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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulBooster landing failedFalcon 9 Full Thrust
Launched 2016-03-04 23:35 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission
Reached Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Booster landing failed
Landing failed on Of Course I Still Love You
B1020, 1st flight
Worldwide
13th
orbital launch attempt in 2016
SpaceX
2nd
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
73 d 22 h
since the pad's previous launch
Containing 81 Ku-Band transponders, SES-9 will be positioned at 108.2 degrees East to provide communication coverage for 22 million homes. The satellite will enhance SES’s existing coverage in Asia, Australia and also improve maritime communications in the Indian Ocean. The 5300kg craft will use a xenon ion propulsion system for orbital manoeuvres to decrease the amount of propellant needed.
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
742
Successful
727
98%
Landings
687
of 715
Upcoming
136
scheduled
Height
71m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
6,804kN
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