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Falcon 9 carried 114 spacecraft to orbit that were set to deploy across 82 deployments, 78 of which have been confirmed. Teams are continuing to review data, though it may take customers some time to provide additional information on the status of their payloads
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Rideshare deployment sequence complete
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Rideshare deployment sequence has begun
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on Landing Zone 1
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Liftoff!
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Watch Falcon 9 launch 114 spacecraft to orbit → spacex.com/launches twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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~8 minutes after liftoff, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth and land on Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida
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T-1 hour until Falcon 9 launches 114 spacecraft to orbit. Weather is 90% favorable for liftoff → spacex.com/launches
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There are 114 payloads on this flight, including CubeSats, microsats, picosats, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying spacecraft to be deployed at a later time
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For SpaceX’s first launch of 2023, we’re targeting 9:56 a.m. ET on Tuesday, January 3 for Falcon 9’s sixth dedicated smallsat rideshare mission to orbit spacex.com/launches
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Most importantly, SpaceX successfully delivered our customers’ payloads to orbit, deployed additional Starlink satellites that add more capacity to our network, and flew critical cargo and astronauts to the @Space_Station and safely returned them back home Earth
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On average, SpaceX launched every 6 days from one of our three sites with 92% of missions completed with flight-proven first stage rocket boosters, and Falcon 9 now holds the world record for most launches of a single vehicle type in a single year
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Falcon 9 launched the @ImageSatIntl EROS C-3 mission to orbit overnight, completing SpaceX’s 61st and final launch of 2022 — nearly double our record of 31 launches set last year
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Deployment of @ImageSatIntl EROS C-3 confirmed
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on Landing Zone 4
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Liftoff!
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Watch Falcon 9 launch the @ImageSatIntl EROS C-3 mission to orbit → spacex.com/launches twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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New T-0 of 11:38 p.m. PT for Falcon 9’s launch of the @ImageSatIntl EROS C-3 mission
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Falcon 9 is vertical on pad 4E in California ahead of tonight’s targeted launch of the @ImageSatIntl EROS C-3 mission; weather forecast is currently 30% favorable for liftoff at 11:17 p.m. PT → spacex.com/launches
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Deployment of 54 Starlink satellites confirmed!
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We'll confirm satellite deployment after we regain ground station coverage in ~50 minutes
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship
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Liftoff!
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Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship which is stationed down range in the Atlantic Ocean