Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-61

Status

Success

Starlink Group 6-61

Launch Time
Wed Oct 23, 2024 21:47 UTC

SpaceX's 400th launch within its Falcon family, split between 5 Falcon 1, 11 Falcon Heavy, and 384 Falcon 9 launches.

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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

B1073

Flight #18

72 day turnaround

374th Falcon recovery attempt

360th successful Falcon recovery

16th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery

Manifest

Mission Details

Starlink Group 6-61

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

194th orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

401st mission

101st mission of 2024

394th successful mission

31st consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

385th mission

99th mission of 2024

381st successful mission

30th consecutive successful mission