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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulCommunicationsFalcon 9 Block 5
Launched 2024-08-10 12:50 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
The second stage shut down at T+8:39.
Landed
B1067 Landed
The first stage landed on Just Read the Instructions, on its 21st flight.
Worldwide
145th
orbital launch attempt in 2024
SpaceX
79th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
37th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
5 d 21 h
since the pad's previous launch
Planned times, from liftoff at . The result is at the top of the page.
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.
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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather 95% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
Launch Library 2
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Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updated launch window to de-conflict with another Falcon 9 launch at Cape Canaveral the same day.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Tweaked launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Scrubbed due to recovery weather conditions
Nosu
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Targeting the end of the window
Nosu
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Launch window extended.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updating T-0
Nosu
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New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Setting GO
Nosu
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Update window end
Nosu
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Weather 90% GO, decreasing to 80% at the end of the window
hitura-nobad
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NET August 9.
Cosmic_Penguin
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T-0 accurate to the second
Nosu
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Targeting NET August 7 per NOTAMs F2764/24.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Reverting to TBD July pending completion of the investigation into the Starlink Group 9-3 second engine failure
Nosu
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Targeting NET July 17 per NOTAMs F2464/24.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Reverting back to April TBD with relevant marine navigation warnings and NOTAMs cancelled.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Targeting NET April 5 UTC per NOTAM A1078/24.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Added launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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