NEXT SPACEFLIGHT
NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

SAOCOM 1B & Rideshares

Launch Time
Sun Aug 30, 2020 23:18 UTC

The first launch from Florida using the southern polar corridor to reach orbit since the 1960s.

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

Landing Zone 1

B1059

Flight #4
79 day turnaround
69th Falcon recovery attempt
58th successful Falcon recovery
9th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery
Manifest

Mission Details

SAOCOM 1B

SAOCOM 1B is equipped with an L-band (about 1.275 GHz) full polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The primary purpose is to mitigate the effects of natural disasters.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 3,050.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Wiki

GNOMES 1

GNOMES 1 (GNSS Navigation and Occultation Measurement Satellites) is a satellite designed to detect radio occultation from navigation satellites and use that data for weather forecasting and Earth sciences. The final GNOMES constellation will consist of 20 satellites.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 30.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Tyvak-0172

EG (EchoStar Global) is a S-band IoT (Internet-of-Things) constellation by EchoStar Global LLC, an Australian subsidiary of EchoStar.

Payloads: 1
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Wiki

Stats

2020

65th orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

101st mission
15th mission of 2020
95th successful mission
67th consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

93rd mission
15th mission of 2020
90th successful mission
64th consecutive successful mission