Falcon 9 Block 5 | Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

Liftoff Time
November 24, 2021 – 06:21 UTC
November 23, 2021 – 22:21 PST
Mission Name
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
Launch Provider
(What rocket company launched it?)
SpaceX
Customer
(Who paid for this?)
NASA (LSP)
Rocket
Falcon 9 B1063-3; 181.47-day turnaround
Launch Location
Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Payload mass
624 kg (1,400 lb)
Where did the satellites go?
Heliocentric
Where did the first stage land?
B1063 successfully completed a landing on Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)

Tug: Scorpius; Support: GO Quest
Did they attempt to recover the fairings?
The fairing halves were recovered by NRC Quest
This was the
– 129th Falcon 9 launch
– 26th Falcon 9 launch in 2021
– 127th Falcon 9 launch success
– 70th Falcon 9 launch with a flight-proven stage
– 18th SpaceX launch from SLC-4E
– 138th SpaceX mission
– 132nd SpaceX mission success
– 137th SpaceX launch
– 26th SpaceX launch of 2021
– 72nd Falcon booster landing success on a drone ship

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