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Launched 2023-04-19 14:31:10 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1073 Landed
The first stage landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas, on its 8th flight.
Worldwide
61st
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
25th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
14th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
12 d 10 h
since the pad's previous launch
A batch of 21 v2 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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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff of Falcon 9 carrying 21 Starlink v2 mini satellites
Jay
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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Adjusting T-0 due to space weather (per LD on countdown net)
Jay
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Weather 80%
Nosu
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New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adding seconds to T-0
Nosu
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Updating T-0
Nosu
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Setting GO
Nosu
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Weather 85% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather 90%
Nosu
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Updated T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updated approximate launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Targeting April 19 at 13:33 UTC
Nosu
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Delayed to NET April due to Starlink V2 Mini satellites troubleshooting.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET March 29 mid-morning EDT
Nosu
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NET March 24 (note Group 6-2 identification is per Spaceflight Now’s Launch Schedule)
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adding launch NET March
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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