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Türksat 6A

Falcon 9 Block 5

SpaceX

Launch Status
Success

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Weather Forecast During Launch

According to weather officials, there's a 30% chance of favorable weather conditions at the time of the launch. Officials are monitoring weather conditions with concerns related to Cumulus Cloud Rule, Anvil Cloud Rules, Surface Electric Fields Rule. The forecast calls for a temperature of 84°F, light rain, 18% cloud cover, a wind speed of 11mph and 0.17in of rain.

Trajectory

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Rocket Launch Timeline

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T- 00 : 38 : 00 GO for Prop Load
Launch director verifies go for propellant load
T- 00 : 35 : 00 Prop Load
Start of propelland loading
T- 00 : 35 : 00 Stage 1 LOX Load
Start of liquid oxygen loading in the first stage
T- 00 : 16 : 00 Stage 2 LOX Load
Start of liquid oxygen loading in the second stage
T- 00 : 07 : 00 Engine Chill
Start of engine chilling
T- 00 : 01 : 00 Tank Press
Fuel tanks are pressurized to flight levels
T- 00 : 01 : 00 Startup
The onboard computer takes control over the countdown and runs last checks
T- 00 : 00 : 45 GO for Launch
Launch director verifies go for launch
T- 00 : 00 : 03 Ignition
Start of the engine ignition sequence
T+ 00 : 00 : 00 Liftoff
First upwards movement of the rocket
T+ 00 : 01 : 14 Max-Q
Maximum dynamic pressure
T+ 00 : 02 : 32 MECO
Cut-off of the main engine
T+ 00 : 02 : 35 Stage 2 Separation
Separation of the second stage from the first
T+ 00 : 02 : 43 SES-1
First start of the second engine
T+ 00 : 03 : 15 Fairing Separation
Separation of the payload fairing
T+ 00 : 06 : 16 Entry Burn Startup
Start of the atmospheric entry burn
T+ 00 : 06 : 40 Entry Burn Shutdown
End of the atmospheric entry burn
T+ 00 : 08 : 07 SECO-1
First cut-off of the second engine
T+ 00 : 08 : 10 Stage 1 Landing Burn
Start of the first stage landing burn
T+ 00 : 08 : 36 Stage 1 Landing
Landing of the first stage
T+ 00 : 27 : 17 SES-2
Second start of the second engine
T+ 00 : 28 : 20 SECO-2
Second cut-off of the second engine
T+ 00 : 35 : 31 Payload Separation
Final deployment of the payload from the rocket

Mission

Türksat 6A

  • Type: Communications
  • Orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Launch Cost: $52,000,000

Türksat 6A is Turkey's first domestically manufactured geostationary communications satellite. It is to reside in 42° East orbital slot, providing services to customers in Turkey, as well as in Europe, Northern coast of Africa, Middle East, India and Indonesia.

Location

Space Launch Complex 40

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Find the best place to watch the launch from Florida

Space Launch Complex 40 has witnessed the launch of 291 rockets, including 291 orbital launch attempts. While Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA, has been the site for 1006 rocket launches.

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.

Rocket

SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5

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.

Learn more about the Falcon 9 Block 5

Landing

Core B1076

The Falcon 9 first stage B1076 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 15th flight. Booster B1076 last launched 02/21/2025 and has seen 21 successful launches and landings. Booster first launched the CRS-26 mission.

Just Read the Instructions - JRTI

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

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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Linda
Linda
10 months ago

Will there be a Sonic boom? How do I learn when there will be Sonic booms and when there will not be? So excited about this launch as I am with every launch! Love my Monkey! I wish I could make my monkey automatically open after every restart of my… Read more »

Brandon launer
Brandon launer
Reply to  Linda
10 months ago

No sonic boom, look at where they land if it’s on the drone ships no sonic boom, if they are landing back at the LZ1-LZ2 then you will hear sonic booms

Ken & Judy O
Ken & Judy O' Neill
10 months ago

Go SpaceX……

Edward
Edward
10 months ago

where is the best location to view the launch?

Ken & Judy O
Ken & Judy O' Neill
10 months ago

Great work again folks.