Falcon 9 Block 5

Status

Success

Hera

Launch Time
Mon Oct 07, 2024 14:52 UTC

While an investigation into an off-nominal stage 2 deorbit burn on the Crew-9 mission remained open, Falcon 9 was granted clearance to launch Hera due to the absence of a stage 2 re-entry in this mission profile.

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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

Expendable

B1061

Flight #23

57 day turnaround

Manifest

Mission Details

Hera

Hera is a space mission of the European Space Agency whose objective is to validate the kinetic impact method to deflect a possible asteroid circulating on a collision course with the Earth. The satellite will study the results obtained by the DART impactor developed by NASA which successfully crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid in September 2022.

Payloads: 1

Total Mass: 1,081.0 kg

Heliocentric Orbit

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Location

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

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Stats

2024

183rd orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

395th mission

95th mission of 2024

388th successful mission

25th consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

380th mission

94th mission of 2024

376th successful mission

25th consecutive successful mission