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NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Spaceflight SSO-A

Launch Time
Mon Dec 03, 2018 18:34 UTC

B1046 became the first Falcon 9 first stage to fly three times. The boat Mr. Steven was not successful during an experimental fairing recovery attempt.

Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5
Image Credit: SpaceX
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
Details

Vehicles

Just Read the Instructions

B1046

Flight #3
119 day turnaround
38th Falcon recovery attempt
32nd successful Falcon recovery
9th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery
Manifest

Mission Details

Spaceflight SSO-A

64 small satellites launched on Spaceflight Industries custom payload dispenser. The two upper portions of the stack will separate from the top of the Falcon 9's second stage before they begin deploying payloads. The bottom of the stack will remain attached to the second stage as it deploys its payloads.

Payloads: 64
Total Mass: 3,000.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA

Wiki

Stats

2018

101st orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

71st mission
19th mission of 2018
65th successful mission
37th consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

65th mission
18th mission of 2018
62nd successful mission
36th consecutive successful mission