Starship | Superbird-9

Communications

Time to liftoff

Date unconfirmed

Target Window

Unconfirmed

Exact time to be confirmed

Net Precision

Year Half 1

— Mission

Superbird-9

Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit· GSTO

Superbird-9 is a high throughput communication satellite. It is designed to deliver broadcast and broadband missions in Ku band primarily over Japan and Eastern Asia, in response to mobility and broadband demands.

— Rocket

Starship

Starship (unknown version)

Length: 124.4 m
Diameter: 9 m
Launch Mass: 5,000 t
LEO Capacity: 100,000 kg

Launches

Success

Failures

— Launch Pad

Launch Complex 39A Starship Pad

Kennedy Space Center, FL

— 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.

711

Total

696

Success

128

Pending