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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulDedicated RideshareFalcon 9 Block 5 · Beresheet, S5
Launched 2019-02-22 01:45 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Lunar Orbit
Landed
B1048 Landed
The first stage landed on Of Course I Still Love You, on its 3rd flight.
Worldwide
11th
orbital launch attempt in 2019
SpaceX
2nd
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
60 d 11 h
since the pad's previous launch
Spaceflight’s first mission beyond Lower Earth Orbit (LEO) and its first combined launch with SSL. Consists out lunar lander called Beresheet (Hebrew for in the beginning) and AFRL’s S5 satellite.
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.
Launches
742
Successful
727
98%
Landings
687
of 715
Upcoming
136
scheduled
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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