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Watch live: SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches secretive X-37B military spaceplane

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the U.S. military's secretive X-37B spaceplane. Liftoff from historic launch pad 39A at...

SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy for the USSF-52 / X-37B Spaceplane

SpaceX's fifth Falcon Heavy of the year is set to liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center carrying the US Space Force X-37B spaceplane. Falcon Heavy - USSF-52 (OTV-7) Window ...

USSF-52 Mission

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OTV-7 (X-37B) (USSF-52)

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Overview

Destination: Elliptical Orbit
Mission: Government/Top Secret

Elliptical Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1064 - Landing Zone 1 B1065 - Landing Zone 2 B1084 - Atlantic Ocean

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.

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Updates

Nosu • March 25, 2022, 10:10 p.m.

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Nosu • April 10, 2023, 3:53 p.m.

Targeting June 23


Nosu • May 5, 2023, 7:33 p.m.

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NET September 2023.


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Falcon Heavy

Family:
Configuration: Heavy

The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    12.2 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    1400.0 T
  • Thrust
    22819.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon Heavy
  • Family
  • Variant
    Heavy
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon Heavy
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $90000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    63800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    26700.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1064

Status: Expended


Type: Strap-On Booster
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 1, 2022
Last Flight: October 14, 2024
Flights: 6
Landings Attempted: 5
Landings Successful: 5
Previous B1064 Flights

Landing Information

B1064 has landed back at the launch site after its fifth flight.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 1.

B1065

Status: Expended


Type: Strap-On Booster
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 1, 2022
Last Flight: October 14, 2024
Flights: 6
Landings Attempted: 5
Landings Successful: 5
Previous B1065 Flights

Landing Information

B1065 has landed back at the launch site after its fifth flight.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 2.

B1084


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: December 29, 2023
Last Flight: December 29, 2023
Flights: 1

Landing Information

B1084 was expended after its first flight.

Core will be expended.

X-37B 2


Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 227 kg
Destination: Elliptical Earth Orbit
Serial Number: 2

Second X-37B. First flight on March 5, 2011.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 645 Failures: 15 Pending: 122

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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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