Koreasat 5AFalcon 9 Block 4 SpaceX Launch Status Success Mon ยท Oct 30th, 2017 3:34 PM - 5:58 PM EDT Watch Online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUjH14vhLxA Mission Koreasat 5A Type: Communications Koreasat 5A is a telecommunitations satellite to provide internet access, fixed telecommunications, media and broadcasting services. Loaded with Ku-band transponders, this satellite will cover Korea, Japan, Indochina and Middle East. Location Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 182 launches have been at this location. Rocket Falcon 9 Block 4 Length: 71 meters Diameter: 3.65 meters First Launched: December 22, 2015 The Full Thrust variants first stage includes all systems necessary for an operational re-use of stages while the second stage is operated as an expendable rocket stage. The Falcon 9 Block 4 rocket has been launched a total of 12 times with 12 successful and 0 failed launches. Landing The first stage of the Falcon 9 landed on the ASDS, OCISLY, stationed of the east coast. Of Course I Still Love You – OCISLY The second ASDS barge, Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) services launches in the Atlantic Ocean and was the site of the first landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage during CRS-8, the launch of a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship – ASDS An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory. Agency SpaceX Type: Commercial Abbreviation: SpX Administration: CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Launchers: Falcon Spacecraft: Dragon Country: USA Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas. View Rocket Launch Schedule