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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulCommunicationsFalcon 9 Full Thrust
Launched 2017-03-30 22:27 UTCLaunch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Success
Reached Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Landed
B1021 Landed
The first stage landed on Of Course I Still Love You, on its 2nd flight.
Worldwide
18th
orbital launch attempt in 2017
SpaceX
4th
launch this year
Launch Complex 39A
3rd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
14 d 16 h
since the pad's previous launch
SES-10 is a 5300 kg geostationary communications satellite, which will replace AMC 2 and AMC 3 satellites. It will provide coverage over Mexico, Central and South Americas, and the Caribbean.
The SES-10 mission will mark a historic milestone on the road to full and rapid reusability as the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket. Falcon 9’s first stage for the SES-10 mission previously supported the successful CRS-8 mission in April 2016.
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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Landings
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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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