NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Echostar 23

Launch Time
Thu Mar 16, 2017 06:00 UTC

Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 3 (v1.2/FT)
Image Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX
Status: Retired
Price: $62.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 6,804 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

Vehicles

Expendable

B1030

Flight #1

Mission Details

Echostar 23

A large communications satellite to provide direct-to-home television broadcast services over Brazil. Based on a spare platform from the cancelled CMBStar program.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 5,600.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Stats

2017

15th orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

37th mission
3rd mission of 2017
31st successful mission
3rd consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

32nd mission
3rd mission of 2017
29th successful mission
3rd consecutive successful mission