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SpaceX launched the TD7 satellite for operator Optus-X this evening from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Liftoff was at 5:28 PM EST into partly cloudy skies just as the sun was officially setting.
Around eight and a half minutes after launching, Booster B1077 completed its sixteenth mission when it touched down safely on SpaceX’s drone ship ‘A Shortfall Of Gravitas.’ The booster and ship will now return to Port Canaveral, where the booster offloaded and returned to the company’s Hangar X facility at Kennedy Space Center. There, it will be inspected and presumably prepared for its next mission.
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Launch Replay
By The Numbers
- 110th launch rocket launch this year for SpaceX
- 428th launch all-time for SpaceX
- 21st launch from LC-39A this year
- 372nd Falcon Family Booster landing
- 85th landing on A Shortfall Of Gravitas
- 43rd consecutive successful landing for a Falcon family booster
Next Launch
SpaceX will open the week’s launches tomorrow, Monday 18th with a Falcon 9 carrying the Indian telecommunication satellite, GSAT-20, for New Space India Limited from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral.
- Date: NET November 18, 2024
- Organization: SpaceX / NASA
- Mission: GSAT-20
- Rocket: Falcon 9
- Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral
- Launch Window: 1:31 – 3:20 PM EST
- Payload: Starlink satellites
Keep in mind that launch dates and times change often. Launch attempts can be scrubbed anytime due to weather, technical reasons, or range conditions.
Photo: Charles Boyer / FMN
