SpaceX F9 - Sirius SXM 8 - SLC-40

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Launch Date: June 6
Launch Window: 04:46 GMT
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS
Booster: B1061-3
Fairings: New
Mass: Approx 7000 kg
Orbit: GTO to GEO

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the SXM 8 satellite for SiriusXM. The satellite will replace the aging XM-4 satellite in SiriusXM’s fleet providing satellite radio programming to consumers across North America. SXM 8 was built by Maxar Technologies The satellite features a large unfurlable S-band reflector to broadcast radio signals to users on the ground.

SXM 7, 8

Sirius SXM-8 | Falcon 9 Block 5

SpaceX will launch the next Sirius XM satellite in the Sirius XM constellation. SXM-8 will be launching from SLC-40 in Florida, USA.

everydayastronaut.com

 

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Spaceflight Now showing this as delayed.

 

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Webcast:

 

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[Grendal]

Great launch, MECO, landing, and coming up on deployment. The landing looked dead center.

 

[MyJoule]

SXM8 is on it's way to it's orbit, good launch, good landing of Stage 1 and good deployment of SXM8

Another day at the office for SpaceX's Falcon 9.

 

[Cosmacelf]

So up next, assuming the schedule holds, is a GPS launch, Transporter 2, and then the first dedicated polar Starlink launch sometime in July, which would be B1049's 10th launch.