Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV06

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV06

Space Launch Complex 40
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

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SpaceX

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.

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GPS III SV06

GPS-IIIA (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known as "tranche") of GPS III satellites.

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Falcon 9 Block 5


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 258

Consecutive Success 258

Maiden Flight 2018-05-11

Launch Failures 0


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Serial B1077

Status active

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 11


Landing Attempt Yes

Landing Success Yes

Type ASDS

Location ASOG


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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-01-18T16:34:05+0000

Launch success.

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SwGustav

2023-01-18T12:24:18+0000

Liftoff

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SwGustav

2023-01-18T12:14:37+0000

Coverage live

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-01-18T11:35:53+0000

New T-0

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-01-17T18:36:30+0000

Go for launch.

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Nosu

2023-01-16T06:58:40+0000

Updating launch window

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Nosu

2023-01-15T15:00:40+0000

Weather >90%

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-01-13T13:12:21+0000

Added launch window.

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Nosu

2023-01-03T18:37:54+0000

Adding T-0 and setting TBC

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Nosu

2022-10-27T04:23:48+0000

NET January

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Nosu

2022-03-25T22:17:51+0000

Q4 2022

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.

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