Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-5

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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-5 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - December 8, 2024

Launch Date: December 8, 2024 Launch Time: 12:12 a.m. ET, 0512 UTC, 06:12 CET Launch Window: up til 4:10 a.m. Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA Targeted Orbit: ...

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 99%
B1086 - 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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Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 8, 2024, 6:36 a.m.

Launch success.

Link https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1865643090960339263
LL2 • Dec. 8, 2024, 5:13 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started

Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6U-S04dnL0
Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 8, 2024, 5:13 a.m.

Liftoff.

Link https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlyvypNMJL
LL2 • Dec. 8, 2024, 5:02 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started

Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6U-S04dnL0
Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 7, 2024, 4:41 p.m.

Tweaked launch window.

Link https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/supplemental/
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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
  • 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
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  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
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  • 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

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 1st stage B1086 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 2nd flight.

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

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 729 Failures: 15 Pending: 135

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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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