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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 8-9 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - July 3, 2024

Launch Date: July 3, 2024Launch Time: 4:55 a.m. EDT, 08:55 UTC, 10:55 CEST Launch Window: 2:01 a.m. - 5:59 a.m. EDTLaunch Status: Successful Lift-Off & Del...

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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 8-9

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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%
B1073 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

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

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Nosu • July 3, 2024, 10:12 a.m.

Successful launch


Nosu • July 3, 2024, 8:55 a.m.

Liftoff


LL2 • July 3, 2024, 8:45 a.m.

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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
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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


B1073

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: May 14, 2022
Last Flight: November 18, 2024
Flights: 19
Landings Attempted: 19
Landings Successful: 19
Previous B1073 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1073 landed on ASDS ASOG after its 16th flight.

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

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 433 Failures: 12 Pending: 114

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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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