Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink V1 L27

Status

Success

Starlink V1 L27

Launch Time
Sun May 09, 2021 06:42 UTC

First time a Falcon 9 booster flew for a 10th time, successfully completing the goal to fly a booster 10 times without significant refurbishment. Additionally, this is the fastest turnaround of droneship JRTI to date, at 10 days and 3 hours, beating its previous record by over 2 days.

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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

B1051

Flight #10

56 day turnaround

94th Falcon recovery attempt

82nd successful Falcon recovery

9th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery

Manifest

Mission Details

Starlink V1 27

SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites for their high-speed low earth orbit internet constellation.

Payloads: 60

Total Mass: 15,600.0 kg

Low Earth Orbit

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Location

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

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Stats

2021

41st orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

126th mission

14th mission of 2021

120th successful mission

92nd consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

118th mission

14th mission of 2021

115th successful mission

89th consecutive successful mission