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Launched 2023-08-17 03:36:50 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1067 Landed
The first stage landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas, on its 13th flight.
Worldwide
128th
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
57th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
32nd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
5 d 22 h
since the pad's previous launch
A batch of 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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hitura-nobad
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Liftoff
hitura-nobad
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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Targeting third backup opportunity at 03:36:50 UTC
Jay
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Now targeting the second backup opportunity at 01:55:50 UTC
Jay
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GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updated launch window and T-0
hitura-nobad
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Weather now 20% GO at the start, improving to 65% towards the end.
hitura-nobad
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launch set TBC, Adjusted launch window based on weather forecast valid timeframe. Weather 25% go at the start of the window, increasing to 70% at the end.
hitura-nobad
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Adding approximate launch window per latest NGA Space Debris notice
Nosu
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Targeting early August 17 UTC per NOTAM F2629/23
Nosu
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NET August 14.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adding launch
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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