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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 26

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SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

SpaceX's 136th launch · 19th this year · humanity's 6,080th orbital launch attempt

May 15, 2021Add to calendar
Success70% go

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

Window: May 15, 22:56 – May 15, 22:56 UTC

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Starlink 26 & Rideshare

A batch of 52 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. Two rideshare satellites are also on this flight: a Capella radar observation spacecraft and a small payload from the California-based smallsat manufacturer Tyvak.

Communications · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Booster

  • B1058 · flight 8 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ Of Course I Still Love You · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 23 · zone record 209/217

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Updates

  • Marking success per visual confirmation

    JRascagneres · 5/16/2021

  • Shifting NET to 22:56 UTC

    JRascagneres · 5/15/2021 · source

  • Adjusting T-0

    SwGustav · 5/14/2021 · source

  • Setting GO and weather 70%

    Nosu · 5/12/2021 · source

  • Adding launch.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 5/8/2021 · source

Pad — Launch Complex 39A

222 launches from this pad · 281 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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