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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.
A batch of 48 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consumers. The constellation is planned to have around 648 microsatellites (of which 60 are spares), around 150 kg each, operating in Ku-band from low Earth orbit.
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 343
Consecutive Success 46
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Serial B1076
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 18
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-1
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-01-10T06:29:13+0000
All satellites confirmed deployed, launch success
SwGustav
2023-01-10T04:50:36+0000
Liftoff
SwGustav
2023-01-10T04:37:12+0000
Coverage live
Nosu
2023-01-08T16:46:46+0000
Delayed by a day. Weather now >90%
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-01-06T17:20:11+0000
Go for launch.
Nosu
2023-01-05T15:32:10+0000
Weather 90%
Nosu
2023-01-03T16:44:18+0000
Setting TBC
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-01T17:52:41+0000
NET January 2023
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-07-26T10:33:09+0000
Added launch per newest info of OneWeb RTF arrangements.
Satellite constellation in low Earth orbit that can provide high-speed broadband internet to rural and isolated areas.
2023-01-10T23:52:33+0000
Teslarati
2023-01-10T13:52:17+0000
SpaceNews
2023-01-10T07:13:26+0000
Spaceflight Now
2023-01-10T05:39:23+0000
NASASpaceflight
2023-01-09T06:33:46+0000
Teslarati
2023-01-09T00:43:26+0000
Spaceflight Now