Echostar 23Falcon 9 Full Thrust SpaceX Launch Status Success Thu ยท Mar 16th, 2017 2:00 AM - 4:05 AM EDT Watch Online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM2Dp1Adlag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZmqbL-hz7U Mission Echostar 23 Type: Communications Echostar 23 is a geostationary communications satellite, which will provide direct-to-home television broadcast services over Brazil. Being a flexible Ku-band satellite, it is capable of providing service from any of eight different orbital slots. Location Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 182 launches have been at this location. Rocket Falcon 9 Full Thrust Length: 71 meters Diameter: 3.65 meters First Launched: December 22, 2015 The Full Thrust variants first stage includes all systems necessary for an operational re-use of stages while the second stage is operated as an expendable rocket stage. The Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket has been launched a total of 25 times with 24 successful and 1 failed launches. Landing – – Agency SpaceX Type: Commercial Abbreviation: SpX Administration: CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Launchers: Falcon 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 has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas. View Rocket Launch Schedule