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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 20 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 322
Consecutive Success 25
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Serial B1082
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 6
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Unknown
Type RTLS
Location LZ-4
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-08T00:55:00+0000
No longer scheduled for NET October 9.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-02T06:08:00+0000
Tweaked launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-09-30T12:02:00+0000
Delayed to October 9.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-09-29T09:46:00+0000
NET October 1 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-09-29T05:01:00+0000
Delayed to NET October 2 UTC per Space Launch Delta 30.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-09-27T18:57:00+0000
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-09-24T23:47:00+0000
Tweaked launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-09-24T15:48:00+0000
Added approximate launch time per NOTAMs A3093/24.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-08-24T12:49:55+0000
Added launch.
Satellite constellation in low Earth orbit that can provide high-speed broadband internet to rural and isolated areas.