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Launched 2023-04-28 22:12 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Medium Earth Orbit
Landed
B1078 Landed
The first stage landed on Just Read the Instructions, on its 2nd flight.
Worldwide
64th
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
28th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
15th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
9 d 7 h
since the pad's previous launch
Third and fourth 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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Landings
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Upcoming
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scheduled
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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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New T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
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New T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
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Setting GO
Nosu
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Weather 20%
Nosu
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Added launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updating T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET April/Q2
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET March
Cosmic_Penguin
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Setting pad
Nosu
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NET late February
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET January 2023
Cosmic_Penguin
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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