Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, 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.
NAOS
NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembourg Earth Observation System). Its purpose is to provide high resolution images to national and international governmental and military organizations such as NATO. The 800 kg satellite is built by OHB Italia and is equipped with a very high-resolution optical camera with a ground reolution of 50 cm in an around 450 km high sun-synchronous orbit. It will have a operational life time of 7 years.
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 441
Consecutive Success 144
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-12-09T07:16:00+0000
NET 1H 2025.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-24T10:54:29+0000
Launch vehicle switched from Vega-C to Falcon 9.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-04-18T23:57:31+0000
Vega-C RTF NET 2024.
spacevogel
2022-02-17T18:42:41+0000
Satellite testing is planned for November, launch is no earlier than that.
