Category: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

  • SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | OneWeb 20

    SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | OneWeb 20

    A batch of 20 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consumers. The constellation is planned to have around 648 microsatellites (of which 60 are spares), around 150 kg each, operating in Ku-band from low Earth orbit.

  • Firefly Aerospace | Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Lockheed Martin Demo 1)

    Firefly Aerospace | Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Lockheed Martin Demo 1)

    First of up to 25 launches of Low Earth Orbit technology demonstration satellites to be built and operated by Lockheed Martin. Launch operation will also again demonstrate responsive space pre-launch operation capabilities.

  • SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-2

    SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-2

    A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation – SpaceX’s project for space-based Internet communication system.

  • SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

    SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

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

  • Northrop Grumman Space Systems | Minotaur IV | NROL-174

    Northrop Grumman Space Systems | Minotaur IV | NROL-174

    Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

  • SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A

    SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A

    First of six missions launched by the Space Development Agency for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.

  • SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS

    SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS

    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…

  • SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | SPHEREx & PUNCH

    SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | SPHEREx & PUNCH

    SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies. It also will search for water and organic molecules –…