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Launched 2022-10-20 14:50:40 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1062 Landed
The first stage landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas, on its 10th flight.
Worldwide
141st
orbital launch attempt in 2022
SpaceX
48th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
24th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
5 d 9 h
since the pad's previous launch
A batch of 54 satellites for 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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Successful deployment of 54 Starlink satellites
SwGustav
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Liftoff
SwGustav
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Coverage live
SwGustav
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Setting GO
Nosu
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Weather >90%
Nosu
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Weather 90%
Nosu
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Weather 80%
Jay
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Adjusting T-0
Nosu
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October 20 launch date confirmed by marine space closure notices
Cosmic_Penguin
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Delayed to NET mid October after 3 other Falcon 9 launches
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updated T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
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Still officially targeting September 30, with weather 20% GO.
Nosu
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No longer able to target September 30 due to insufficient time to turn around drone ships, plus this launch did not receive weather forecast from Space Launch Delta 45 when Atlas V/SES-20 & 21 scheduled on same day received one.
Cosmic_Penguin
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TBD Late September
Nosu
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Reportedly targeting September 26 at 22:38 UTC.
Nosu
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Adding launch NET September
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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