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Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

06:05:37

Thursday February 15, 2024

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Launch Notes

For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, LC-39A returns to supporting Lunar missions

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First of at least 3 robotic lunar landing missions by Intuitive Machine as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program. The Nova-C lunar lander, named "Odysseus", will fly 6 payloads for NASA and several others for commercial companies to near the Malapert A crater near the Moon's south pole.

Trans Lunar Injection

1 Payload

1,931 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Falcon 9 Block 5

Active Since 2018

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Agency

SpaceX

Price

$69.75 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.7m

Height: 70m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 22,800 kg

GTO: 8,300 kg

Liftoff Thrust

7,607 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.2m

Height: 13m

Stages

2

Launch Site

LC-39A

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

5 days 6 hours

Stats

Falcon 9


300th

Mission

14th

Mission of 2024

SpaceX


316th

Mission

14th

Mission of 2024

2024


30th

Orbital launch attempt