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Turksat 5B Mission

SpaceX is targeting Saturday, December 18 for launch of the Turksat 5B mission to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force S...

Haberleşme Uydusu | Türkiye

Airbus Defence and Space firmasının Fransa’nın Toulouse şehrindeki tesislerinde üretimi devam eden Türksat 5B haberleşme uydusu Florida’daki Cape Canaveral Uzay Fırlatma Merkezine gönderilecek. Uydu, fırlatma öncesi hazırlıklarının ardından Falcon 9 roketi ile uzaya fırlatılacak.

Türksat 5B

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Overview

Destination: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Mission: Communications

Geostationary Transfer Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 80%
B1067 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

Türksat 5B is a geostationary communications satellite. It is tasked with providing broadband telecommunication services to customers across Turkey, the Middle East and large regions of Africa.

Updates


Nosu • Dec. 18, 2021, 1:25 p.m.

T-0 confirmed by Türksat



Nosu • Nov. 17, 2021, 5 p.m.

Targeting 03:58 UTC on December 19


Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1067

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: June 3, 2021
Last Flight: September 17, 2024
Flights: 22
Landings Attempted: 22
Landings Successful: 22
Previous B1067 Flights

Landing Information

B1067 landed on ASDS ASOG after its third flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at A Shortfall of Gravitas.

SpaceX

SpaceX

(SpX)

CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 408 Failures: 12 Pending: 117

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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