Starlink 8

Starlink-8 & SkySat 16-18

Starlink 8 and SkySat 16-18

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Information

• Mission name : Starlink-8 & SkySat 16-18

• Launch Date UTC : 2020-06-13T01:00:00.000Z

• Launch date local : 2020-06-12T21:00:00-04:00

• Launch date UNIX : 1592010000

• Launch pad : Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40

• Rocket : Falcon 9 Block 5

• First Stage

  • Reused? : yes

  • Landing type : ASDS (Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship)

• Second Stage

  • Payloads : Starlink 8 and SkySats 16, 17, 18

    • Type : Satellite

    • Payload mass : 15400 kg

    • Orbit : VLEO

      • Reference system : geocentric

      • Regime : very-low-earth

• Details : This mission will launch the eighth batch of operational Starlink satellites, which are expected to be version 1.0, from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral AFS. It is the ninth Starlink launch overall. The satellites will be delivered to low Earth orbit and will spend a few weeks maneuvering to their operational altitude of 550 km. This mission is expected to include rideshare payloads, SkySats 16-18, on top of the Starlink stack. The booster for this mission is expected to land an ASDS.

• Recent Twitter news :

• Liftoff! — SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 13, 2020

• Successful deployment of 58 Starlink satellites confirmed— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 13, 2020

Launch timezones

Timezones Europe

Zone	Date	Relative to UTC/GMT
Amsterdam	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Athens	Jun 13 2020 04:00:00	GMT +03:00
Berlin	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Bucharest	Jun 13 2020 04:00:00	GMT +03:00
Copenhagen	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Dublin	Jun 13 2020 02:00:00	GMT +01:00
Helsinki	Jun 13 2020 04:00:00	GMT +03:00
Istanbul	Jun 13 2020 04:00:00	GMT +03:00
Kaliningrad	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
London	Jun 13 2020 02:00:00	GMT +01:00
Madrid	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Monaco	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Moscow	Jun 13 2020 04:00:00	GMT +03:00
Oslo	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Paris	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Rome	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Volgograd	Jun 13 2020 05:00:00	GMT +04:00

Timezones Australia

Zone	Date	Relative to UTC/GMT
Sydney	Jun 13 2020 11:00:00	GMT +10:00
Melbourne	Jun 13 2020 11:00:00	GMT +10:00

Timezones Asia

Zone	Date	Relative to UTC/GMT
Baghdad	Jun 13 2020 04:00:00	GMT +03:00
Bangkok	Jun 13 2020 08:00:00	GMT +07:00
Damascus	Jun 13 2020 04:00:00	GMT +03:00
Dubai	Jun 13 2020 05:00:00	GMT +04:00
Gaza	Jun 13 2020 04:00:00	GMT +03:00
Hong Kong	Jun 13 2020 09:00:00	GMT +08:00
Kolkata	Jun 13 2020 06:30:00	GMT +05:30
Kuwait	Jun 13 2020 04:00:00	GMT+03:00
Qatar	Jun 13 2020 04:00:00	GMT +03:00
Seoul	Jun 13 2020 10:00:00	GMT +09:00
Shanghai	Jun 13 2020 09:00:00	GMT +08:00
Singapore	Jun 13 2020 09:00:00	GMT +08:00
Tokyo	Jun 13 2020 10:00:00	GMT +09:00
Vladivostok	Jun 13 2020 11:00:00	GMT +10:00

Timezones America

Zone	Date	Relative to UTC/GMT
Argentina/Buenos Aires	Jun 12 2020 22:00:00	GMT -03:00
Chicago	Jun 12 2020 20:00:00	GMT -05:00
Detroit	Jun 12 2020 21:00:00	GMT -04:00
Glace Bay	Jun 12 2020 22:00:00	GMT -03:00
Los Angeles	Jun 12 2020 18:00:00	GMT -07:00
Mexico City	Jun 12 2020 20:00:00	GMT -05:00
New York	Jun 12 2020 21:00:00	GMT -04:00
Toronto	Jun 12 2020 21:00:00	GMT -04:00
Vancouver	Jun 12 2020 18:00:00	GMT -07:00
Sao Paulo	Jun 12 2020 22:00:00	GMT -03:00

Timezones Africa

Zone	Date	Relative to UTC/GMT
Casablanca	Jun 13 2020 02:00:00	GMT +01:00
Cairo	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Freetown	Jun 13 2020 01:00:00	GMT +00:00
Johannesburg	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Lagos	Jun 13 2020 02:00:00	GMT +01:00
Tripoli	Jun 13 2020 03:00:00	GMT +02:00
Tunis	Jun 13 2020 02:00:00	GMT +01:00
Dakar	Jun 13 2020 01:00:00	GMT +00:00

Telemetry

The entiere Telemetry of the launch has been extracted using 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, with all the extracted data i started making comparisons and graphs

• Telemetry file in CSV or JSON

• Phases file in CSV or JSON

Predicted calculations predicted calculations done to the launch ( not everytime they are accurate)

• Vertical speed file in CSV or JSON,

• Horizontal speed file in CSV or JSON,

• Downrange file in CSV or JSON,

• Acceleration file in CSV or JSON,

• Analysis file in CSV or JSON, (contains all the data above except the acceleration)

Graphs (they are avaible in the API)

Mission Timeline

Time	Event
T-00:00:00	LIFTOFF THE HOLDOOWN CLAMPS HAVE RELEASED FALCON 9 AND WE HAVE BEGUN OUR FLIGHT
T+00:01:15	MAX Q MAXIMUM DYNAMIC PRESSURE THIS IS THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF AERODYNAMIC STRESS EXERTED ON THE VEHICLE
T+00:02:36	MECO MAIN ENGINE CUTOFF
T+00:02:41	STAGE SEPARATION STAGE 1 HAS SEPARATED FROM STAGE 2
T+00:02:49	SES 1 SECOND ENGINE STARTUP 1
T+00:03:12	FAIRING DEPLOY THE PROTECTIVE NOSECONE AT THE TOP OF THE ROCKET HAS BEEN DEPLOYED
T+00:06:49	STAGE ENTRY STAGE 1 IS STARTING ITS ENTRY BURN SLOWING IT DOWN FOR ENTRY INTO THE ATMOSPHERE
T+00:08:24	STAGE LANDING STAGE HAS BEGUN ITS LANDING BURN SLOWING IT FOR TOUCHDOWN AT SEA
T+00:08:59	SECO 1 SECONO ENGINE CUTOFF

API

The API is published in SpaceXTelemetry-API

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