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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.
First mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. Rideshare includes Lunar Flashlight, NASA's cubesat that will search for water ice at the Moon’s South Pole.
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 342
Consecutive Success 45
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Serial B1073
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 19
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-2
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-11T09:43:47+0000
Launch success, both payloads AOS completed
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-11T07:38:49+0000
Liftoff
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-11T07:23:14+0000
Webcast live
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-07T09:48:53+0000
New launch date and time.
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-06T07:15:01+0000
No longer scheduled on December 7.
Nosu
2022-12-04T16:56:06+0000
Weather >90%
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-03T03:49:44+0000
Possible new launch date for HAKUTO-R per marine space closure notices.
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-01T00:11:28+0000
Launch delayed, new date TBD
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-11-30T04:04:11+0000
24 hours delay
Nosu
2022-11-27T20:21:17+0000
Weather >90%
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-11-24T08:17:25+0000
Slip by 1 day.
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-11-23T03:44:39+0000
New launch date
Nosu
2022-11-17T06:24:41+0000
Adding official T-0 and setting GO
SwGustav
2022-10-31T10:40:58+0000
NET Nov 22
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-10-24T04:07:33+0000
Moved to November 2022, date TBD.
Nosu
2022-10-13T13:38:13+0000
Targeting the November 9-15 launch window
Nosu
2022-07-20T14:25:48+0000
NET November 2022
Nosu
2022-01-25T17:33:51+0000
NET Q4 2022
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ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander will attempt a lunar landing after a successful lunar orbital insertion.
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2022-10-13T06:20:35+0000
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