Status
Success
Intelsat 40e/TEMPO
Launch Time
Fri Apr 07, 2023 04:30 UTC
Fri Apr 07, 2023 04:30 UTC
Rocket
SpaceX
Status: Active
Price: $67.0 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
Vehicles
B1076
Flight #4
A Shortfall of Gravitas
38 day turnaround
195th Falcon recovery attempt
183rd successful Falcon recovery attempt
110th consecutive successful Falcon recovery
Mission Details
Intelsat 40e/TEMPO
Intelsat 40e is an advanced geostationary satellite that will provide Intelsat’s government and enterprise customers across North and Central America with high-throughput, “coast-to-coast” services. The satellite’s capabilities will support the growing number of customers that depend on Intelsat’s managed services and solutions to easily integrate satellite into their overall networking and communications strategies.
Hosted on the Intelsat 40e satellite is NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO), an Earth science instrument that will observe air pollution over North America in unprecedented detail.
Payloads: 1
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Location
SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
2023
56th orbital launch attempt
SpaceX
227th mission
23rd mission of 2023
221st successful mission
193rd consecutive successful mission
Falcon 9
217th mission
22nd mission of 2023
214th successful mission
188th consecutive successful mission