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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulGovernment/Top SecretFalcon Heavy
Launched 2022-11-01 13:41 UTCLaunch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Success
Reached Geostationary Orbit
Landed
B1064 Landed
The first stage landed at Landing Zone 1, on its 1st flight.
Worldwide
149th
orbital launch attempt in 2022
SpaceX
50th
launch this year
Launch Complex 39A
15th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
26 d 21 h
since the pad's previous launch
Classified US Space Force carrying two payloads directly to geostationary orbit. One is called the Shepherd Demonstration, and the other is LDPE 2 spacecraft that carries three hosted payloads and three deployable sub-satellites. One of them is an experimental microsatellite called TETRA-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
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Upcoming
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scheduled
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Successful launch of Falcon Heavy for the United States Space Force.
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Liftoff
Nosu
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Webcast live
Nosu
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Refined launch window.
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Weather 90%
Jay
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Go for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Slip by 1 day.
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Adding launch time
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Delayed to October 31, towards the late morning EDT.
Nosu
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NET October 28
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NET October 2022
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NET June
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NET March due to payload issues
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Delayed to early 2022 due to payload issues.
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NET October 9th
SwGustav
Height
70m
Diameter
12.2m
To low Earth orbit
63,800kg
Liftoff thrust
22,819kN
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