: 10:16 p.m. EDT (0216 UTC, 04:16 CEST - June 5)Launch Window: 8:04 p.m. to 11:27 p.m. Launch Trajectory: North-Eas...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with 20 Starlink satellites

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 20 satellites for Elon Musk's Starlink internet service, including 13 with direct to cellphone ...

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Starlink Group 8-5

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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%
B1067 - Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • June 5, 2024, 3:26 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 5, 2024, 2:16 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • June 5, 2024, 2:07 a.m.

Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • June 5, 2024, 1:39 a.m.

Updated launch weather.


Nosu • June 4, 2024, 7:54 p.m.

Setting GO


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
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


B1067

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: June 3, 2021
Last Flight: December 8, 2025
Flights: 32
Landings Attempted: 32
Landings Successful: 32
Previous B1067 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1067 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 20th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at Just Read the Instructions.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 609 Failures: 15 Pending: 124

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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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