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Launched 2021-12-09 06:00 UTCLaunch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1061 Landed
The first stage landed on Just Read the Instructions, on its 5th flight.
Worldwide
129th
orbital launch attempt in 2021
SpaceX
32nd
launch this year
Launch Complex 39A
11th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
28 d 3 h
since the pad's previous launch
Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a space observatory tasked with measuring the polarization of cosmic X-rays. This data will help to learn more about objects that emit these X-rays, such as black holes and neutron stars.
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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98%
Landings
687
of 715
Upcoming
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scheduled
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Launch success
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather 80%
Nosu
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T-0 confirmed by NASA
Nosu
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Weather 70%
Nosu
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Moving forward to December 9 and adding launch time.
Nosu
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Delayed to December 13.
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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