Falcon Heavy | STP-2
Launch Successful
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Launch Window
June 25, 2019, 3:30 a.m. - June 25, 2019, 7:30 a.m.
June 25, 2019, 3:30 a.m. - June 25, 2019, 7:30 a.m.
The Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission, managed by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), is targeting launch on June 24, 2019, with the launch window opening at 11:30 p.m. ET. Lifting off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in …
The STP-2 payload is composed of 25 small spacecraft. Included is COSMIC-2 constellation to provide radio occultation data, along with 8 cubesat nanosatellites. Other payloads include LightSail carried by the Prox-1 nanosatellite, Oculus-ASR nanosatellite, GPIM and the Deep Space Atomic Clock.
The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.
See DetailsThe side boosters will attempt to land at LZ-1 and LZ-2.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 2.The side boosters will attempt to land at LZ-1 and LZ-2.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 1.The center core was not able to land successfully on OCISLY, this however was SpaceX's most ambitious landing attempt to date.
Result: B1057 did not land successfully.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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