Launch Mission: Turksat 5A

Date: 1/8/2021

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 113

Details: SpaceX will launch the first of two next generation satellites on contract for Türksat. Türksat 5A is a Ku-band broadcast satellite built by Airbus Defense and Space and based on the Electric Orbit Raising version of the Eurostar E3000 platform. This spacecraft will be delivered into a transfer orbit and will then raise itself to its operational 31° East geostationary orbit to serve Turkey, the Middle East, Europe, North Africa and South Africa. The booster for this mission will be recovered downrange via ASDS.

🚀 Rocket Details

Name: Falcon 9

Type: rocket

📍 Launchpad Details

Name: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40

Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida

Launchpad Details Page

🛰️ Cores

Core Serial: B1060 — Reuse Count: 12View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: Turksat 5A — Mass: 3500 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

Name: HAWK — Type: TugView Ship
Name: Just Read The Instructions 2 — Type: BargeView Ship
Name: GO Ms Chief — Type: High Speed CraftView Ship
Name: GO Ms Tree — Type: High Speed CraftView Ship