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Falcon 9 Block 5
Historical mission record
This page records Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C IM-2 & Others and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
Status reported by the mission data provider.
LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission
This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer. Also on board are: * Lunar Trailblazer, a small (class D) lunar orbiter, part of NASA's SIMPLEx program, that will detect and map water on the lunar surface to determine how its form, abundance, and location relate to geology. Its mission is to aid in the understanding of lunar water and the Moon's water cycle. * Odin, a spacecraft for AstroForge, a company that plans to mine asteroid resources. Odin intends to head into deep space to observe near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB5 in preparation for their first retrieval mission. Odin will fly by the asteroid at a distance of about 1 kilometer, arriving 11 months after launch. * CHIMERA GEO 1, a transfer spacecraft by Epic Aerospace to a geostationary orbit, with the aim of covering an orbital position. For this launch, CHIMERA-GEO is carrying an unidentified 16U cubesat manifested by Exolaunch.
- Launch vehicle
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Mission type
- Lunar Exploration
- Destination orbit
- Lunar Orbit
- Launch pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Recovery
- Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship, The Falcon 9 first stage B1083 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 9th flight. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Falcon 9 Block 5
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.
- Height
- 70 m
- Diameter
- 3.65 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 537
- First flight
- 2018-05-11
Recorded timing
This is a mission record, not an upcoming calendar appointment.
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SCHEDULED MOMENT
A single scheduled moment. The schedule may change before launch.
Flight timeline
Planned sequence, not live telemetry. Times are relative to the launch target.
- T−00:38:00
GO for Prop Load
- T−00:35:00
Prop Load
- T−00:35:00
Stage 1 LOX Load
- T−00:16:00
Stage 2 LOX Load
- T−00:07:00
Engine Chill
- T−00:01:00
Startup
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- T−00:01:00
Tank Press
- T−00:00:45
GO for Launch
- T−00:00:03
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:01:18
Max-Q
- T+00:02:30
MECO
- T+00:02:34
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:42
SES-1
- T+00:03:27
Fairing Separation
- T+00:06:15
Entry Burn Startup
- T+00:06:41
Entry Burn Shutdown
- T+00:07:55
SECO-1
- T+00:08:01
Stage 1 Landing Burn
- T+00:08:31
Stage 1 Landing
- T+00:36:25
SES-2
- T+00:37:26
SECO-2
- T+00:43:38
Payload Separation
- T+00:47:28
Payload Separation
- T+00:47:48
Payload Separation
- T+00:48:08
Payload Separation
Launch site & orbit
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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Launch site
DestinationLunar Orbit
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