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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - SPAINSAT New Generation 1 - LC-39A - KSC - January 29, 2025

Launch Date: January 29, 2025 (ET) Launch Time: 8:34 p.m. ET - January 30, 0134 UTC, 02:34 CET Launch Window: January 29 until 10:34 p.m. ET Launch Site: LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center Targeted Orbit...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch SpainSat NG-1 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with the SpainSat New Generation 1 (SNG 1) satellite on behalf of Spanish secure communications satellite company, Hispasat. Liftoff from Launc...

🚀SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches SPAINSAT New Generation I

SPAINSAT NG is Hisdesat's largest project since its foundation. Its technological complexity and strategic relevance will position the company as an international benchmark in satellite communications...

Hisdesat SpainSat NG I Mission

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SpainSat NG I

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Overview

Destination: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Mission: Communications

Geostationary Transfer Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Probability: 95%
B1073 - Atlantic Ocean

First of two new-generation satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications to the Spanish government, its allies, and various international organizations.

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Updates


SwGustav • Jan. 30, 2025, 2:14 a.m.

Liftoff, S1 sep, fairing sep, SECO-1, SEI-2, SECO-2, payload deploy


LL2 • Jan. 30, 2025, 1:15 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 29, 2025, 12:03 a.m.

GO for launch.



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
  • Stages
    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
    ―
  • 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
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    ―

Booster Info


B1073

Status: Expended


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: May 14, 2022
Last Flight: January 30, 2025
Flights: 21
Landings Attempted: 20
Landings Successful: 20
Previous B1073 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 booster B1073 was expended during this mission.

Core will be expended.

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 714 Failures: 15 Pending: 129

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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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Arstechnica

Rocket Report: SpaceX tosses away a Falcon 9; a Somalian spaceport?

"It was the perfect partnership and the biggest softball of all the opportunities."

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch SpainSat New Generation 1 satellite on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center

The SNG 1 satellite is designed to provide protected communications capabilities to Spain and its allies during its 15-year operating life. Liftoff from pad 39A is set for 8:34 p.m. EST (0134 UTC), the opening of a two-hour window.

ESA

ESA and Hisdesat set to launch next-generation secure communications satellite

Hisdesat, Spain's premier provider of secure satellite communications, is set to launch its SpainSat Next Generation I (SNG I) satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on 29 January from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 20:34 EST (30 January at…

NASASpaceflight

Launch Roundup: New Shepard to simulate lunar gravity, India and Japan to launch navigation satellites.

This week’s schedule has a mix of orbital and suborbital missions launching from seven different… The post Launch Roundup: New Shepard to simulate lunar gravity, India and Japan to launch navigation satellites. appeared first on NASASpace…

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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