Launch Mission: Starlink-5
Date: 3/18/2020
✅ Successful Launch
🧾 Mission Details
Flight #: 92
Details: The sixth Starlink launch overall and the fifth operational batch of Starlink satellites will launch into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. This mission is expected to deploy all sixty satellites into an elliptical orbit about fifteen minutes into flight. In the weeks following launch the satellites are expected to utilize their onboard ion thrusters to raise their orbits to 550 km in three groups of 20, making use of precession rates to separate themselves into three planes. The booster will land on a drone ship approximately 628 km downrange.
🚀 Rocket Details
Type: rocket
📍 Launchpad Details
Name: Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A
Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launchpad Details Page🛰️ Cores
- Core Serial: B1048 — Reuse Count: 4View Core
🧑🚀 Payloads
- Payload: Starlink-5 — Mass: 15600 kgView Payload