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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 54 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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 312
Consecutive Success 15
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Serial B1062
Status destroyed
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 23
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type ASDS
Location ASOG
SwGustav
2022-10-20T15:07:59+0000
Successful deployment of 54 Starlink satellites
SwGustav
2022-10-20T14:50:58+0000
Liftoff
SwGustav
2022-10-20T14:45:06+0000
Coverage live
Nosu
2022-10-19T18:33:22+0000
Setting GO
Nosu
2022-10-19T16:47:27+0000
Weather >90%
Nosu
2022-10-18T15:54:57+0000
Weather 90%
Jay
2022-10-17T23:30:26+0000
Weather 80%
Nosu
2022-10-17T20:08:55+0000
Adjusting T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-10-16T04:41:15+0000
October 20 launch date confirmed by marine space closure notices
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-09-29T01:09:51+0000
Delayed to NET mid October after 3 other Falcon 9 launches
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-09-28T10:13:17+0000
Updated T-0
Nosu
2022-09-27T14:38:23+0000
Still officially targeting September 30, with weather 20% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-09-27T02:45:02+0000
No longer able to target September 30 due to insufficient time to turn around drone ships, plus this launch did not receive weather forecast from Space Launch Delta 45 when Atlas V/SES-20 & 21 scheduled on same day received one.
Nosu
2022-09-17T04:21:04+0000
TBD Late September
Nosu
2022-09-14T17:11:26+0000
Reportedly targeting September 26 at 22:38 UTC.
Nosu
2022-08-21T07:45:48+0000
Adding launch NET September
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by American aerospace company SpaceX
2022-10-20T16:13:17+0000
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2022-10-20T13:03:56+0000
NASASpaceflight
2022-10-19T22:03:42+0000
Teslarati
2022-09-28T21:20:29+0000
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