SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust Echostar 23

Name: SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust Echostar 23
Start: 2017-03-16T06:00:00.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 39A

Falcon 9 Full Thrust

Status

Success

Date

16 MAR 2017

06:00

Launch Provider

SpaceX

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission Overview

Echostar 23 is a geostationary communications satellite, which will provide direct-to-home television broadcast services over Brazil. Being a flexible Ku-band satellite, it is capable of providing service from any of eight different orbital slots.

Rocket

Falcon 9 Full Thrust

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Stages

Livestream

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Rocket Details

The Full Thrust variants first stage includes all systems necessary for an operational re-use of stages while the second stage is operated as an expendable rocket stage.

Height

71 m

Diameter

3.65 m

Launch Mass

546 T

Thrust

6,804 kN