NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Hispasat 30W-6

Launch Time
Tue Mar 06, 2018 05:33 UTC

The 50th launch of the Falcon 9.

Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 4
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

B1044

Flight #1

Mission Details

Hispasat 30W-6

Hispasat 30W-6 (formerly Hispasat 1F) is a Spanish communications satellite by Hispasat that launched on a Falcon 9 on March 6, 2018. It is replacing Hispasat 1D at 30° West longitude and will provide service for television, broadband, corporate networks and other telecommunications applications. The satellite features 4 × SPT-100 plasma propulsion engines.

This mission also carried a small (90 kg) technology demonstration satellite called Payload Orbital Delivery System Satellite (PODSat), which was deployed from its mothership when still in a sub-geostationary transfer orbit.

Payloads: 2
Total Mass: 6,092.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

2018

23rd orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

57th mission
5th mission of 2018
51st successful mission
23rd consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

51st mission
4th mission of 2018
48th successful mission
22nd consecutive successful mission