SpaceX F9 - Starlink Group 4-36 - SLC-40

[Grendal]

Launch Date: October 20
Launch Window: 10:45am EDT (7:45am PDT, 14:45 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Florida
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS - ASOG
Booster: B1062.10
Fairings: Reused
Mass: 54 Starlink Satellites
Orbit: LEO
Yearly Launch Number: 48th

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the 63rd group of satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink 4-36. This batch of satellites is headed to the 4th shell of the first generation constellation of Starlink which is comprised of about 72 orbital planes located at 540km in altitude and 53.2º of orbital inclination.

If successful, his will be the sixth booster to achieve 10 launches.

 

[Grendal]

Updated with current info

 

[Grendal]

Weather is good,

 

[808?]

 

[Grendal]

Another success, 48th of the year with 48 recoveries of the booster.

 

[HVM]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583110974776614915

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1583112511720521729

Deployment of 54 Starlink satellites confirmed

 

[HVM]

Beep boop i'm Twitter re-posting bot.

 

[Electroman]

Another success, 48th of the year with 48 recoveries of the booster.

We are on week 42 and they have done 48 launches. A cadence of more than one a week.

 

[Grendal]

Here's an interesting bit of SpaceX trivia: this launch was the quickest turnaround time of the same launch pad site at 5days, 9hours, and 28minutes from Eutelsat Hotbird 13F to Starlink 4-36!

 

[Electroman]

What is the work needed on the launch pad in between launches?

 

[Electroman]

What might be interesting to learn is, what is the shortest time for turnaround for a booster?

 

[Grendal]

What is the work needed on the launch pad in between launches? No clue.

What might be interesting to learn is, what is the shortest time for turnaround for a booster?

21 days 6 hours 16 minutes for B1062.6, Ax-1 launch to Starlink 4-16. Stats courtesy of:

SpaceX Statistics – ElonX.net

Up-to-date list of all kinds of statistics related to SpaceX and their launches, landings and spacecraft. – SpaceX

www.elonx.net

 

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