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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulCommunicationsFalcon 9 Block 5
Launched 2023-10-22 02:17 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1080 Landed
The first stage landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas, on its 4th flight.
Worldwide
171st
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
77th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
43rd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
4 d 1 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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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Webcast live
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adding seconds to T-0
Nosu
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Go for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather 95% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updating T-0
Nosu
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Adding T-0
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Adding window based on latest NGA notices
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Delayed to early October 22 UTC per NOTAM F3403/23
Nosu
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Added tentative launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET October 21
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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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