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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-13 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - October 30, 2024

Launch Date: October 30, 2024 Launch Time: 5:10 p.m. EDT, 2110 UTC, 22:10 CEST Launch Window: up til 9:10 p.m. EDT Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA Targeted Orb...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with another batch of 23 satellites for the company’s Starlink internet service. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is s...

🔴 FULL REPLAY: SpaceX Launches Starlink 10-13

SpaceX launch of a batch of Starlink v2-mini satellites for their second generation high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation. Window Opens: October 30th at 5:10PM EDT (21:10 UTC) W...

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Starlink Group 10-13

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 75%
B1078 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Nosu • Oct. 29, 2024, 7:24 a.m.

Updating launch window to match launch opportunities



Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 30, 2024, 2:25 p.m.

GO for launch.


LL2 • Oct. 30, 2024, 9:02 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


hitura-nobad • Oct. 30, 2024, 9:10 p.m.

Liftoff!


Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

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.

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Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
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  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Booster Info


B1078

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: March 2, 2023
Last Flight: June 13, 2025
Flights: 21
Landings Attempted: 21
Landings Successful: 21
Previous B1078 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1078 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 14th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at A Shortfall of Gravitas.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 525 Failures: 15 Pending: 119

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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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