SpaceX’s fifth Falcon Heavy of the yr is ready to liftoff from Launch Complicated 39A at NASA’s Kennedy House Middle carrying the US House Drive X-37B spaceplane.
Falcon Heavy – USSF-52 (OTV-7)
Window Opens: December twenty eighth at 8:07PM EST (01:07 UTC on the twenty ninth)
Window Closes: December twenty eighth at 8:17PM EST (01:17 UTC on the twenty ninth)
Present T0: December twenty eighth at 8:07PM EST (01:00 UTC on the twenty ninth)
Mission: Falcon Heavy launch of the US House Drive X-37B Car 2
Goal orbit: Categorized, theorized to be a extremely elliptical and extremely inclined orbit.
Boosters: B1064-5 as MY booster, B1065-5 as PY booster, B1084 as heart core. 76d 10h 47min 17s turnaround for facet boosters.
Booster histories: Aspect boosters beforehand flew USSF-44, USSF-67, Echostar 24, and NASA’s Psyche. Middle core is new.
Booster restoration: Aspect boosters will land at SpaceX’s Touchdown Zone 1 and Touchdown Zone 2. Middle core will probably be expended.
Fairing restoration: Doug positioned roughly 1,600km downrange
Rocket trajectory: Northeast hugging the east coast of the US
Payload mass: Categorized
Stubby nozzle: NO (fortunately)
Stats:
· SpaceX’s 97th launch of the yr and the eighth launch of the month
· 264th Falcon orbital launch since Amos 6, Falcon Heavy’s ninth orbital flight.
· SpaceX’s 72nd launch from LC-39A
· thirty second touchdown on LZ-1 out of 33 makes an attempt
· ninth touchdown on LZ-2 out of 9 makes an attempt
· 183rd and 184th profitable landings for the reason that final failed one
· three hundredth launch of a SpaceX rocket (5 F1, 284 F9, 9 FH, 2 Starship)
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