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Launched 2022-10-15 05:22 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Landed
B1069 Landed
The first stage landed on Just Read the Instructions, on its 3rd flight.
Worldwide
139th
orbital launch attempt in 2022
SpaceX
47th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
23rd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
6 d 6 h
since the pad's previous launch
Geostationary communications satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space for Eutelsat.
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
SwGustav
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Coverage is live
SwGustav
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Slip to end of window
Cosmic_Penguin
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1 hour slip for additional launcher data review
Cosmic_Penguin
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Setting GO
Nosu
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Weather 90%
Nosu
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Adjusting T-0
Nosu
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Delayed by a day
Nosu
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NET October 14 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin
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TBD October
Nosu
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Updating date
Nosu
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Adding launch window
Nosu
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Adding launch on October 17. Payload identity unclear
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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