Falcon 9

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 14 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) Rocket Launch

Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

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SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 4 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare) Rocket Launch

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

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SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Project Kuiper (Falcon 9 #1) Rocket Launch

First of a three launches contract for Amazon’s Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation.

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SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS Rocket Launch

NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg’s governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembourg Earth Observation System). Its purpose is to provide high resolution images to national and international governmental and military organizations such as NATO.

The 800 kg satellite is built by OHB Italia and is equipped with a very high-resolution optical camera with a ground reolution of 50 cm in an around 450 km high sun-synchronous orbit. It will have a operational life time of 7 years.

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SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | MTG-S1 Rocket Launch

Second of EUMETSAT’s third generation of weather satellite.

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SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-11 Rocket Launch

SpaceX Crew-11 is the eleventh crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

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SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-33 Rocket Launch

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.

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SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-23 Rocket Launch

This is the 23rd flight of the Northrop Grumman’s uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 22nd flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others Rocket Launch

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models.
IMAP launch also includes several secondary payloads from NASA, which are: a small lunar orbiter called Lunar Trailblazer, space weather satellite SWFO-L1, GLIDE mission to study far ultraviolet emission in exosphere and a solar sail mission Solar Cruiser.