Falcon 9 Block 5 | SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)

Falcon 9 Block 5

Dec 16, 2022, 11:46 AM UTC

Mission Elapsed Time

T-00:00:00

Booster History

B1071

Flight #6

Flight #6 · Last flown 2022-10-05

Total Flights: 33
Recovery Rate: 33/33 successful landings
This Landing: Landing successful· Return to Launch Site (RTLS)
Recovery Site: Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4)
Last Flight: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-29 · 71-day turnaround

Landing Record

33 successful · 0 failed · 33 total

Mission Details

Satellite altimeter jointly developed by NASA and CNES, the French space agency, in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and UK Space Agency (UKSA) designed to make the first global survey of the Earth's surface water, to observe the fine details of the ocean surface topography, and to measure how terrestrial surface water bodies change over time.

Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Launch Site

Pad: Space Launch Complex 4E
Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Country: 🇺🇸 USA