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Launched 2017-08-24 18:51 UTCSpace Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Success
Reached Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Landed
B1038 Landed
The first stage landed on Just Read the Instructions, on its 1st flight.
Worldwide
53rd
orbital launch attempt in 2017
SpaceX
12th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 4E
3rd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
59 d 22 h
since the pad's previous launch
Formosat 5 is an Earth observation satellite developed by the Taiwan's National Space Organization (NSPO). Weighing about 475 kg, it will reside in a sun-synchronous orbit at 720-km altitude.
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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Landings
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of 715
Upcoming
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scheduled
Height
71m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
6,804kN
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