Falcon 9 Block 5 | SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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SpaceX
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.
SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Satellite altimeter jointly developed by NASA and CNES, the French space agency, in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and UK Space Agency (UKSA) designed to make the first global survey of the Earth's surface water, to observe the fine details of the ocean surface topography, and to measure how terrestrial surface water bodies change over time.
Falcon 9 Block 5
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
Core
Serial B1071
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 20
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-4
Updates
SwGustav
2022-12-16T13:16:13+0000
Good deployment and AOS confirmed, successful launch
SwGustav
2022-12-16T11:47:26+0000
Liftoff
SwGustav
2022-12-16T11:02:16+0000
Coverage live
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-15T03:11:56+0000
NET December 16
Nosu
2022-12-14T20:49:26+0000
Weather 100%
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-11-30T15:14:48+0000
Launch date confirmed.
SwGustav
2022-11-08T20:14:21+0000
NET Dec 12
Nosu
2022-10-14T08:03:31+0000
Adding approximate launch time
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-08-25T14:29:39+0000
New launch date
Nosu
2022-03-25T22:16:22+0000
NET November 15
Related Events
NASA SWOT Pre-Launch News Conference
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NASA will hold a news conference ahead of the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, built in cooperation with the french space agency CNES.
NASA SWOT Science Briefing
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NASA will hold a science briefing ahead of the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, built in cooperation with the french space agency CNES.
NASA SWOT Pre-Launch Briefing
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NASA will hold a media briefing ahead of the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, built in cooperation with the french space agency CNES.
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