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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulBooster landing failedFalcon 9 v1.1
Launched 2016-01-17 18:42:18 UTCSpace Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Booster landing failed
Landing failed on Just Read the Instructions
B1017, 1st flight
Worldwide
2nd
orbital launch attempt in 2016
SpaceX
1st
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 4E
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
840 d 2 h
since the pad's previous launch
Jason 3 is a scientific Earth observation satellite designed to monitor and precisely measure the world’s oceans. The final flight of Falcon 9 v1.1.
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
68.4m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
13,150kg
Liftoff thrust
5,883kN
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