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Launched 2023-03-03 18:38:50 UTCSpace Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1061 Landed
The first stage landed on Of Course I Still Love You, on its 12th flight.
Worldwide
30th
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
15th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 4E
4th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
13 d 23 h
since the pad's previous launch
A batch of 51 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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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scheduled
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Successful launch of 51 Starlink satellites
Nosu
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End of live coverage. Deployment at T+15:22
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Liftoff
Nosu
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Livestream has started
Nosu
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Adding seconds to T-0
Nosu
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Delayed to March 3 at 18:38 UTC
Nosu
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Launch slipped for several hours.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Go for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Moved by one more day.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Delayed to March 1, with a likely further delay if Crew-6 proceeds on March 2.
Nosu
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Updated T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Delay by at least one day due to weather.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adjusting T-0
Nosu
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Weather 30%
SwGustav
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Go for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Added launch window per marine navigation warnings.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET February 27
Nosu
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Adding launch NET late February
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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