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.
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.
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.
SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | MTG-S1 Rocket Launch
Second of EUMETSAT’s third generation of weather satellite.
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.
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.
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.
SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 9-11 Rocket Launch
Last three of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.
SpaceX | Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer B Rocket Launch
Classified mission launched by the Space Development Agency (SDA) for Tranche 1 Transport Layer.