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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulCommunicationsFalcon 9 Block 5
Launched 2021-06-06 04:26 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Landed
B1061 Landed
The first stage landed on Just Read the Instructions, on its 3rd flight.
Worldwide
51st
orbital launch attempt in 2021
SpaceX
22nd
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
11th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
10 d 9 h
since the pad's previous launch
SXM-8 is a large high power broadcasting satellite for SiriusXM's digital audio radio service (DARS).
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) got in July 2016 the contract to build the two satellites based on their SSL-1300 bus - SXM-7 and SXM-8. Satellite design operates in the S-band spectrum. Each satellite will generate more than 20-kW of power and will have a large unfurlable antenna reflector, which enables broadcast to radios without the need for large dish-type antennas on the ground.
SXM-8 is meant to replace the XM-4 satellite. SXM-7 was meant to replace the XM-3, but suffered a failure in orbit 6 weeks after its launch.
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 successful via @Maxar twitter.
scottm3
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Weather 70%
Nosu
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Setting GO
Nosu
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Weather 60%
Nosu
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New launch date.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Launch apparently slipped to early June TBD.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Added launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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