Launch Thread - SpaceX Falcon 9: COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 (CSG-2)
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Launch Time: Thursday, January 27 6:11 p.m. EST / 23:11 UTC (instantaneous launch window)
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbFoi68L-GQ
Weather Forecast: 60% GO https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20COSMO-SkyMed%20L-1%20Forecast%20-%2027%20Jan%20Launch.pdf?ver=8DHLypSERIGCjzRv-kYVWA%3d%3d
Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Landing Site: Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1)
Booster: B1052.3 (Prior missions: Arabsat-6A, STP-2.)
Fairings: “One half of the fairings supporting this mission previously supported Transporter-1, Transporter-2, and one Starlink mission, and the other half previously supported SAOCOM 1B, Transporter-2, and one Starlink mission.”
Payload: Italian earth observation (primarily SAR) sat named CSG-2
>https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/cosmo-skymed-second-generation
>https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/cosmo-skymed-csg.htm
Payload mass & destination orbit: 810 kg; Circular sun-synchronous dawn-dusk orbit, nominal altitude = 619.6 km, inclination = 97.86º)
>https://www.spacex.com/launches/
Launch Viewing Guide for Florida:
>http://www.launchphotography.com/Launch_Viewing_Guide.html
>https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/viewing.html
Stats: 4th SpaceX launch of 2022, 137th F9 launch, 97th landing, 79th reflown booster.
This is the first Falcon Heavy side booster to F9 center core conversion booster to fly!
Launch Time: Thursday, January 27 6:11 p.m. EST / 23:11 UTC (instantaneous launch window)
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbFoi68L-GQ
Weather Forecast: 60% GO https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20COSMO-SkyMed%20L-1%20Forecast%20-%2027%20Jan%20Launch.pdf?ver=8DHLypSERIGCjzRv-kYVWA%3d%3d
Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Landing Site: Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1)
Booster: B1052.3 (Prior missions: Arabsat-6A, STP-2.)
Fairings: “One half of the fairings supporting this mission previously supported Transporter-1, Transporter-2, and one Starlink mission, and the other half previously supported SAOCOM 1B, Transporter-2, and one Starlink mission.”
Payload: Italian earth observation (primarily SAR) sat named CSG-2
>https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/cosmo-skymed-second-generation
>https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/cosmo-skymed-csg.htm
Payload mass & destination orbit: 810 kg; Circular sun-synchronous dawn-dusk orbit, nominal altitude = 619.6 km, inclination = 97.86º)
>https://www.spacex.com/launches/
Launch Viewing Guide for Florida:
>http://www.launchphotography.com/Launch_Viewing_Guide.html
>https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/viewing.html
Stats: 4th SpaceX launch of 2022, 137th F9 launch, 97th landing, 79th reflown booster.
This is the first Falcon Heavy side booster to F9 center core conversion booster to fly!