Starlink Group 4-8
Falcon 9 Block 5
SpaceX
Mission
Starlink Group 4-8
Type: Communications
Launch Cost: $52,000,000
A batch of 46 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation – SpaceX’s project for space-based Internet communication system.
Trajectory
The trajectory is unavailable. Check back for updates.
Location
Space Launch Complex 40
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
888 rockets have launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, 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 171 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 171 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
B1058 successfully landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas after its 11th flight.
A Shortfall of Gravitas – ASOG
The fourth ASDS barge, A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) 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.
Good luck SpaceX with the progress of Starlink and the future of communications .
The time keep changing isn’t it?
Hi Danny,
14 hours to launch from posting this unless something comes up at the Cape?.
Hi Danny,
launch status (14 hours) from the posting of this statement ,(weather very favourable) unless something happens at the Cape.? Keep posted matey.
The rocket launched.I hope it’s successful. I would like for them all to be successful.
When i was ten buck rogers. know i step out the door and live it. Amazing
Lovely launch and coverage of the whole thing happening another winner folks for SpaceX and us all who are lucky to see it .