Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-09-18 23:00 |
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Scheduled for (NZST) | 2024-09-19 11:00 |
Launch site | Rocket Lab LC-1A, Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand |
Booster recovery | No |
Launch vehicle | Electron + Curie |
Customer | Kinéis |
Payload | Kinéis 6-10 |
Mission success criteria | Successful deployment of spacecraft into desired orbit |
Stream | Link |
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Rocket Lab (official) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dPkZOKYvWo |
Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQNX40_Z9E |
The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3guWBZcscS8 |
Second batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each. The constellation will enable Kinéis, a company backed by private and public investors including the French government’s space agency CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales) and CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) an international space-based solutions provider, to improve its global IoT connectivity.
Previous mission: A Sky Full Of SARs
Next mission: TBD
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Starlink Group 9-17 launch out of SLC-4E in California currently scheduled for 2024-09-20 12:00 UTC, or 2024-09-19 05:00 local time (PDT). Booster [unknown] to land on Of Course I Still Love You.
Webcasts:
https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/09/17/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-european-commissions-galileo-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral/
https://spacenews.com/faa-fines-spacex-for-launch-license-violations/
The FAA intends to fine SpaceX more than $633,000 for violating its launch licenses, a decision SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he will fight in court.
Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-09-17, 22:50 |
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Scheduled for (local) | 2024-09-17, 18:50 (EDT) |
Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA |
Booster | B1067-22 |
Landing | Just Read the Instructions |
Payload | Galileo FOC FM26 & FM32 |
Customer | ESA/EUSPA |
Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to MEO |
Stream | Link |
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Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib_SNrBKOng |
Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPLDpwpXy5M |
NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBeAMl-aEc |
The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rqB8fFOOM |
SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1836173431122907318 |
The Space Devs |
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 21st consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)
☑️ 44th launch from SLC-40 this year
☑️ 5 days, 13:58:00 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 38 day turnaround for B1067
☑️ 92nd landing on JRTI
☑️ 350th Falcon Family Booster landing, 361st Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 90th Falcon 9 mission this year, 376th Falcon 9 mission overall
☑️ 91st SpaceX mission of 2024, 391st mission overall (excluding Starship flights)
☑️ 93rd SpaceX launch this year, 404th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)
Galileo is a global navigation satellite system that went live in 2016, created by the European Union through the European Space Agency (ESA) and operated by the European GNSS Agency (GSA). The €10 billion project is named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. One of the aims of Galileo is to provide an independent high-precision positioning system so European nations do not have to rely on the US GPS, or the Russian GLONASS systems, which could be disabled or degraded by their operators at any time.
The use of basic (lower-precision) Galileo services is free and open to everyone. The higher-precision capabilities are available for paying commercial users. Galileo is intended to provide horizontal and vertical position measurements within 1-metre precision, and better positioning services at higher latitudes than other positioning systems. Galileo is also to provide a new global search and rescue (SAR) function as part of the MEOSAR system.
The first Galileo test satellite, the GIOVE-A, was launched on 28 December 2005, while the first satellite to be part of the operational system was launched on 21 October 2011. By July 2018, 26 of the planned 30 active satellites (including spares) were in orbit. Galileo started offering Early Operational Capability (EOC) on 15 December 2016, providing initial services with a weak signal and reached Full Operational Capability (FOC) in 2019. The full Galileo constellation will consist of 24 active satellites, which is expected by 2021. It is expected that the next generation of satellites will begin to become operational after 2025 to replace older equipment, which can then be used for backup capabilities.
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