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Falcon Heavy | Griffin Mission One

Mission

Griffin Mission One

Type:

Lunar Exploration

Orbit:

Lunar Orbit

Demonstration flight of the Astrobotic Griffin lander and its engines, initially contracted for the cancelled NASA VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission. The vacated payload spot will now host the FLIP (FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform) lunar rover from Astrolab.

Status

To Be Determined

Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.

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:

259

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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