SpaceX F9 : O3b mPower 5/6 : CCSFS SLC-40 : 12 November 2023 (21:08 UTC)

[Galactic Penguin SST]

https://twitter.com/ses_satellites/status/1723851810320920670

Success! 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that our fifth and sixth #O3bmPOWER satellites have successfully launched into space!

This marks an incredible milestone for our second-generation medium earth orbit system, as this duo completes the six #MEO satellites required to offer high-performance network services delivering high throughput, predictable low latency, unique flexibility and service availability.

Congratulations to our team and partners for this remarkable achievement! 🙌

Read the #SESNews: ow.ly/6Kpy50Q6MHL

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@BoeingSpace @Spacex

📷Official launch photo credit: SpaceX

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1723848227147935964

Falcon 9 launches the @SES_Satellites O3b mPOWER mission to orbit from Florida

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/planetdeimos/status/1723887054172438684

Falcon 9 sending a third set of O3b mPOWER Internet Satellites to space for @SES_Satellites this afternoon from @SLDelta45.
O3b sats are placed in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and deliver higher bandwidth internet access compared to legacy Geostationary solutions. #O3bmPOWER
-@NSS

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/boeingspace/status/1723862220168216855

🛰️ We have contact! The fifth and sixth #O3bmPOWER satellites are sending and receiving signals after a successful Sunday launch. Congrats to our partners at @SES_Satellites who will soon be providing high-performance connectivity to customers around the world.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/tskelso/status/1723991082869146003

CelesTrak has GP data for 3 objects from the launch (2023-175) of O3b mPOWER 5 & 6 atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Nov 12 at 2108 UTC: spaceflightnow.com/2023/11/12/liv…. Data for the launch can be found at: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?INTDES=2023-175

[edkyle99]

Perigee a couple hundred km lower than the previous two O3b mPower missions.  Cool that they seemed to have captured the transfer orbit this time, shown as the "C" object.

 - Ed Kyle

[shiro]

Some reusability stats for this launch (O3b mPower 5&6):

Booster B1076.9 turnaround time: 38 days 15 hours 32 minutes
(its previous mission was Starlink Group 6-21 on Oct 5, 2023 UTC).

FYI: median turnaround time for Falcon 9 / Heavy boosters is currently 57.30 days *
* – based on the last 30 launches, excluding new first stages.

Launchpad SLC-40 turnaround time: 4 days 16 hours 3 minutes
(the previous launch from this pad was Starlink Group 6-27 on Nov 8, 2023 UTC).

FYI: median turnaround time for SLC-40 is currently 5.93 days *
* – based on the last 30 launches.

The same type of stats for previous SpaceX launches may be found on this spreadsheet online.

[catdlr]

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/spaceoffshore/status/1724859591320633726

Emerging from rough seas off the coast of Florida... it's ASOG droneship with SpaceX's Falcon 9 B1076!

nsf.live/spacecoast

[realnouns]

Crosby Skipper + ASOG + B1076 returned to PC on Nov 15 @ 2:14pm ET

[FutureSpaceTourist]

A Shortfall of Gravitas and her crew have found safe harbor in Port Canaveral following the recovery of B1076, closing out the O3b mPower  5&6 mission.

@NASASpaceflight live views of processing: nsf.live/spacecoast

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1724876129385783645

The soot and the moody late season tropical weather suit eachother well. Bonus views of B1076 after nine flights.

📷 Me for @NASASpaceflight

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/spaceoffshore/status/1726601287763140833

SpaceX support ship Bob returned to Port Canaveral overnight with four Falcon 9 fairing halves - from mPower 5&6 and Starlink 6-28.

nsf.live/spacecoast