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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 8-7
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
SpaceX's 362nd launch · 51st this year · humanity's 6,681st orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: May 14, 16:29 – May 14, 20:29 UTC
Flight preview
Starlink Group 8-7
A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Communications · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Booster
- B1063 · flight 18 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ Of Course I Still Love You · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-17 · zone record 209/217
Watch
- SpaceX Starlink Group 8-7 — The Space Devs
- SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 8-7 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - May 14, 2024 — SPACE AFFAIRS
- Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 20 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, California — Spaceflight Now
- Starlink Mission — SpaceX
Flight timeline
- T−38MGO for Prop Load
- T−35MProp Load
- T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
- T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
- T−7MEngine Chill
- T−1MTank Press
- T−1MStartup
- T−45SGO for Launch
- T−3SIgnition
- P0DLiftoff
- T+1M7SMax-Q
- T+2M25SMECO
- T+2M29SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M36SSES-1
- T+3M2SFairing Separation
- T+6M4SEntry Burn Startup
- T+6M29SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+7M59SStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+8M21SStage 1 Landing
- T+8M37SSECO-1
- T+52M11SSES-2
- T+52M13SSECO-2
- T+1H1M5SStarlink Deployment
Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 5/14/2024 · source
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin · 5/14/2024 · source
Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
LL2 · 5/14/2024 · source
Updating T-0
SwGustav · 5/14/2024 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 5/14/2024 · source
NET May 14.
Cosmic_Penguin · 5/9/2024 · source
Adding launch per NOTAMs.
Cosmic_Penguin · 5/8/2024 · source
Pad — Space Launch Complex 4E
Local pad time: May 14, 11:39 AM PDT
284 launches from this pad · 900 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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