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Launched 2013-12-03 22:41 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Worldwide
73rd
orbital launch attempt in 2013
SpaceX
3rd
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
2nd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
277 d 7 h
since the pad's previous launch
SES-8 is a geostationary communications satellite, providing broadcasting and network services for South Asia and India.
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
68.4m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
13,150kg
Liftoff thrust
5,883kN
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