Days
Hours
Mins
Secs
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 23 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 306
Consecutive Success 9
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Serial B1067
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 21
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type ASDS
Location ASOG
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-22T08:54:19+0000
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-22T07:48:15+0000
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-22T07:07:02+0000
New T-0.
LL2
2023-11-22T06:27:21+0000
Livestream has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-22T05:01:54+0000
New T-0.
Nosu
2023-11-21T23:54:43+0000
Updating T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-21T21:10:15+0000
Tweaked T-0.
Nosu
2023-11-20T21:08:40+0000
Setting GO
Nosu
2023-11-20T14:45:56+0000
Weather 90%, trending towards 75% at the end of the window
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-17T10:59:19+0000
NET November 22 per NOTAM F3862/23.
Nosu
2023-11-16T15:27:59+0000
Adding approximate launch window
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-14T18:21:11+0000
Targeting early November 21 UTC per NOTAM A4139/23.
Nosu
2023-07-28T07:07:25+0000
Adding launch
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by American aerospace company SpaceX