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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulCommunicationsFalcon 9 Block 5
Launched 2023-08-27 01:05:40 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1080 Landed
The first stage landed on Just Read the Instructions, on its 3rd flight.
Worldwide
136th
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
60th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
33rd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
9 d 21 h
since the pad's previous launch
A batch of 22 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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Successful deployment of 22 Starlink satellites
SwGustav
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Liftoff
SwGustav
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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Adding seconds to T-0
Nosu
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Setting GO and updating launch window to match available opportunities.
Nosu
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Adding T-0
Nosu
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Delayed by a day due to the Crew-7 delay per the latest NGA notice
Nosu
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Setting GO
hitura-nobad
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Updating T-0 and launch window to match backup opportunities.
Nosu
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launched delayed to August 26th UTC, weather 90% GO
hitura-nobad
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Weather 80%
Nosu
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Updating window and T-0
Nosu
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Delayed by 1 day per marine navigation warnings.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather 85%
Nosu
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Updating approximate T-0 per latest NGA notice
Nosu
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Targeting August 23 between 00:00 and 05:00 UTC (8pm-1am EDT).
Nosu
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Targeting August 21 per NOTAM F2710/23
Nosu
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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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