# Starlink 5

## Starlink 5

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![](https://images2.imgbox.com/9a/96/nLppz9HW_o.png)

## Information

* **Mission name** : Starlink 5
* **Launch date UNIX** : 1584533760
* **Launch date UTC** : 2020-03-18T12:16:00.000Z
* **Launch date Local** : 2020-03-18T08:16:00-04:00
* **Webcast** : [YouTube](https://youtu.be/I4sMhHbHYXM)
* **Presskit** : [spacex.com](https://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/sixth_starlink_press_kit.pdf)
* **Rocket** : Falcon 9 Block 5
* **Site launch** : Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A
* **Initial Latitude**: 28.6050
* **Initial Longitude**: -80.6026
* **launch success** : true
* **First stage**
  * **Core serial** : B1048
  * **Landing type** : ASDS (Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship)
  * **Landing vehicle** : OCISLY (Of Course I Still Love You)
* **Second stage**
  * **Payloads**
    * **Payload id** : Starlink 5
    * **Payload type** : Satellite
    * **Payload mass kg** : 15600
    * **Manufacturer** : SpaceX
    * **Country** : United States
    * **Orbit** : LEO (low earth orbit)
      * **Reference system** : Geocentric
* **Fairings**
  * **Vessel** : GOMSTREE
  * **recovered** : false
* **Other statistics**
  * \#92 flight of SpaceX
  * Total satellites sent in space 300 to 360&#x20;

**Description** :

The sixth Starlink launch overall and the fifth operational batch of Starlink satellites will launch into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. This mission is expected to deploy all sixty satellites into an elliptical orbit about fifteen minutes into flight. In the weeks following launch the satellites are expected to utilize their onboard ion thrusters to raise their orbits to 550 km in three groups of 20, making use of precession rates to separate themselves into three planes. The booster will land on a drone ship approximately 628 km downrange.

also a pretty cool photo taken during the launch

![](https://3982770921-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M6du2Al4dktPWPs63pp%2F-M7mkA9iUtdLcT46gAKD%2F-M7mljYl5bfse6w3SuMp%2F49673373182_93a517e140_o.jpg?alt=media\&token=0efec1e4-90f1-4219-9339-0f21e1b7de16)

## Telemetry

The entiere Telemetry of the launch has been extracted using [SpaceXTelemetry](https://github.com/R4yGM/SpaceXTelemetry) (program that i wrote, not open source now)

SXT reads data frame by frame and it uses the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and sometimes this OCR could give wrong results because it isn't perfect, so some numbers are faked a little, you could see the complete telemetry extracted in this csv [file](https://spacextelemetry.cf/starlink/starlink-5/api/telemetry.csv) there is also a json [file](https://spacextelemetry.cf/starlink/starlink-5/api/telemetry.csv) but the csv file, with all the extracted data i started making comparisons and graphs

![](https://3982770921-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M6du2Al4dktPWPs63pp%2F-M9xEX4qmSoT90_GRYcf%2F-M9xEg0w4CFomaOrzmTb%2Ftotal-seconds-vs-speed.png?alt=media\&token=29a0b7af-017f-4619-9c73-4f3279c61e9f)

![](https://3982770921-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M6du2Al4dktPWPs63pp%2F-M9xEX4qmSoT90_GRYcf%2F-M9xEg0vSDkudYFl37Jk%2Ftotal-seconds-vs-altitude.png?alt=media\&token=839ebba5-f135-4fa8-9dc6-323f46e47561)

**ISA Calculations (International Standard Altitude) :**

![](https://3982770921-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M6du2Al4dktPWPs63pp%2F-M9xEX4qmSoT90_GRYcf%2F-M9xEg0uMWSjce1f959E%2Ftemperature-vs-altitude.png?alt=media\&token=7ec6d268-b185-46e5-9c7a-00e147b93bcc)

![](https://3982770921-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M6du2Al4dktPWPs63pp%2F-M9xEX4qmSoT90_GRYcf%2F-M9xEg0rsu3DAY7nJbjO%2Fpressure-vs-altitude.png?alt=media\&token=d379df77-1084-4f91-abcb-4b5d4708e0ba)

![](https://3982770921-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M6du2Al4dktPWPs63pp%2F-M9xEX4qmSoT90_GRYcf%2F-M9xEg0tRCrBD5EBtKTM%2Fspeed-of-sound-vs-total-time.png?alt=media\&token=065bed0d-ec40-40b4-9cc7-5f0549e2bd58)

![](https://3982770921-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M6du2Al4dktPWPs63pp%2F-M9xEX4qmSoT90_GRYcf%2F-M9xEg0nTCS9ty4R-PVe%2Fdensity-vs-altitude.png?alt=media\&token=e3e64ecf-7c09-49ed-b62c-85b6b6f6b9ad)

![](https://3982770921-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M6du2Al4dktPWPs63pp%2F-M9xEX4qmSoT90_GRYcf%2F-M9xEg0sgU4RTQkYBN6U%2Fspeed-of-sound-vs-altitude.png?alt=media\&token=0eb8ec28-6aba-41fd-98e9-aa2f87c62a11)

## Mission Timeline

* **Time T-00:00:01 Phase Startup** : THE FALCON 9 FLIGHT COMPUTERS HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF THE COUNTDOWN
* **Time T+00:00:00 Phase liftoff** : LIFTOFF THE HOLDOOWN CLAMPS HAVE RELEASED FALCON 9 AND WE HAVE BEGUN OUR FLIGHT
* **Time T+00:01:15 Phase MAX-Q** : MAX Q MAXIMUM DYNAMIC PRESSURE THIS IS THE HIGEST AMOUNT OF AERODYNAMIC STRESS EXERTED ON THE VEHICLE
* **Time T+00:02:36 Phase MECO** : MAIN ENGINE CUTOFF
* **Time T+00:02:39 Phase stage separation** : STAGE SEPARATION STAGE 1 HAS SEPARATED FROM STAGE 2
* **Time T+00:02:48 Phase SES 1** : SES 1 SECOND ENGINE STARTUP
* **Time T+00:03:12 Phase fairing deploy** : FAIRING DEPLOY PROTECTIVE NOSECONE AT THE TOP OF THE ROCKET HAS BEEN DEPLOYED
* **Time T+00:06:53 Phase Stage 1 Entry** : STAGE ENTRY STAGE 1 IS STARTING ITS ENTRY BURN SLOWING IT DOWN FOR ENTRY INTO THE ATMOSPHERE
* **Time T+00:08:28 Phase stage Landing** : STAGE 1 HAS BEGUN IT'S LANDING BURN SLOWING IT DOWN FOR TOUCHDDWA AT SEA
* **Time T+00:08:58 Phase  SECO 1** : SECO 1 SECOND ENGINE CUTOFF 1

complete files for the phases in [JSON ](https://spacextelemetry.cf/starlink/starlink-5/api/phase.json)or [CSV](https://spacextelemetry.cf/starlink/starlink-5/api/telemetry.csv)

all the phases are extracted by me using my own tool [SpaceXTelemetry](https://github.com/R4yGM/SpaceXTelemetry)

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