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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - SLC-4E - Transporter 9 - Vandenberg Space Force Base - November 11, 2023

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Transporter-9 Mission

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SpaceX

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.

Transporter 9 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

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Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Dedicated Rideshare

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Space Launch Complex 4E Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
B1071 - Landing Zone 4

Transporter 9 mission is a dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Telemetry

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Updates

Nosu • Nov. 11, 2023, 8:20 p.m.

Launch success


Nosu • Nov. 11, 2023, 6:49 p.m.

Liftoff


Nosu • Nov. 9, 2023, 11:38 p.m.

Setting GO


Nosu • Nov. 8, 2023, 10:41 p.m.

Adding T-0


Cosmic_Penguin • Nov. 7, 2023, 4:14 a.m.

NET November 11 per marine navigation warnings.


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
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1071

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: February 2, 2022
Last Flight: July 11, 2026
Flights: 35
Landings Attempted: 35
Landings Successful: 35
Previous B1071 Flights

Landing Information

B1071 has landed back at the launch site after its twelfth flight.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 4.

SpaceX

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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