Launches / Falcon 9 Block 5

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Dragon CRS-2 SpX-33

Falcon 9 Block 5, flown by SpaceX

Falcon 9 Block 5 lifting off with the Dragon CRS-2 SpX-33 mission
Image via The Space Devs.

This was SpaceX's 106th launch of 2025, and its 555th in all.

Counting every operator, it was the 192nd orbital launch attempt anywhere in 2025, and the 49th from Space Launch Complex 40.

Launched
Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, 6:45 a.m. UTC
Launch site
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Rocket
Falcon 9 Block 5
Operator
SpaceX
Weather
70% favorableCumulus cloud rule, lightning rule

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The mission

33rd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory. The CRS SpX-33 Mission will be the first mission including a boost module inside the dragons trunk for ISS orbit raising.

Type
Resupply
Destination
Low Earth orbit
Program
International Space Station

The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.

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The rocket

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

Height
70 m
Built by
SpaceX
First flew
May 11, 2018
Lifts to low Earth orbit
22,800 kg
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Lifts to geostationary transfer
8,300 kg
Diameter
3.7 m
Mass at liftoff
549 t
Thrust at liftoff
7,607 kN
Stages
2

627 flights, 626 of them successful. 612 boosters brought back from 617 attempts.

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The operator

SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

Sector
Commercial
Based in
USA
Founded
2002
Run by
Elon Musk, CEO

724 launches so far, 709 of them successful. The last 209 in a row went to plan.

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The launch site

It went up from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.

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