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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.

USSF-67

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Overview

Destination: Geostationary Orbit
Mission: Government/Top Secret

Geostationary Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Probability: 95%
B1070 - Atlantic Ocean B1065 - Landing Zone 1 B1064 - Landing Zone 2

USSF-67 is a mission for the United States Space Force with two satellites, including the LDPE-3A rapid prototype platform hosting 5 USSF payloads.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 16, 2023, 5:27 a.m.

Launch success.


SwGustav • Jan. 15, 2023, 10:56 p.m.

Liftoff


SwGustav • Jan. 15, 2023, 10:41 p.m.

Coverage live


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 14, 2023, 6:57 p.m.

One day slip


Nosu • Jan. 13, 2023, 6:55 p.m.

Updating launch window


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


B1070


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: January 15, 2023
Last Flight: January 15, 2023
Flights: 1

Landing Information

The center core was expended on this flight.

Core will be expended.

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 successfully landed back at the launch site after this flight.

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

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 successfully landed back at the launch site after this flight.

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

SpaceX

SpaceX

(SpX)

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

Agency Type:

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.

INFO WIKI
SpaceNews

Secretive military space agency stepping out of the shadows

When a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched a national security mission to geostationary Earth orbit Jan. 15, the Space Force revealed that three of the payloads onboard were developed by one of its most secretive agencies, the Space Rapid Capabil…

Teslarati

SpaceX’s latest Falcon Heavy launch captured from a rare perspective

NASA cameras installed on the International Space Station happened to be in the right place and at the right time to capture...

Teslarati

SpaceX follows up Falcon Heavy spectacle with sunrise Falcon 9 launch

SpaceX has followed up Falcon Heavy’s latest spectacle with a Falcon 9 launch shortly after sunrise, producing more ethereal views of the...

Spaceflight Now

Falcon Heavy hauls military satellites to high orbit after spectacular sunset launch

A U.S. military data relay satellite and a rideshare platform with its own suite of payloads rocketed into a sunset sky over Florida’s Space Coast Sunday on a Falcon Heavy launcher, putting on a dazzling show for local residents and visito…

Arstechnica

From start to finish, Sunday’s Falcon Heavy launch delivered spectacular imagery

You really shouldn't miss the images of the booster return.

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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