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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulLunar ExplorationFalcon 9 Block 5
Launched 2022-12-11 07:38:13 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Lunar Orbit
Landed
B1073 Landed
The first stage landed at Landing Zone 2, on its 5th flight.
Worldwide
173rd
orbital launch attempt in 2022
SpaceX
56th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
28th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
18 d 4 h
since the pad's previous launch
First mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace.
Rideshare includes Lunar Flashlight, NASA's cubesat that will search for water ice at the Moon’s South Pole.
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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scheduled
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Launch success, both payloads AOS completed
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff
Cosmic_Penguin
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Webcast live
Cosmic_Penguin
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New launch date and time.
Cosmic_Penguin
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No longer scheduled on December 7.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather >90%
Nosu
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Possible new launch date for HAKUTO-R per marine space closure notices.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Launch delayed, new date TBD
Cosmic_Penguin
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24 hours delay
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather >90%
Nosu
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Slip by 1 day.
Cosmic_Penguin
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New launch date
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adding official T-0 and setting GO
Nosu
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NET Nov 22
SwGustav
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Moved to November 2022, date TBD.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Targeting the November 9-15 launch window
Nosu
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NET November 2022
Nosu
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NET Q4 2022
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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