Go4Liftoff - Falcon 9 Block 5

Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV08

Space Launch Complex 40

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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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.

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GPS III SV08

Eighth of ten GPS III missions.

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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 413

Consecutive Success 116

Maiden Flight 2018-05-11

Launch Failures 1

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Cosmic_Penguin

2025-04-11T03:15:00+0000

Changed launch pad.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2025-04-07T17:49:00+0000

NET May and change in launch service provider/rocket.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2024-05-15T18:35:41+0000

NET January 2025.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2024-02-13T11:33:48+0000

Planned within the 2024 NSSL mission manifest.

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Nosu

2022-05-27T10:18:16+0000

Adding launch

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.

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