425 Project Flight 1 & Rideshares

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

18:19:43

Friday December 1, 2023

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Hitchhicking payloads

* EIRSAT-1, Ireland's first satellite, is a 2U cubesat by University College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast that carries a gamma-ray detector and an experiment of thermal coatings for other spacecraft.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

24 Payloads

425 Project Flight 1

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Launch of the first satellite in a contract of 5 reconnaissance satellites for the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), with 1 satellite featuring an electro-optical infrared (EO/IR) telescope. The other 4 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites are to be launched at a later date. They will be launched to low Earth orbit between 600 and 700 km by 2025, enabling South Korea’s military to observe the nuclear-armed neighbor’s key military facilities every two hours with 30-50 centimeters resolution imagery, according to a 2019 report produced by the Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning. The project is led by the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), with input from Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Hanwha Systems, and Thales Alenia Space.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

800 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Falcon 9 Block 5

Active Since 2018

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Agency

SpaceX

Price

$69.75 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.7m

Height: 70m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 22,800 kg

GTO: 8,300 kg

Liftoff Thrust

7,607 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.2m

Height: 13m

Stages

2

Launch Site

SLC-4E

Vandenberg SFB, California, USA

Fastest Turnaround

2 days 22 hours

Stats

Falcon 9


279th

Mission

84th

Mission of 2023

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294th

Mission

90th

Mission of 2023

2023


194th

Orbital launch attempt