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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 22 satellites for the 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 315
Consecutive Success 18
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Serial B1080
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 10
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type ASDS
Location JRTI
SwGustav
2023-08-27T02:15:29+0000
Successful deployment of 22 Starlink satellites
SwGustav
2023-08-27T01:13:13+0000
Liftoff
LL2
2023-08-27T00:58:58+0000
Livestream has started
Nosu
2023-08-26T07:49:13+0000
Adding seconds to T-0
Nosu
2023-08-25T19:11:12+0000
Setting GO and updating launch window to match available opportunities.
Nosu
2023-08-25T19:10:15+0000
Adding T-0
Nosu
2023-08-25T12:38:57+0000
Delayed by a day due to the Crew-7 delay per the latest NGA notice
hitura-nobad
2023-08-24T17:08:37+0000
Setting GO
Nosu
2023-08-24T07:00:32+0000
Updating T-0 and launch window to match backup opportunities.
hitura-nobad
2023-08-23T17:08:21+0000
launched delayed to August 26th UTC, weather 90% GO
Nosu
2023-08-23T13:46:48+0000
Weather 80%
Nosu
2023-08-23T07:02:19+0000
Updating window and T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-08-22T21:07:05+0000
Delayed by 1 day per marine navigation warnings.
Nosu
2023-08-22T13:16:13+0000
Weather 85%
Nosu
2023-08-17T20:45:01+0000
Updating approximate T-0 per latest NGA notice
Nosu
2023-08-17T15:21:26+0000
Targeting August 23 between 00:00 and 05:00 UTC (8pm-1am EDT).
Nosu
2023-08-17T06:11:51+0000
Targeting August 21 per NOTAM F2710/23
Nosu
2023-05-22T08:28:19+0000
Adding launch
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by American aerospace company SpaceX
2023-08-28T01:26:44+0000
Teslarati
2023-08-21T18:01:33+0000
NASASpaceflight
2023-08-16T19:34:40+0000
NASASpaceflight