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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.
It is the seventh flight of the X-37B program. United States Air Force Orbital Test Vehicle is built by Boeing. It's an uncrewed 5000 kg, 8.8 m-long reusable mini-spaceplane capable of autonomous re-entry and landing.
Height 70.00 Meters
Max Stages 3
Mass To GTO 26700 kg
Liftoff Thrust 22819 kN
Diameter 12.20 Meters
Mass To LEO 63800 kg
Liftoff Mass 1400 Tonnes
Launch Success 11
Consecutive Success 11
Maiden Flight 2018-02-06
Launch Failures 0
Serial B1084
Status expended
Flight Proven No
Flights 1
Landing Attempt No
Landing Success Unknown
Type EXP
Location ATL
Serial B1064
Status expended
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 6
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-1
Serial B1065
Status expended
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 6
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-2
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-29T13:33:20+0000
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-29T01:07:17+0000
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-29T00:14:04+0000
Weather now 90% GO.
LL2
2023-12-28T23:32:12+0000
Livestream has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-27T18:13:43+0000
Weather 80% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-27T03:17:56+0000
Refined launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-23T04:03:08+0000
Updated target T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-16T01:44:06+0000
Rescheduled for December 29 UTC.
Jay
2023-12-13T03:31:08+0000
Launch delayed indefinitely pending system checkouts and range availability.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-13T00:36:13+0000
Updated weather forecast.
Nosu
2023-12-12T17:15:32+0000
Delayed by a day to December 14 UTC, weather 40%
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-12T06:34:17+0000
New weather forecast.
Jay
2023-12-12T00:48:32+0000
24 hour delay due to ground issue.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-12T00:30:17+0000
Weather 85% GO.
SwGustav
2023-12-12T00:26:53+0000
Adjusting T-0
LL2
2023-12-11T23:47:15+0000
Livestream has started
Nosu
2023-12-10T17:28:03+0000
Weather 75%
Nosu
2023-12-10T13:53:40+0000
Delayed by a day
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-09T16:51:33+0000
Weather 40% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-07T17:51:23+0000
Added launch window.
Nosu
2023-12-07T13:58:17+0000
Updating launch window
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-06T13:51:03+0000
Added launch window.
Nosu
2023-11-29T21:43:34+0000
Targeting December 10
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-25T15:03:19+0000
No longer scheduled on December 7.
Nosu
2023-11-08T22:20:06+0000
Targeting December 7
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-01T16:47:01+0000
NET December 2023.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-07-03T00:53:00+0000
NET Q4 2023.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-06-23T04:43:48+0000
NET September 2023.
Nosu
2023-05-05T19:33:21+0000
NET July 7
Nosu
2023-04-10T15:53:11+0000
Targeting June 23
Nosu
2022-03-25T22:10:56+0000
NET October 2022
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SpaceX will static fire Falcon Heavy before the launch of the seventh X-37B mission.
2024-10-11T01:05:56+0000
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