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Launched 2023-10-13 23:01:10 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 14th flight.
Worldwide
167th
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
74th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
41st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
8 d 17 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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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
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GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Setting seconds for T-0 and adjusting window. This T-0 is dependent on Psyche launch operations.
Jay
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Weather 60%, trending towards 80% at the end of the window
Nosu
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NET October 13 LT.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updating tentative launch times for October 12.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET October 12 LT.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather 25%
Nosu
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Added new tentative launch window per NOTAMs; pending schedule de-conflict with Falcon Heavy/Psyche.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Next launch opportunity is TBD. Priority is the NASA Psyche launch, currently NET Thursday.
Jay
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Setting GO
Nosu
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Scrubbed due to upper level winds, next possible attempt tomorrow.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Hold.
Cosmic_Penguin
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New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updating T-0
Nosu
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Weather 80%
Nosu
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Tweaked launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Added launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Targeting October 9 per the latest NGA Space Debris notices
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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