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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulEarth ScienceFalcon 9 Block 5
Launched 2022-12-30 07:38 UTCSpace Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1061 Landed
The first stage landed at Landing Zone 4, on its 11th flight.
Worldwide
186th
orbital launch attempt in 2022
SpaceX
61st
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 4E
13th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
13 d 19 h
since the pad's previous launch
Israeli Earth Observation satellite with 38 cm resolution in panchromatic mode and 76 cm resolution in multi-spectral mode, covering a swath of ~12.5 km.
The satellite is similar to OPTSAT-3000 built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for the Italian Defense Ministry.
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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Launch success
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff
Cosmic_Penguin
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Webcast live
Cosmic_Penguin
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New T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
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Go for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET December 30 UTC per marine navigation warnings.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Setting TBC
Nosu
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Added launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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