Falcon 9 Block 5 | Türksat 5B

Status

Success

Türksat 5B

Launch Time
Sun Dec 19, 2021 03:58 UTC

Launched only 15 hours after Starlink Group 4-4 from California, marking the first time SpaceX launched twice within 24 hours.

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Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5

Image Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX

Status: Active

Price: $69.75 million

Liftoff Thrust: 7,607 kN

Payload to LEO: 22,800 kg

Payload to GTO: 8,300 kg

Stages: 2

Strap-ons: 0

Rocket Height: 70.0 m

Fairing Diameter: 5.2 m

Fairing Height: 13.0 m

Details

Vehicles

A Shortfall of Gravitas

B1067

Flight #3

38 day turnaround

115th Falcon recovery attempt

103rd successful Falcon recovery

25th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery

Manifest

Mission Details

Türksat 5B

Türksat 5B is a telecommunications satellite operated by the state-owned Türksat A.Ş.

Türksat 5B is built on the all-electric Eurostar-3000EOR bus and will weigh about 4500 kg at launch. It provides 12 kilowatts of power at the end of its life and features an all Ku-band payload

Payloads: 1

Total Mass: 4,500.0 kg

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

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Location

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

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Stats

2021

134th orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

142nd mission

30th mission of 2021

136th successful mission

108th consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

134th mission

30th mission of 2021

131st successful mission

105th consecutive successful mission