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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Türksat 6A - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station - July 8, 2024

Launch Date: July 8 Launch Time: 7:30 p.m. EDT, 23:30 UTC, (01:30 CEST - July 9)Launch Window: 4 hoursLaunch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Statio...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with Turkish satellite

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with Turksat 6A, Turkey's first domestically-produced communications satellite. Liftoff from Space L...

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Türksat 6A

Türksat 6A is a satellite that will provide data relay for civil and military communications to the Anatolian peninsula as well as most of the European conti...

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Türksat 6A

Overview

Destination: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Mission: Communications

Geostationary Transfer Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 30%
B1076 - Just Read the Instructions

Türksat 6A is Turkey's first domestically manufactured geostationary communications satellite. It is to reside in 42° East orbital slot, providing services to customers in Turkey, as well as in Europe, Northern coast of Africa, Middle East, India and Indonesia.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • July 9, 2024, 1:09 a.m.

Satellite signals acquisition confirmed.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 9, 2024, 12:08 a.m.

Spacecraft separation.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 8, 2024, 11:30 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • July 8, 2024, 11:13 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • July 8, 2024, 10:19 p.m.

New T-0 due to weather.


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


B1076

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 26, 2022
Last Flight: February 21, 2025
Flights: 21
Landings Attempted: 21
Landings Successful: 21
Previous B1076 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1076 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 15th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at Just Read the Instructions.

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 520 Failures: 15 Pending: 118

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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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