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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-7

Launch Status: To Be Confirmed – Awaiting official confirmation – current date is known with some certainty.

Launch Date: 2025-03-07 18:00:00

Launch Window: 2025-03-07 18:00:00 to 2025-03-07 22:31:00

Service Provider: 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.

Type: Commercial

Spacecraft: Falcon 9 – 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.

Launchers: Falcon | Starship

Spacecraft: Dragon

Program: Commercial Resupply Services – Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for twelve cargo Dragon and $1.9 billion to Orbital Sciences for eight Cygnus flights, covering deliveries to 2016. The Falcon 9 and Antares rockets were also developed under the CRS program to deliver cargo spacecraft to the ISS.

Location: –

Mission: Starlink Group 11-7 – A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation – SpaceX’s project for space-based Internet communication system.

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

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