Scheduled
Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-481
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5
Next launch
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Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
Launch window 23:44–03:44 UTC.
The mission
A classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bus, based on locations of ascent rocket stage drop zones being fits with previous SDA Transport Layer launches.
Vehicle and site
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Family
- Falcon
- Mission
- USSF-481
- Mission type
- Government/Top Secret
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 4E
- Location
- Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Coordinates
- 34.6320°, -120.6110°
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
- Launches to date
- 735
- Successful
- 720
- Failed
- 15
- Consecutive successes
- 220
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