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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 (x 8)
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Launch window 01:12–01:27 UTC, with a 90% weather probability at the time of writing.
The mission
The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax services via its Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees. In early 2022, Globalstar contracted with MDA for the construction of 17 new 2nd generation refresh satellites to replenish the existing constellation. Rocket Lab is sub-contracted to build the satellites' buses and the launch dispensers.
Vehicle and site
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Family
- Falcon
- Mission
- Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 (x 8)
- Mission type
- Communications
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 40
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Coordinates
- 28.5619°, -80.5774°
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.
SpaceX
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.
- Launches to date
- 721
- Successful
- 706
- Failed
- 15
- Consecutive successes
- 206
Watch and read
- SpaceX Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 (x 8)
- Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches and lands at Cape Canaveral for Globalstar mission
- SpaceX Launches TWO Falcon 9s with Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 & USSF-366
- Globalstar 2-R Launch 1 Mission
- spacex.com
- Falcon 9 Block 5 on Wikipedia
- Space Launch Complex 40 on Wikipedia
Schedule from Launch Library 2, rebuilt hourly. Dates slip: a time given to the minute is a target, not a promise, and this page reflects the schedule as it stood at the last build. All upcoming launches.