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Launched 2023-01-31 16:15 UTCSpace Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1071 Landed
The first stage landed on Of Course I Still Love You, on its 7th flight.
Worldwide
16th
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
7th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 4E
2nd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
12 d
since the pad's previous launch
A batch of 49 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
This launch carries D-Orbit’s ION SCV009 Eclectic Elena as a rideshare payload.
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
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Landings
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Upcoming
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scheduled
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Successful launch of 49 Starlink satellites and D-Orbit's ION SCV009 Eclectic Elena spacecraft.
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Liftoff
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Live coverage has started
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24 hours slip
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New T-0
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New T-0
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Delayed by a day
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Setting GO & adding rideshare
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Updating T-0, pending a T-0 update expected from SpaceX on Saturday.
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Updated launch time.
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NET January 29 per marine navigation warnings.
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Adding launch NET January
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Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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