Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 8-1

Status

Success

Starlink Group 8-1

Launch Time
Sun Apr 07, 2024 02:25 UTC

Fastest droneship turnaround to date, at 4 days, 23 hours, and 55 minutes, beating the record set the previous week by around 2 hours. First droneship turnaround in under 5 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

Of Course I Still Love You

B1081

Flight #6

33 day turnaround

309th Falcon recovery attempt

296th successful Falcon recovery

38th consecutive successful Falcon recovery

219th consecutive successful Falcon landing

Manifest

Mission Details

Starlink Group 8-1

SpaceX launch of a batch of Starlink v2-mini satellites for their second generation high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation. Includes a mix of 6 Direct to Cell and 15 normal v2-mini satellites.

Payloads: 21

Low Earth Orbit

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Location

SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA

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Stats

2024

66th orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

334th mission

34th mission of 2024

328th successful mission

300th consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

320th mission

34th mission of 2024

317th successful mission

291st consecutive successful mission