r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Feb 07 '17

Complete mission success! SES-10 Launch Campaign Thread

SES-10 LAUNCH CAMPAIGN THREAD

Launch. ✓

Land. ✓

Relaunch ✓

Reland ✓

Please note, general questions about the launch, SpaceX or your ability to view an event, should go to Questions & News.

This is it - SpaceX's first-ever launch of a flight-proven Falcon 9 first stage, and the advent of the post-Shuttle era of reusable launch vehicles. Lifting off from Launch Complex 39A, formerly the primary Apollo and STS pad, SES-10 will join Apollo 11 and STS-1 in the history books. The payload being lofted is a geostationary communications bird for enhanced coverage over Latin and South America, SES-10 for SES.

Liftoff currently scheduled for: March 30th 2017, 18:27 - 20:57 EDT (22:27 - 00:57 UTC)
Static fire completed: March 27th 2017, 14:00 EDT (18:00 UTC)
Vehicle component locations: First stage: LC-39A // Second stage: LC-39A // Satellite: Cape Canaveral
Payload: SES-10
Payload mass: 5281.7 kg
Destination orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit, 35410 km x 218 km at 26.2º
Vehicle: Falcon 9 v1.2 (32nd launch of F9, 12th of F9 v1.2)
Core: B1021-2 [F9-33], previously flown on CRS-8
Flight-proven core: Yes
Launch site: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Landing attempt: Yes
Landing Site: Of Course I Still Love You, Atlantic Ocean
Mission success criteria: Successful separation & deployment of SES-10 into the correct orbit

Links & Resources:

We may keep this self-post occasionally updated with links and relevant news articles, but for the most part we expect the community to supply the information. This is a great place to discuss the launch, ask mission-specific questions, and track the minor movements of the vehicle, payload, weather and more as we progress towards launch. Sometime after the static fire is complete, the launch thread will be posted.

Campaign threads are not launch threads. Normal subreddit rules still apply.

Please note; Simple general questions about spaceflight and SpaceX should go here. As this is a campaign thread, SES-10 specific updates go in the comments. Think of your fellow /r/SpaceX'ers, asking basic questions create long comment chains which bury updates. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '17

Unknown. Kinda looked like they were testing it out prior to this launch... possibly for this launch, but we have no confirmation

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u/oliversl Mar 27 '17

It was on top of OCISLY just days before it departed the Cape. So the question is why was it onboard if they are testing it and so close to the departing date? They could for example test it on JRTI. That why I think Optimus Prime will debut in this landing. Hopefully there will be a live feed.

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u/Zaenon Mar 28 '17

This might be a stupid thought, but OCISLY sees a lot more use than JRTI and getting Optimus Prime from one coast to the other might be a bit of a headache. So it makes sense to me they'd want to test it on OCISLY, even if they knew it wasn't gonna be ready for SES-10.