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SpaceX F9 - Transporter 6 - SLC-40

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Launch Date: January 3
Launch Window: 9:56am (7:56am PDT, 14:56 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Core Booster Recovery: RTLS at LZ1
Booster: B1060.15
Fairings: Reused
Mass: TBD
Orbit: SSO
Yearly Launch Number: 1

Transporter-6 is SpaceX’s sixth dedicated smallsat rideshare mission. There will be 114 payloads on this flight, including CubeSats, microsats, picosats and orbital transfer vehicles.

This will be SpaceX's 1st orbital launch for 2023.

This is the second booster to reach 11 launches.

 
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Really cool landing shots for B1060.
Wow! Awesome view. Interesting to see the amount of grid fin course correction required immediately after entry burn shutdown.

And strange to see land in view right after stage sep.

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With the boost back burn, the rocket is expected to keep moving west until it hits the atmosphere. But from the visuals that appears the lateral movement is zero long before it hits the atmosphere. Hard to judge from that angle though.
 
With the boost back burn, the rocket is expected to keep moving west until it hits the atmosphere. But from the visuals that appears the lateral movement is zero long before it hits the atmosphere. Hard to judge from that angle though.
This was a sun-synchronous orbit launch, the rocket basically went south (with a bit of a dogleg to stay off the coast).
 
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