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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulDedicated RideshareFalcon 9 Block 5 · Dedicated SSO Rideshare
Launched 2023-06-12 21:35 UTCSpace Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Success
Reached Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Landed
B1071 Landed
The first stage landed at Landing Zone 4, on its 9th flight.
Worldwide
90th
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
41st
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 4E
12th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
12 d 15 h
since the pad's previous launch
Transporter 8 mission is a dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with 72 small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
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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Upcoming
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scheduled
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All payloads deployed successfully
Jay
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Liftoff of Falcon 9 carrying 72 payloads
Jay
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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Correcting T-0
Jay
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Updating T-0
Jay
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Refined T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Added launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET June 12.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Targeting June 8
Nosu
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Updating pad
Nosu
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NET June 2023
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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