Falcon 9 Block 5 | SES-18 & SES-19

Status

Success

SES-18 & SES-19

Launch Time
Fri Mar 17, 2023 23:38 UTC

Launched 4 hours and 12 minutes after Starlink Group 2-8 from California, marking SpaceX's shortest period between two launches as of liftoff, and passing the previous record by 3 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

Just Read the Instructions

B1069

Flight #6

44 day turnaround

196th Falcon recovery attempt

184th successful Falcon recovery

106th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery

Manifest

Mission Details

SES-18 & SES-19

These satellites enable SES to clear 280MHz of mid-band spectrum for 5G use while seamlessly migrating SES’s existing C-band customers and ensuring the continued delivery of digital television to nearly 120 million American TV homes and other critical data services. The dry mass of SES-18 is 1139kg, and the dry mass of SES-19 is 1280kg.

Payloads: 2

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Wiki

Stats

2023

42nd orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

223rd mission

19th mission of 2023

217th successful mission

189th consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

213th mission

18th mission of 2023

210th successful mission

184th consecutive successful mission