Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dror-1
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Launch Window
July 13, 2025, 5:04 a.m. - July 13, 2025, 8:34 a.m.
July 13, 2025, 5:04 a.m. - July 13, 2025, 8:34 a.m.
Note: SpaceX identifies the mission as "Commercial GTO 1". Dror-1 is a geostationary communication satellite built and developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). It is intended to meet the satellite communication needs of Israel for the next 15 years. Dror-1 is comprised primarily of local Israeli technologies developed at IAI, including an advanced digital communication payload and “smartphone in space” capabilities, to provide communication agility throughout the satellite’s lifetime in space.
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Added launch; payload identity to be confirmed.
Weather is 80% favorable for launch.
GO for launch.
Liftoff.
Launch success.
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.
See DetailsThe Falcon 9 1st stage booster B1083 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 13th flight.
Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at Just Read the Instructions.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.
INFO WIKI
SpaceX disclosed neither the payload nor the customer for this mission launching from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for 1:04 a.m. EDT (0504 UTC), the opening of a 3.5-hour window.
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Note: SpaceX identifies the mission as "Commercial GTO 1". Dror-1 is a geostationary communication satellite built and developed by Israel Aerospa…
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