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Falcon Heavy | OTV-7 (X-37B) (USSF-52)

Mission

OTV-7 (X-37B) (USSF-52)

Type:

Government/Top Secret

Orbit:

Elliptical Orbit

It is the seventh flight of the X-37B program. United States Air Force Orbital Test Vehicle is built by Boeing. It's an uncrewed 5000 kg, 8.8 m-long reusable mini-spaceplane capable of autonomous re-entry and landing.

Status

Launch Successful

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Pad

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Launch Complex 39A

USA

Latitude: 28.60822681

longitude: -80.60428186

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Location

Timezone:

America/New_York

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

Location total Launch count:

260

Location total Landing count:

0

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Rocket

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Falcon Heavy

The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.

Family: Falcon

Variant: Heavy

Details

Min stage: 3

Max stage: 3m

Length: 70.0m

Diameter: 12.2

First Flight: Feb. 6, 2018

Total launch count: 11

Successful launches: 11

Pending launches: 8

Consecutive successful launches: 11

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) capacity: 63800kg

Launch cost: US$90000000

Apogee: 200km

Attempted landings: 21

Successful landings: 19

Failed landings: 2

Consecutive successful landings: 13

Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) capacity: 26700kg

Manufacturer

SpaceX

Type:

Commercial

None

None

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Agency

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SpaceX

Type: Commercial

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