Falcon 9 Block 5 | EchoStar 26

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— Featured

Article

Mission Status

@ARealRocketMan · Feb 13, 2026

SpaceX: Falcon 9

— Mission

EchoStar 26

Geostationary Transfer Orbit· GTO

EchoStar 26 is a direct broadcast satellite, built on the proven Maxar 1300 series platform, which will deliver content across DISH TV customers across all 50 U.S. states & Puerto Rico. It will be equipped with a high-power, multi-spot beam payload, allowing DISH to provide high-quality content to its customers.

— Rocket

Falcon

Falcon 9 Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

Length: 70 m
Diameter: 3.65 m
Launch Mass: 549 t
LEO Capacity: 22,800 kg
GTO Capacity: 8,300 kg
Maiden Flight: 2018

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 is the world's first orbital-class reusable rocket, designed for the reliable transport of people and payloads into Earth orbit and beyond — and SpaceX maintains an extremely high launch cadence with it.

— Launch Provider

Commercial

SpaceX

Est. 2002 · CEO: Elon Musk

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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