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Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 11 satellites on Bandwagon-1 mission from Cape Canaveral

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket on the first Bandwagon ride share mission to a mid-inclination low Earth orbit. Liftoff from pad 39A...

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Bandwagon 1 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Dedicated Rideshare

Low Earth Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Probability: 99%
B1073 - Landing Zone 1

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Payloads include Capella Space's Acadia-4 and the South Korean government's 425 Project Flight 2.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • April 8, 2024, 4:06 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 7, 2024, 11:17 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • April 7, 2024, 10:18 p.m.

Unofficial Webcast by NASASpaceflight has started



Cosmic_Penguin • April 6, 2024, 1:15 a.m.

GO for launch.


Falcon 9

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Configuration: Block 5

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.

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Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
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  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1073

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: May 14, 2022
Last Flight: October 23, 2024
Flights: 18
Landings Attempted: 18
Landings Successful: 18
Previous B1073 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1073 has landed back at the launch site after its 14th flight.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 1.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 408 Failures: 12 Pending: 117

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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.

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