SpaceX is getting ready to launch the primary in a brand new collection of rideshare missions that it dubbed “Bandwagon.” The 11 satellites will launch onboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Advanced 39A at NASA’s Kennedy House Heart.
Liftoff is about for 7:16 p.m. EDT (2316 UTC) and the forty fifth Climate Squadron forecast higher than 95 p.c odds of favorable circumstances at launch time.
Spaceflight Now can have dwell protection of the mission starting about an hour previous to liftoff.
Just like the “Transporter” rideshare flights, the Falcon 9 rocket for the Bandwagon-1 mission will launch with a batch of satellites, which can be deployed over a time period. Nonetheless, SpaceX has not disclosed the timing of the deployments because it sometimes does with Transporter missions.
That is probably as a result of presence of the South Korean Challenge 425 SAR (artificial aperture radar) satellites on board. The final time SpaceX launched a batch of those satellites, it additionally withheld timing data on spacecraft deployment.
Along with the 425Sat payload, the ten different spacecraft embody the next:
- HawkEye 360’s Clusters 8 & 9 (three satellites per cluster)
- Tyvak Worldwide’s CENTAURI-6
- iQPS’s QPS-SAR-7 TSUKUYOMI-2
- Capella House’s Capella-14
- Tata Superior Methods Restricted’s TSAT-1A
Acadia 4 mission patch is right here! With “Born within the USA,” we mirror on our personal heritage as the primary US firm to supply high-res #SAR and acknowledge the infrastructure we have constructed to quickly construct and launch satellites. Do not miss the @SpaceX Bandwagon-1 launch April 7, 7:16pm ET pic.twitter.com/lz0PHW99CG
— Capella House (@capellaspace) April 5, 2024
The primary stage booster supporting this mission, tail quantity B1073 within the SpaceX fleet, can be launching for a 14th time on this mission. It’s earlier flights included 9 Starlink missions and the launch of house’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander.
Following stage separation, B1073 will return to Touchdown Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral House Power Station about seven and a half minutes into the flight.
This would be the fortieth touchdown at LZ-1 and the 294th booster touchdown up to now.
SpaceX社から公式発表が出ました！
QPS-SAR7号機「ツクヨミ-Ⅱ」はBandwagon-1で日本時間4月8日月曜日午前8時16分に打上げ予定となりました🚀 pic.twitter.com/chTfcEbgYN
— iQPS / QPS研究所/人工衛星開発 (@QPS_Inc) April 5, 2024
