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Launched 2023-08-22 09:37:30 UTCSpace Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1061 Landed
The first stage landed on Of Course I Still Love You, on its 15th flight.
Worldwide
130th
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
58th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 4E
17th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
14 d 5 h
since the pad's previous launch
A batch of 21 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.
Launches
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Successful
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Landings
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of 715
Upcoming
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scheduled
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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff
hitura-nobad
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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T-0 now 09:37:30 UTC
hitura-nobad
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T-0 now 09:26 UTC
hitura-nobad
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New T-0 08:36:00 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Now targeting 07:45:20 UTC
Jay
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Setting GO
hitura-nobad
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Added seconds to T-0 and updated launch window
hitura-nobad
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Delayed due to Hurricane Hilary impacting recovery operations in the Pacific. NET August 22nd UTC.
Jay
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Adding seconds to T-0 and backup opportunity
Nosu
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Delayed by a day to August 18 at 7:30 UTC
Nosu
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New T-0
hitura-nobad
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New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adjusting T-0
SwGustav
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Adding approximate launch window per latest NGA Space Debris notice
Nosu
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Targeting August 17 per NOTAM A6218/23
Nosu
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Adding launch NET mid-August
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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