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Starlink Group 4-14

Falcon 9 Block 5

SpaceX

Launch Status
Success

Mission

Starlink Group 4-14

Type: Communications
Launch Cost: $52,000,000

A batch of 53 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

Mission patch for Starlink Group 4-14

Location

Space Launch Complex 40

Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

906 rockets have launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA.

Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Core Landing

The Falcon 9 first stage has landed on ASDS JRTI.

Just Read the Instructions – JRTI

First (Marmac 300) and third (Marmac 303) ASDS barge, Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) is currently used to recover Falcon 9 and Heavy boosters in the Altantic Ocean.

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.

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Ken & Judy O
Ken & Judy O' Neill
1 year ago

Lets get those satellites up there folks .
Go SpaceX.

CSWHO
CSWHO
1 year ago

Will this launch take the ship south or north? This does affect those of us who do enjoy the launches but from a 50 mile distance north of the launch site.

Rocket Monkey
Rocket Monkey
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Reply to  CSWHO
1 year ago

It looks like a northeastern launch trajectory for today’s launch.

Karen Ramsey
Karen Ramsey
1 year ago

Anyone know the trajectory for todays flight ?

Rocket Monkey
Rocket Monkey
Admin
Reply to  Karen Ramsey
1 year ago

It looks like a northeastern launch trajectory for today’s launch.

CSWHO
CSWHO
Reply to  Karen Ramsey
1 year ago

Thank you. Is there any way that this information could be posted for EVERY launch?

Rocket Monkey
Rocket Monkey
Admin
Reply to  CSWHO
1 year ago

If the data is available it is displayed. For some reason, flightclub.io didn’t have the data for this launch.

Ken & Judy O
Ken & Judy O' Neill
1 year ago

Great launch like a “clockwork orange”.
12th usage of this booster and 115 recoveries overall what a record SpaceX.!
Keep on keeping on folks .