Starlink Group 4-11
Falcon 9 Block 5
SpaceX
Mission
Starlink Group 4-11
Type: Communications
Launch Cost: $52,000,000
A batch of 50 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation – SpaceX’s project for space-based Internet communication system.
Trajectory
View the rocket launch trajectory, velocity, altitude, thrust and much more at FlightClub.io
Location
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
720 rockets have launched from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.
Rocket
Falcon 9 Block 5 – SpaceX
- Family: Falcon
- Length: 70 m
- Diameter: 3.65 m
- Launch Mass: 549 T
- Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 22800 kg
The Falcon 9 Block 5 was manufactured by SpaceX with the first launch on 2018-05-11. Falcon 9 Block 5 has 173 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 173 launches. Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.
Core Landing
B1063 successfully landed on Of Course I Still Love You
Of Course I Still Love You – OCISLY
The second ASDS barge, Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) services launches in the Pacific 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 – SpX
- Type: Commercial
- Abbreviation: SpX
- Administration: CEO: Elon Musk
- Founded: 2002
- Launchers: Falcon | Starship
- 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 operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Drone landing or base landing?
Drone ship Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)
? not sure at this stage maybe “Rocket Monkey” may know.?
Looking at the trajectory via the link under the mission section, it looks like a drone landing. The info will be posted to this page when it is available.
According to a friend of mine who works inside Vandenberg, it is going to be a drone landing.
to space, for earth.
Yes, How do we learn if the booster will land on the drone-ship, or back at the base?
The information will be posted here when it is available.
Yes.That is correct.We’ll know more when they post it to this page.
EX citing Launch date. I wonder what kind of popcorn EM likes
I can usually see the rocket on the launch pad by now. Do you think the date will be moved?
It’s launching for California
Which direction (N/S/E/W) will the Falcon be heading right after liftoff?
Click on the link under the mission section to see the trajectory. it will be heading south.
Very helpful! Thanks.
For that data, click Launches in the top nav, then select Next Launch.
Opening window is at 8:38 am tomorrow.
This is great information… Thank You! I will join! How can we find out where the drone ship was located for the touchdown. An earlier mission had the drone ship off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico. For this mission, after separation, from the booster camera we could see the channel… Read more »
Click on the link under the mission section on this page.
Great launch as normal and video footage . The Drone landing at sea perfect yet again.
Go SpaceX.