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Launched 2019-06-25 06:30 UTCLaunch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Booster landing failed
Landing failed on Of Course I Still Love You
B1057, 1st flight
Worldwide
40th
orbital launch attempt in 2019
SpaceX
8th
launch this year
Launch Complex 39A
3rd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
74 d 7 h
since the pad's previous launch
The STP-2 payload is composed of 25 small spacecraft. Included is COSMIC-2 constellation to provide radio occultation data, along with 8 cubesat nanosatellites. Other payloads include LightSail carried by the Prox-1 nanosatellite, Oculus-ASR nanosatellite, GPIM and the Deep Space Atomic Clock.
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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