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Flacon 9 landing4/16/2023 The landing target sits on the site of a former Titan 2 launch pad, around a quarter-mile (400 meters) from the Falcon 9 launch pad at SLC-4E, a site previously used by Titan 4 rockets. That is set to change with Sunday’s launch after lengthy environmental reviews and final preparations of the concrete landing pad at Vandenberg, dubbed Landing Zone 4. But none have returned to landings in California. SpaceX has landed 11 rockets at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station following launches from Florida, and another 18 boosters have touched down intact on the company’s ocean-going downrange drone ships. The Argentine-built SAOCOM 1A spacecraft, carrying a synthetic aperture radar imager for Earth observation, will ride the commercial launcher into orbit around 385 miles (620 kilometers) above Earth.įor the first time, SpaceX plans to return the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket to Vandenberg, a military facility located on California’s Central Coast between Los Angeles and San Francisco. EDT 0221:29 GMT Tuesday) from the SLC-4E launch pad at Vandenberg. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket was set for liftoff at 7:21:29 p.m. Credit: SpaceXĪ SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was raised vertical at Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sunday ahead of a planned liftoff with Argentina’s SAOCOM 1A radar observation satellite, and the first landing of a SpaceX booster on the U.S. The Falcon 9 rocket set to launch the SAOCOM 1A satellite stands on its launch pad Sunday.
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