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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulCommunicationsFalcon 9 Block 5
Launched 2022-12-16 22:48 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Medium Earth Orbit
Landed
B1067 Landed
The first stage landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas, on its 8th flight.
Worldwide
180th
orbital launch attempt in 2022
SpaceX
58th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
29th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
5 d 15 h
since the pad's previous launch
First and second of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.
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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Successful deployment and AOS confirmed
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Liftoff
Jay
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Webcast live
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Updating T-0
Nosu
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Updating T-0
Nosu
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Updated launch window and set GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather >90%
Nosu
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Weather 90%
Nosu
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New launch date and time
Cosmic_Penguin
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Re-set to December TBD due to delays in launches ahead in queue.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adding approximate T-0 and setting TBC
Nosu
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NET 15 December 2022
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET Q3 2022
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NET June
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Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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