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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulHuman ExplorationFalcon 9 Block 5
Launched 2024-09-10 09:23:49 UTCLaunch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
The second stage shut down at T+8:59 and released Dragon at T+12:16. The nosecone opened at T+12:58.
Landed
B1083 Landed
The first stage landed on Just Read the Instructions, on its 4th flight.
Worldwide
165th
orbital launch attempt in 2024
SpaceX
90th
launch this year
Launch Complex 39A
17th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
28 d 22 h
since the pad's previous launch
Planned times, from liftoff at . The result is at the top of the page.
First mission of the privately funded Polaris program. The goal of this mission, lasting up to five days in orbit, is to fly higher than previous Dragon missions, perform the first-ever commercial EVA with SpaceX-designed spacesuits, orbit through portions of the Van Allen radiation belt, conduct medical research, and test laser-based Starlink communications in space.
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.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updated launch weather predictions.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updated launch weather predictions.
Cosmic_Penguin
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New T-0 due to weather.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
Launch Library 2
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GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather is 40% favorable for launch.
Nosu
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NET September 10 per marine navigation warnings.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET September 9 per marine navigation warnings.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET September 7.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET September 6 per NOTAMs B0713/24.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET September 4.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Launch delayed pending favourable nominal mission splashdown weather conditions.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET August 31 per NOTAMs.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET August 30 due to unfavorable weather at Dragon abort/nominal landing sites.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather is 85% favorable for launch.
hitura-nobad
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24 hours slip due to ground equipment helium leakage.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather 80%
Nosu
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Tweaked launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Tweaked launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adding tentative launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Targeting August 26th
hitura-nobad
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NET August.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Reverting to TBD July pending completion of the investigation into the Starlink Group 9-3 second engine failure
Nosu
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Switch in launch pad.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET July 31.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET mid-July.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET July 12
Nosu
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NET 2nd half of June.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET summer 2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET April 2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET Q1 2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET Q4 2023
Jay
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NET late summer 2023.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET March 2023
Jay
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NET December 2022
Nosu
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NET November
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adding Polaris Dawn, the first mission of the privately-funded Polaris program.
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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