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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-11 - LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - January 8, 2025

Launch Date: January 8, 2025 Launch Time: 10:27 a.m. ET, 1527 UTC, 16:27 CET Launch Window: up til 2:17 p.m. ET Launch Site: LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center, Florida Targeted Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center with 21 Starlink satellites

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 21 satellites for Elon Musk's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 1...

🚀SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starlink 12-11

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

Starlink Group 12-11

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
B1086 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 8, 2025, 4:39 p.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 8, 2025, 3:27 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Jan. 8, 2025, 3:17 p.m.

Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 8, 2025, 3:59 a.m.

GO for launch.


Nosu • Jan. 7, 2025, 5:12 p.m.

Updating window to match launch opportunities


Falcon 9

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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
  • 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

Booster Info


B1086

Status: Lost


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: June 25, 2024
Last Flight: March 3, 2025
Flights: 5
Landings Attempted: 5
Landings Successful: 5
Previous B1086 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1086 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 3rd launch.

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

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 533 Failures: 15 Pending: 121

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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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