Launch info

Scheduled for (UTC) 2024-07-08, 23:30
Scheduled for (local) 2024-07-08, 19:30 (EDT)
Launch site SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
Payload Türksat 6A
Booster 1076-15
Landing site Just Read the Instructions
Customer Türksat A.Ş.
Mission success criteria Successful delivery of payload to Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Webcasts

Stream Link
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoKYdf7HJx4
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmgMDzg1eEk
NASASpaceflight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu0a8byXE_4
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj2BRK_hi5g
SpaceX https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1810453636637712442
The Space Devs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pj5xxCjBLk

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 34th launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 5 days, 13:05:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 68th Falcon 9 launch this year, 354th overall

☑️ 69th SpaceX mission this year (nice!), 369th overall (excludes Starship hops)

☑️ 71st SpaceX launch this year, 382nd overall (includes Starship hops)

☑️ 86th landing on JRTI

☑️ 284th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (excluding Amos-6) (if successful)

☑️ 329th Falcon Family Booster landing, 339th Falcon recovery attempt

Mission and payload info

First communication geostationary satellite built in Turkey. (Some payloads are Canadian) Türksat 6A is a satellite that will provide data relay for civil and military communications to the Anatolian peninsula as well as most of the European continent, the Middle East, and the westernmost part of the Russian federation. The satellite is equipped with 16(+4) Ku-band and 2(+1) X-band transponders.

  • threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Yeah, that struck me as slightly odd as well, especially as they mention “military communications” as one of the use cases. I guess the U.S. government doesn’t block the launch because it is a Turkish satellite partially servicing Russia, and not a purely Russian satellite? Would be interesting to know more.