I'll be in Miami this Thursday 30th of March and there is a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida (if it's not delayed). I won't be able to drive north to be on time at Cape Canaveral to see it.

2020年11月23日 · The risk of rocket parts falling down on the ground instead into the ocean should be avoided. The trajectory of the rocket should not cross land after leaving the launch pad for the next hundreds of kilometers. A launch to retrograde orbit is possible from California, but most orbits are prograde and need the east coast.

2024年8月14日 · Payload masses for classified payloads and rideshare are not disclosed by SpaceX, so estimates fill in. Averaging non-classified military missions led to a ballpark of 3700 kg, and rideshare missions were estimated at 5000 kg. Wikipedia data is somewhat mixed on how Dragon or generally spacecraft mass is added to the up-mass.

2021年7月2日 · They could transport a wider structure from the port back to launch pad. The 3.7m limitation is imposed by the transport needs from the manufacturing site (Hawthorne, California) to the Development and Test Facility (McGregor, Texas) and the launch sites (Cape Canaveral in Florida, Vandenburg in California).

2024年11月7日 · SpaceX has said that Falcon 9 can send 4020 kilograms to Mars. However, I can't seem to find the payload capacity to lunar orbit. So, how much payload can Falcon 9 send to a lunar orbit at an altitude of, say, 100 kilometers? I would be interested in both expendable and drone ship landing configurations.

2024年10月20日 · SpaceX also made "[h]ardware upgrades for this flight [IFT-6] [which] add additional redundancy to booster propulsion systems, increase structural strength at key areas, and shorten the timeline to offload propellants from the booster following a successful catch" and "updated software controls and commit criteria for the booster’s launch and ...

ULA's pads were basically all built long ago, though maybe the Atlas/Delta pads could count as new. But those are at most one in Florida, one in California (I do not know the complex numbers they launch from). For completeness, I want to try and add in pictures of the various TEL's SpaceX has built. LC-40 - Falcon 9. LC-39A - Falcon 9 / Falcon ...

2024年6月16日 · As seen in this view from SpaceX of the Starlink 10-1 launch on June 7th at 9:56 pm EDT (June 8th at 2:56 am BST (British Summer Time)), at the moment of SECO (Second Stage Engine Cut-Off) the Falcon 9 second stage was off the northeastern coast of the United States when it reached orbit.

The launch limits at Vandenberg are 201 and 158 degrees. At a 201-degree launch azimuth, the spacecraft would be orbiting at a 104-degree inclination. Zero degrees would be due north of the launch site, and the orbital trajectory would be within …

2021年1月29日 · Incidentally, in the absence of much, much more evidence, suggestions that this is a live rat on a filming set at low altitude, and that SpaceX's launch videos are faked, are not credible to me. Commercial, profit-driven corporations appear to give SpaceX a great deal of money to put expensive things into orbit.