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Falcon 9 Block 5 | BlueBird 11-13 (Block 2 #6-8)
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Launch window 07:42–09:18 UTC, with a 75% weather probability at the time of writing.
The mission
AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched. This launch will feature 3 satellites.
Vehicle and site
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Family
- Falcon
- Mission
- BlueBird 11-13 (Block 2 #6-8)
- 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 BlueBird 11-13 (Block 2 #6-8)
- Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 3 Bluebird satellites + rocket stage moon impact coverage
- SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 with Bluebird 11-13
- BlueBird 11-13 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.