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Launched 2019-04-11 22:35 UTCLaunch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Success
Reached Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit
Landed
B1055 Landed
The first stage landed on Of Course I Still Love You, on its 1st flight.
Worldwide
24th
orbital launch attempt in 2019
SpaceX
4th
launch this year
Launch Complex 39A
2nd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
40 d 14 h
since the pad's previous launch
Arabsat-6A is a Saudi Arabian communications satellite to be positioned at 30.5°East orbital slot. Arabsat-6A was built by Lockheed Martin for Arabsat and will deliver TV, internet and mobile phone services to the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
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
70m
Diameter
12.2m
To low Earth orbit
63,800kg
Liftoff thrust
22,819kN
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