[2018-05-22] Falcon 9 Block 4 | Iridium-6 & GRACE-FO

astronautibot · 21 Maggio 2018, 7:47pm

Date di riferimento


Data di lancio	2018-05-22 19:47:58
Static Fire	2018-05-18 20:16:00

Status attuale


Stato attuale	SUCCESSO
Probabilità	90%

Missione

Missione	Tipo	Orbita
Iridium-6 & GRACE-FO	Telecomunicazioni	Orbita bassa terrestre (LEO)

Rampa di lancio


Nome	Space Launch Complex 4E^{1 2}
Località	Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Lanci totali	85

Lanciatore


Vettore	Falcon 9 Block 4^{1 2}
Produttore	SpaceX ^{1 2}
Fornitore servizi di lancio	SpaceX ^{1 2}
Primo volo	2015-12-22
Numero stadi	2
Dimensioni	altezza: 71,00 m diametro: 3,65 m
Peso al lancio	546 t
Spinta al decollo	6.804 kN
Capacità di carico	LEO: 22.800 kg GTO: 8.305 kg
Successi/Lanci totali	12/12 (12 consecutivi)

Stadi e booster

Tipo	Seriale	Voli	Recupero	Su	Precedente	Turnaround
-	B1043	2	Falcon 9 Block 4 Zuma	134 g.

Altre informazioni

Press Kit

Video

Launching U.S./German GRACE-FO (live broadcast) Original air date: May 22 at 12:15 p.m. PDT (3:15 p.m. EDT) A joint mission with the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), GRACE-FO will provide crit…
U.S./German GRACE-FO Launches Aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 3-2-1 liftoff of Falcon 9 with GRACE-FO! The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on, or GRACE-FO, a collaboration between NASA and German Research…
Iridium-6/GRACE-FO Mission SpaceX is targeting launch of Iridium-6/GRACE-FO on Tuesday, May 22 from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The insta…
GRACE-FO Launches Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on (GRACE-FO) spacecraft launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 22, 2018, aboard a S…

Patch di missione

Iridium-6 & GRACE-FO Patch

Ultimo aggiornamento: 2021-10-31 10:31 con AstronautiBOT 8.1 - Fonte: LaunchLibrary2 API, r/SpaceXAPI

astronautibot · 21 Maggio 2018, 7:48pm

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver 10 satellites to low Earth orbit for Iridium, a global leader in mobile voice and data satellite communications. This is the sixth set of 10 satellites in a series of 75 total satellites that SpaceX will launch for Iridium’s next generation global satellite constellation, Iridium® NEXT.
Sharing this launch is the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on mission, which is a joint project of NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences. It’s goal is to track Earth’s water movement to monitor changes in underground water storage, the amount of water in large lakes and rivers, soil moisture, ice sheets and glaciers, and sea level caused by the addition of water to the ocean.