Falcon 9 Block 5 | SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
SpaceX's 209th launch · 57th this year · humanity's 6,361st orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Dec 16, 11:46 – Dec 16, 11:56 UTC
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SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Satellite altimeter jointly developed by NASA and CNES, the French space agency, in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and UK Space Agency (UKSA) designed to make the first global survey of the Earth's surface water, to observe the fine details of the ocean surface topography, and to measure how terrestrial surface water bodies change over time.
Earth Science · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Booster
- B1071 · flight 6 · Return to Launch Site @ Landing Zone 4 · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-29 · zone record 35/35
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Updates
Good deployment and AOS confirmed, successful launch
SwGustav · 12/16/2022 · source
Liftoff
SwGustav · 12/16/2022 · source
Coverage live
SwGustav · 12/16/2022 · source
NET December 16
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/15/2022 · source
Weather 100%
Nosu · 12/14/2022 · source
Launch date confirmed.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/30/2022 · source
NET Dec 12
SwGustav · 11/8/2022 · source
Adding approximate launch time
Nosu · 10/14/2022 · source
New launch date
Cosmic_Penguin · 8/25/2022 · source
NET November 15
Nosu · 3/25/2022 · source
