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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-6
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
SpaceX's 243rd launch · 30th this year · humanity's 6,434th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: May 4, 07:31 – May 4, 07:31 UTC
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Starlink Group 5-6
A batch of 56 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Communications · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Booster
- B1069 · flight 7 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ A Shortfall of Gravitas · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | SES-18 & SES-19 · zone record 161/162
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Updates
Successful launch
Nosu · 5/4/2023 · source
Liftoff
Nosu · 5/4/2023 · source
Livestream has started
LL2 · 5/4/2023 · source
Updating T-0
Nosu · 5/3/2023 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 5/2/2023 · source
Weather 95%
Nosu · 5/1/2023 · source
NET May 4.
Cosmic_Penguin · 4/29/2023 · source
Targeting approximately 08:20 UTC
Nosu · 4/25/2023 · source
Re-use of heavily delayed Starlink launch mission entry for another group of Starlink satellites, newly declared.
Cosmic_Penguin · 4/25/2023 · source
NET January 2023
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/15/2022 · source
Pad — Space Launch Complex 40
Local pad time: May 4, 3:31 AM EDT
394 launches from this pad · 1,122 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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