Teams are keeping an eye on weather, which is now 60% favorable for liftoff
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Propellant load of Falcon 9 is underway and Dragon’s escape system is armed. Approximately 30 minutes until liftoff
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Ax-3 is go for launch
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Dragon’s hatch is now closed. Less than two hours to Falcon 9’s launch to the ISS.
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This will be the fifth flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster launching this mission, and the third for this Dragon spacecraft. Both previously supported Axiom Space’s Ax-2 mission
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Meet Ax-3, the crew of Dragon’s 12th human spaceflight mission
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SpaceX and Ax-3 completed a full rehearsal of launch day activities
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🚀 Next launch Axiom Space Mission 3
Rocket Falcon 9 Block 5
From LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center 🇺🇸

🕙 Launch time
January 18th, 21:49 UTC 🆕

🌍 Mission information
Type Tourism
Orbit Low Earth Orbit

🚀 Vehicle information
Core B1080.5 (5th flight ♻️)
Landing LZ-1 (RTLS)

ℹ️ This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a professionally trained commander alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

🎞 Live stream

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Falcon 9 launches 23 Starlink satellites and lands on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship
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🚀 Next launch Starlink Group 6-37
Rocket Falcon 9 Block 5
From SLC-40, Cape Canaveral 🇺🇸

🕙 Launch time
January 15th, 01:52 UTC 🆕

🌍 Mission information
Type Communications
Orbit Low Earth Orbit

🚀 Vehicle information
Core B1073.12 (12th flight ♻️)
Landing ASOG (ASDS 🌊)

ℹ️ A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation

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Falcon 9 launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from California and lands on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship

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The SpaceX sign at the launch site was lit up
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We are aiming for 144 launches in 2024 (12 per month). The launch system (pads, recovery, flight hardware) needs to be capable of 13/month so we can play catch up when planned maintenance, debacles and weather inevitably slow us down.

Source: @TurkeyBeaver | VP of Launch at SpaceX

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⁣After an extended break, we're back to bring you all the latest updates! (Happy New Year!) As we launch into 2024, let's look back at the stellar year SpaceX had in 2023:

📊 Highlights of the year:
• 98 launches - 91 Falcon 9s, 5 Falcon Heavies, and 2 Starships.
• 185 consecutive booster landings.
• Falcon's life leader booster hit a record 19 flights & landings.

Excluding undisclosed payload masses, SpaceX has launched over 1,238 tonnes of payload to orbit that year, or 2.25 times the mass of a Falcon 9 rocket ready for takeoff.

📊 More Records:
• Shortest time between two Falcon launches at 2 hours and 54 minutes.
• B1080 became the first booster to land onshore after launching a crewed mission (Ax-2)
• 294 Falcon launches in total
• 259 booster landings in total.

👥 Elon Musk is set to discuss these achievements and reveal plans for 2024 in a SpaceX company talk he'll be posting publicly.

🚀 Before IFT-3, there's still work to be done: Booster Inspection, Orbital Pad Inspection & repaint, TPS tile replacement on S28, Full Stack WDR, Launch Readiness Review, and FAA Post Launch Investigation conclusion. But SpaceX has been very busy at Starbase. More on that later...

There are good news as Jessica Jensen, the vice president of customer operations and integration at SpaceX, recently stated that:

Hardware for Starship flight three will be ready in January, and that the company expects to receive an FAA license in February.

📅 2024 has barely begun and SpaceX has already completed 2 Starlink launches and one commercial mission. This included the first 6 satellites with direct-to-cell connectivity. Also an exciting launch of a lunar lander is coming up soon.

Stay tuned for more catch-up & news!

📷 Wikipedia

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SpaceX was founded to help create a future where not just hundreds but thousands and ultimately millions of people can travel off Earth, to live and work in space and on other planets.
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Dragon missions are important for safely flying astronauts to conduct research and other activities in orbit, as well as laying the foundation for that future where more people from all around the world have an opportunity to travel to low-Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, or beyond!

To support our growing manifest of Dragon missions, we upgraded our pad at Space Launch Complex 40 to also support human spaceflight missions! Meaning, we’ll have more opportunities for more people to fly on Dragon to orbit

‍If you’re interested in helping us advance the future of human spaceflight, and potentially fly on a future Dragon mission, check out
spacex.com/humanspaceflight/
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The official NASA livestream for Ax-3 has gone live
🌐 Stream

Note: The stream description is outdated and the actual launch time is January 18th, 21:49 UTC

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Crew transport of the future
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The crew arriving at pad 39A in Florida earlier today
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Now targeting Thursday, January 18 for launch of the Ax-3 mission to the ISS. The additional time allows teams to complete pre-launch checkouts and data analysis on the vehicle
spacex.com/launches
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Static Fire! SpaceX Falcon 9 B1080-5 - with Crew Dragon C212 Freedom on top - Static Fires at 39A ahead of Axiom Space AX-3 crewed mission to the ISS.

SpaceX will review the data prior to approving Wednesday's launch.
Source: @NASASpaceflight

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Falcon 9 and Dragon vertical at pad 39A in Florida. Targeting Wednesday, January 17 for launch of Ax-3 → spacex.com/launches
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Falcon 9 delivers 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida – completing our 300th successful launch!
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Falcon 9 launches 22 Starlink satellites to orbit and lands on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship
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SpaceX released a new render of the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission.

Commanded by rookisaacman, this mission will most notably conduct the first commercial spacewalk. Scheduled to launch in early 2024.
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‍Great update from Elon including a rendering of Dragon's EVA config w/mobility aids. Elon highlighted the challenge of building an EVA suit but also the importance for future lunar & Mars applications. The suits we will test on Polaris Dawn represent a step towards that goal
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Key takeaways from NASA's latest Artemis media conference, with the intervention of Jessica Jensen, VP of Customer Operations and Integration at SpaceX:

Artemis 3 has been pushed back to September 2026 to "give Artemis teams more time to work through the challenges". "Artemis 4 remains on track for September 2028", per former Senator Bill Nelson.

On-orbit ship-to-ship propellant transfer demos are intended to be conducted starting this same year, but not on IFT-3. That flight test will feature a propellant transfer test from S28's header tank to its main tank, though. Hardware for IFT-3 is expected to be ready this month and, if all goes according to plan, a new FAA license should be issued in February, according to Jessica.

SpaceX intends to "do an uncrewed landing on the Moon and then ascend from the surface" in 2025 to ensure crew safety before Artemis 3. They will do as many integrated flight tests as they can before that landing takes place.

The number of refills Starship will have to undergo for Artemis is still to be determined, but is currently expected to be ~10. That number will probably go down as SpaceX continues to test and iterate.

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Falcon 9 launches the OvzonAB Ovzon 3 mission to GTO and lands at LZ-1 in Florida.

The first Falcon 9 launch to GTO with a return-to-launch-site (RTLS) landing.

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Falcon 9 launches 21 Starlink satellites to orbit from California, including six with Direct to Cell capabilities and lands on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship
direct.starlink.com

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Reflecting on a great year of spaceflight with SpaceX’s 96th and final orbital launch of 2023, with 23 more Starlink satellites headed to orbit tonight. What a year!
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