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Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 7 & 8
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
SpaceX's 444th launch · 133rd this year · humanity's 6,837th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Weather concerns: Cumulus Cloud Rule, Surface Electric Fields Rule
Window: Dec 17, 20:59 – Dec 17, 22:26 UTC
Flight preview
O3b mPower 7 & 8
Seventh and eighth 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
- B1090 · flight 1 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ Just Read the Instructions · landed ✓ · zone record 156/157
Watch
- SpaceX O3b mPower 7 & 8 — The Space Devs
- 🚀SpaceX Launches O3b mPOWER-E — NASASpaceflight
- SES O3b mPOWER Mission — SpaceX
Flight timeline
- T−38MGO for Prop Load
- T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
- T−35MProp Load
- T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
- T−7MEngine Chill
- T−1MTank Press
- T−1MStartup
- T−45SGO for Launch
- T−3SIgnition
- P0DLiftoff
- T+1M11SMax-Q
- T+2M30SMECO
- T+2M33SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M41SSES-1
- T+3M30SFairing Separation
- T+6M20SEntry Burn Startup
- T+6M46SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+7M58SSECO-1
- T+8M10SStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+8M33SStage 1 Landing
- T+27MSES-2
- T+27M32SSECO-2
- T+1H49M35SSES-3
- T+1H50M4SSECO-3
- T+1H53M5SPayload Separation
- T+2H15SPayload Separation
Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/18/2024 · source
Spacecrafts separation.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/18/2024 · source
Liftoff
hitura-nobad · 12/17/2024 · source
Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
LL2 · 12/17/2024 · source
Now targeting Dec 17 at 22:26 UTC
hitura-nobad · 12/17/2024 · source
Now targeting Dec 17 at 22:00 UTC
hitura-nobad · 12/17/2024 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/17/2024 · source
Weather is 55% favorable for launch.
hitura-nobad · 12/16/2024 · source
Tweaked launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/15/2024 · source
NET December 17.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/15/2024 · source
Pad — Launch Complex 39A
Local pad time: Dec 17, 5:26 PM EST
222 launches from this pad · 281 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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