Türksat 5B
Falcon 9 Block 5
SpaceX
Weather Forecast During Launch
According to weather officials, there’s a 80% chance of favorable weather conditions at the time of the launch.
Mission
Location
Rocket
Landing
Core B1067
Booster B1067 last launched 09/17/2024 and has seen 22 successful launches and landings. Falcon 9 Block 5 booster first used for the CRS-22 mission.
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
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.
Turksat 5B is in safe hands with SpaceX.
Keep them coming folks .
I am hoping that every rocket launch that China and Russia attemp to send up into outer space fails. Because as we all know their intention is to overtake the U.S. And with dementia joe Biden in the White House as a puppet they are walking all over us. They… Read more »
Nominal launch 99th first stage touchdown for SpaceX . Are you folks good , for sure.!