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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.
Four Astranis MicroGEO communications satellite inserted in a custom geostationary orbit, from where they conduct on-orbit maneuvers to reach their individual slots.
Height 70.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 8300 kg
Liftoff Thrust 7607 kN
Diameter 3.65 Meters
Mass To LEO 22800 kg
Liftoff Mass 549 Tonnes
Launch Success 345
Consecutive Success 48
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-10T15:34:00+0000
NET November.
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2024-06-14T00:19:14+0000
NET Q3 2024.
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2024-02-21T23:29:17+0000
NET mid-2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-16T07:13:35+0000
NET Q1 2024.
Nosu
2022-04-05T20:13:09+0000
Adding launch TBD 2023
2022-04-07T11:09:30+0000
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