Falcon 9 Block 5 | Inmarsat-6 F2

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Inmarsat-6 F2

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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Inmarsat-6 F2

Inmarsat-6 is the sixth generation of satellites for the London-based global mobile satellite communications operator Inmarsat. It consists of a dual mission to augment both L-band and Ka-band Global Xpress services. Airbus Defence and Space has been awarded a contract by Inmarsat to design and develop the first two Inmarsat-6 (I-6) mobile communications satellites, creating the most versatile mobile services satellites in its fleet. The two I-6 satellites are based on Airbus Defence and Space's Eurostar platform in its E3000e variant, which exclusively uses electric propulsion for orbit raising. The satellites take advantage of the reduction in mass that this electric propulsion technology enables for a dual payload mission, with an exceptionally large next generation digitally processed payload. I-6 F1 and F2 both carry a large 9 m aperture L-band antenna and nine multibeam Ka-band antennas, and feature a high level of flexibility and connectivity. A new generation modular digital processor provides full routing flexibility over up to 8000 channels and dynamic power allocation to over 200 spot beams in L-band. Ka-band spot beams are steerable over the full Earth disk, with flexible channel to beam allocation.

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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 JRTI


Updates

SwGustav

2023-02-18T10:03:38+0000

Success confirmed

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-02-18T03:59:37+0000

Liftoff

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-02-18T03:42:46+0000

Webcast started

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Nosu

2023-02-16T19:46:14+0000

Weather 75%

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Nosu

2023-02-15T17:20:42+0000

Weather 65%

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Nosu

2023-02-14T18:13:06+0000

Weather 60%

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-02-14T11:34:39+0000

Launch window confirmed.

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Nosu

2023-02-10T15:04:28+0000

Delayed to February 18

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-02-08T17:25:51+0000

Added launch window

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-02-02T17:38:39+0000

NET February 18

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Nosu

2022-11-18T10:25:42+0000

Adding launch in February 2023

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