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Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 1 & 2

O3b mPower Patch

SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

SpaceX's 210th launch · 58th this year · humanity's 6,362nd orbital launch attempt

December 16, 2022Add to calendar
Success95% go

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Window: Dec 16, 21:21Dec 16, 22:48 UTC

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O3b mPower 1 & 2

First and second of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.

Communications · Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)

Booster

  • B1067 · flight 8 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ A Shortfall of Gravitas · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hotbird 13G · zone record 161/162

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Updates

  • Successful deployment and AOS confirmed

    SwGustav · 12/17/2022 · source

  • Liftoff

    Jay · 12/16/2022

  • Webcast live

    Jay · 12/16/2022 · source

  • Updating T-0

    Nosu · 12/16/2022 · source

  • Updating T-0

    Nosu · 12/16/2022 · source

  • Updated launch window and set GO for launch.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 12/16/2022 · source

  • Weather >90%

    Nosu · 12/15/2022 · source

  • Weather 90%

    Nosu · 12/13/2022 · source

  • New launch date and time

    Cosmic_Penguin · 12/9/2022 · source

  • Re-set to December TBD due to delays in launches ahead in queue.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 12/7/2022 · source

Pad — Space Launch Complex 40

394 launches from this pad · 1,122 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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