Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-62
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.
USSF-62
First Weather System Follow-on (WSF) satellite. WSF-M (Weather System Follow-on - Microwave) is the next-generation operational environmental satellite system for the Department of Defense (DoD), to replace the microwave wavelength weather forecasting capabilities of the DMSP satellites. Ball Aerospace has been selected in late November 2017 to be the prime contractor for 2 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) weather satellites with a passive microwave imaging radiometer instrument and hosted Government furnished energetic charged particle (ECP) sensor space weather payload developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The radiometer leverages the Ball-built Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) instrument. This mission will improve weather forecasting over maritime regions by taking global measurements of the atmosphere and ocean surface.
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 342
Consecutive Success 45
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Core
Serial B1082
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 8
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-4
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-12T02:45:08+0000
Satellite confirmed in operation.
Nosu
2024-04-11T15:20:59+0000
Payload deployed
Nosu
2024-04-11T14:25:44+0000
Liftoff
LL2
2024-04-11T14:04:56+0000
Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
Nosu
2024-04-11T13:56:36+0000
Weather 95%
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-11T00:49:07+0000
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-07T22:55:08+0000
NET April 11.
Nosu
2024-03-19T14:49:39+0000
Delayed to April
Nosu
2022-05-27T10:19:00+0000
Adding launch
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