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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.
Classified US Space Force carrying two payloads directly to geostationary orbit. One is called the Shepherd Demonstration, and the other is LDPE 2 spacecraft that carries three hosted payloads and three deployable sub-satellites. One of them is an experimental microsatellite called TETRA-1.
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 10
Consecutive Success 10
Maiden Flight 2018-02-06
Launch Failures 0
Serial B1066
Status expended
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 1
Landing Attempt No
Landing Success Unknown
Type EXP
Location ATL
Serial B1065
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 5
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-2
Serial B1064
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 5
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-1
Jay
2022-11-02T00:58:12+0000
Successful launch of Falcon Heavy for the United States Space Force.
Nosu
2022-11-01T13:41:24+0000
Liftoff
Nosu
2022-11-01T13:22:32+0000
Webcast live
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-10-30T13:39:22+0000
Refined launch window.
Jay
2022-10-29T13:20:33+0000
Weather 90%
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-10-28T01:02:59+0000
Go for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-10-27T23:07:47+0000
Slip by 1 day.
Nosu
2022-10-22T14:22:25+0000
Adding launch time
Nosu
2022-10-20T20:19:46+0000
Delayed to October 31, towards the late morning EDT.
SwGustav
2022-10-05T22:08:22+0000
NET October 28
Nosu
2022-09-02T17:27:40+0000
NET October 2022
Nosu
2022-03-25T22:06:41+0000
NET June
Nosu
2022-01-23T17:47:03+0000
NET March due to payload issues
Nosu
2021-10-04T18:10:45+0000
Delayed to early 2022 due to payload issues.
SwGustav
2021-09-07T19:40:46+0000
NET October 9th
2022-11-01T22:19:09+0000
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2022-11-01T20:53:09+0000
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2022-11-01T20:39:33+0000
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2022-11-01T15:14:04+0000
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2022-11-01T15:09:13+0000
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2022-11-01T02:34:25+0000
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2022-10-31T22:39:33+0000
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2022-10-31T21:39:10+0000
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2022-10-31T18:08:49+0000
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2022-10-28T14:39:21+0000
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2022-10-23T05:33:37+0000
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2022-10-07T11:00:23+0000
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2022-10-05T22:00:12+0000
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2021-11-03T09:19:23+0000
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2021-10-31T16:53:11+0000
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2021-10-08T11:00:23+0000
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2021-10-05T09:11:45+0000
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2021-10-04T18:11:16+0000
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2021-09-10T11:00:59+0000
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2021-09-09T09:06:36+0000
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2021-08-13T09:10:52+0000
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2021-05-28T11:00:45+0000
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2021-05-23T20:59:00+0000
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2021-05-23T17:48:33+0000
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2021-02-10T21:31:02+0000
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2021-02-01T10:05:49+0000
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2020-09-24T08:55:00+0000
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2020-09-09T08:55:00+0000
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2020-04-29T08:55:00+0000
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2020-04-27T16:21:00+0000
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2020-04-22T08:55:00+0000
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2020-04-21T22:17:01+0000
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