Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-45

Status

Success

Starlink Group 6-45

Launch Time
Sun Mar 31, 2024 01:30 UTC

Fastest droneship turnaround to date, at 5 days and 2 hours, beating the previous record by around 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

A Shortfall of Gravitas

B1067

Flight #18

39 day turnaround

301st Falcon recovery attempt

288th successful Falcon recovery

35th consecutive successful Falcon recovery

216th consecutive successful Falcon landing

Manifest

Mission Details

Starlink Group 6-45

SpaceX launch of a batch of Starlink v2-mini satellites for their second generation high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation.

Payloads: 23

Low Earth Orbit

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Location

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

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Stats

2024

61st orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

331st mission

31st mission of 2024

325th successful mission

297th consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

317th mission

31st mission of 2024

314th successful mission

288th consecutive successful mission