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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.
Third and fourth of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.
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 B1078
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 14
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type ASDS
Location JRTI
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-04-29T02:46:31+0000
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-04-28T22:12:34+0000
Liftoff.
LL2
2023-04-28T21:56:56+0000
Livestream has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-04-28T20:59:32+0000
New T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-04-28T20:52:17+0000
New T-0
Nosu
2023-04-27T19:55:11+0000
Setting GO
Nosu
2023-04-25T15:44:16+0000
Weather 20%
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-04-23T07:04:06+0000
Added launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-03-28T16:13:29+0000
Updating T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-02-27T07:21:01+0000
NET April/Q2
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-02-17T02:35:10+0000
NET March
Nosu
2023-02-02T20:31:38+0000
Setting pad
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-01-09T18:17:04+0000
NET late February
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-11-03T09:44:02+0000
NET January 2023
2024-04-30T17:52:29+0000
SpaceNews
2023-04-29T01:19:40+0000
SpaceNews
2023-04-28T19:10:06+0000
Teslarati
2023-04-28T17:10:49+0000
NASASpaceflight
2023-04-24T20:10:04+0000
Teslarati
2023-04-11T14:01:00+0000
SpaceNews