SES 11/EchoStar 105 launch successful by Falcon 9, 1st stage rocket landed successfully in Atlantic Ocean

SES 11/EchoStar 105 launch successful by Falcon 9, 1^st stage rocket landed successfully in the Atlantic Ocean

Falcon 9 booter liftoff  from launchpad 39A in Florida

The 229-foot tall rocket poised for launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been successfully made it to space and back in its 2-hour launch window.

The Falcon 9 rocket reached its Mach 1 velocity (equivalent to the speed of sound) in about T+1:10 minutes, and then Max Q by T+1:18(the maximum aerodynamic pressure). After T+2:35 Falcon9’s Merlin D engine shut off. Shortly after that in T+2:38 Stage 1 engine separation happened.

Now after T+2:40 as a part of the second stage ignition of the Merlin 1D vacuum engine for about 6 minutes to put the rocket and SES11/EchoStart 105 into the preliminary orbit, As per SpaceX it was a “good orbit insertion”.

Finally after T+8:30 the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage booster touches down on Space X’s drone ship (Of course I still Love you) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Liftoff of previously flown Falcon9 rocket booster with the hybrid communication satellite SES 11/EuroStart 105

The second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket was shut down after reaching its preliminary low-altitude orbit, this was at T+08:38. After the re-ignition SES11/Echostar 105 was propelled into a supersynchronous transfer orbit, at T+27:58  the engine was shut down as it was programmed to shut down just before it runs out of propellant, just before ensuring it gets to the highest possible point in an orbit around 24, He launch concluded at T+36:07 when the hybrid communication satellite SES 11/EchoStar 105 separates from the Falcon 9

Falcon 9 landed at the SpaceX's drone ship(Of course I still love you)  

rocket in a supersynchronous transfer orbit.

SES confirms ground controllers have received the first signal from the newly –launched SES 11/EchoStar 105 satellite.