Tag: Falcon 9

SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | 425 Project Flight 3

Note: Name of payload is provisional. Third launch of an ultimately 5 reconnaissance satellites for the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), with 1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite on this launch. They will be launched to low Earth orbit between 600 and 700 km by 2025, enabling South Korea’s military to…
SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 2 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpainSat NG I

First of two new-generation satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications to the Spanish government, its allies, and various international organizations.
SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32

32nd 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.
SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander

Lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace. Blue Ghost will be carrying 10 payloads for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) as well as several additional commercial payloads.
SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

Second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon’s surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will…
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 | Nova-C IM-2

This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer.
SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 7 & 8

Seventh and eighth of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.