Launch Date: November 11
Launch Window: 10:47AM PST (1:47PM EST, 18:47 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Core Booster Recovery: RTLS - LZ-4
Booster: B1071.12
Fairings: Reused
Mass: Approx 5 metric tonnes
Orbit: SSO - Polar LEO
Yearly Launch Number: 82
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter 9 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with numerous small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg.
This launch will likely use the new MVac nozzle extension design aimed at increasing cadence and reducing costs. This new nozzle extension is shorter and, as a result, the engine has a lower specific impulse and therefore performance. Due to this, it will only fly on missions that don't need Falcon 9's full performance capability.
Payloads:
D-Orbit ION SCV013
Apogeo (9x 1/3U, Apogeo)
Sateliot (x4)
(hosted) StardustMe "Stars of Calm"
?(hosted) DCubed manufacturing demo
ExoLaunch (28 CubeSats + ? microsats)
Connecta T3.1 & T3.2 (2x 3U, Plan-S)
Barry-1 (3U, Endurosat, with Rogue Space Systems payload)
Djibouti-1A (1U, CERD/CSUM, Djibouti)
(Foxconn) (6U?, Foxconn)
GHGSat (3x 16U, built by Spire)
ICEYE (?x 90kg)
Mango Two (2x 3U, Spire)
Mantis (12U, Satlantis/Open Cosmos/Space UK/ESA)
NinjaSat (6U, Riken/Mitsui Bussan Aerospace, Japan, built by Nanoavionics)
Observer-1A (16U, Nara Space, Korea)
Outpost Mission 2 (3U, Outpost)
PLATERO (6U, Open Cosmos)
ProtoMéthée-1 (16U, PROMÉTHÉE Earth Intelligence, France, built by Nanoavionics)
(SNC) (4x 6U, Spire) rf intelligence
UnseenLabs (2x ?U)
Veronika (1U, Spacemanic/Boris Procik, Slovakia)
Impulse Space Mira S/N 2 - LEO Express-1 mission Tom Meuller's new company!
Time We'll Tell (?U, TrustPoint)
ExoTrail spacevan
Pellican-1 (?kg, Planet)
SuperDove Flock 4q (36x 3U, Planet)
AMAN-1 (3U, SatRev/Oman) (via Momentus)
Hello Test 1 & 2 (?P, Hello Space, Turkey) (via Momentus)
JinjuSat-1 (2U, CONTEC, South Korea) (via Momentus)
Picacho (1U, Lunasonde, USA) (via Momentus)
Alba Orbital
ROM-3 (2P, RomSpace, Romania)
Space ANT-D (1P, SpaceIn, Malaysia)
EPICHyper-3 (6U, AAC Clyde Space for Wyvern)
GENMAT-1 (6U)
Intuition 1 (6U, KP Labs, Poland)
MuSat-2 (67kg, Muon Space)
OMNI-LER1 (6U)
OSW Cazorla (3U, Odyssey Spaceworks, using Endurosat bus)
RapidEO (?, L3Harris for US government)
ScopeSat (8x 6U, SatRev, Poland)
SpIRIT (6U, U. of Melbourne, Australia)
Stork-x/x (2x 3U, SatRev, Poland)
Umbra 7/8 (2x 83kg, Umbra)
Xcraft (microsat, Xplore)
Ymir-1 (3U, Saab/AAC Clyde Space)
? (42U microsat built by Nanoavionics)
Possible Payloads:
Falconsat-X
GNOMES-4 (PlanetiQ, 41.7kg)
Hawkeye 360
Pony Express (2x 12U, aka Tyvak-0261/-0262)
Launch Window: 10:47AM PST (1:47PM EST, 18:47 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Core Booster Recovery: RTLS - LZ-4
Booster: B1071.12
Fairings: Reused
Mass: Approx 5 metric tonnes
Orbit: SSO - Polar LEO
Yearly Launch Number: 82
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter 9 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with numerous small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg.
This launch will likely use the new MVac nozzle extension design aimed at increasing cadence and reducing costs. This new nozzle extension is shorter and, as a result, the engine has a lower specific impulse and therefore performance. Due to this, it will only fly on missions that don't need Falcon 9's full performance capability.
Payloads:
D-Orbit ION SCV013
Apogeo (9x 1/3U, Apogeo)
Sateliot (x4)
(hosted) StardustMe "Stars of Calm"
?(hosted) DCubed manufacturing demo
ExoLaunch (28 CubeSats + ? microsats)
Connecta T3.1 & T3.2 (2x 3U, Plan-S)
Barry-1 (3U, Endurosat, with Rogue Space Systems payload)
Djibouti-1A (1U, CERD/CSUM, Djibouti)
(Foxconn) (6U?, Foxconn)
GHGSat (3x 16U, built by Spire)
ICEYE (?x 90kg)
Mango Two (2x 3U, Spire)
Mantis (12U, Satlantis/Open Cosmos/Space UK/ESA)
NinjaSat (6U, Riken/Mitsui Bussan Aerospace, Japan, built by Nanoavionics)
Observer-1A (16U, Nara Space, Korea)
Outpost Mission 2 (3U, Outpost)
PLATERO (6U, Open Cosmos)
ProtoMéthée-1 (16U, PROMÉTHÉE Earth Intelligence, France, built by Nanoavionics)
(SNC) (4x 6U, Spire) rf intelligence
UnseenLabs (2x ?U)
Veronika (1U, Spacemanic/Boris Procik, Slovakia)
Impulse Space Mira S/N 2 - LEO Express-1 mission Tom Meuller's new company!
Time We'll Tell (?U, TrustPoint)
ExoTrail spacevan
Pellican-1 (?kg, Planet)
SuperDove Flock 4q (36x 3U, Planet)
AMAN-1 (3U, SatRev/Oman) (via Momentus)
Hello Test 1 & 2 (?P, Hello Space, Turkey) (via Momentus)
JinjuSat-1 (2U, CONTEC, South Korea) (via Momentus)
Picacho (1U, Lunasonde, USA) (via Momentus)
Alba Orbital
ROM-3 (2P, RomSpace, Romania)
Space ANT-D (1P, SpaceIn, Malaysia)
EPICHyper-3 (6U, AAC Clyde Space for Wyvern)
GENMAT-1 (6U)
Intuition 1 (6U, KP Labs, Poland)
MuSat-2 (67kg, Muon Space)
OMNI-LER1 (6U)
OSW Cazorla (3U, Odyssey Spaceworks, using Endurosat bus)
RapidEO (?, L3Harris for US government)
ScopeSat (8x 6U, SatRev, Poland)
SpIRIT (6U, U. of Melbourne, Australia)
Stork-x/x (2x 3U, SatRev, Poland)
Umbra 7/8 (2x 83kg, Umbra)
Xcraft (microsat, Xplore)
Ymir-1 (3U, Saab/AAC Clyde Space)
? (42U microsat built by Nanoavionics)
Possible Payloads:
Falconsat-X
GNOMES-4 (PlanetiQ, 41.7kg)
Hawkeye 360
Pony Express (2x 12U, aka Tyvak-0261/-0262)
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