| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2026-05-03, 06:59:00 |
|---|---|
| Scheduled for (local) | 2026-05-02, 23:59:00 (PDT) |
| Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA |
| Booster | B1071-33 |
| Landing | Landing Zone 4 |
| Payload | CAS500-2 and 44 other ride-shares |
| Mass | 500 kg + unknown |
| Customer | KASA and others |
| Target Orbit | SSO |
Webcasts
| Stream | Link |
|---|---|
| Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULdQKEF9MyU |
| Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vYPVVe6INg |
| NASASpaceflight | none |
| The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqwfmCSOXXg |
| SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2050830011775508828 |
| The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAYpPfnj9E8 |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 27th launch from SLC-4E this year
☑️ 3 days, 4:16:11 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 50 days, 16:01:01 turnaround for B1071
☑️ 34th landing on LZ-4
☑️ 614th Falcon Family Booster landing, 625th Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 53rd Falcon 9 mission this year, 636th overall
☑️ 54th SpaceX mission this year, 664th overall (excluding Starship test flights)
☑️ 54th SpaceX launch this year, 673rd overall (including Starship test flights)
Mission info
CAS500-2
The South Korean CAS500 1 and 2 space vehicles are Earth-observation models that will image the Earth in panchromatic and multispectral modes using the AEISS-C (Advanced Earth Imaging Sensor System) payload.
The CAS500 satellites will feature the AEISS-C (Advanced Earth Imaging Sensor System) imaging system with a ground resolution of 0.5 m in panchromatic mode and 2 m in color mode.
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Webcast is live. Zachary Luppen (avionics supply chain engineer) and Nathan Commissariat (launch engineer) are hosting.
Liftoff!
MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, stage 1 boostback burn, and fairing separation.
SES-4, SECO-4, and nominal orbit insertion.
Final payload deployments are scheduled for T+2 hours 19 minutes.
CAS500-2 separation confirmed!
Next payload deployments is scheduled for around T+1 hour 12 minutes.
Stage 1 landing confirmed!
Schedule for 1st set of rideshare deployments:
- ☑️ 01:16:37 Selene deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:16:46 KNA’s QUBE-II deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:16:52 FrontierSat deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:16:54 Helios deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:17:04 RAVEN deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:17:17 BRO-21 deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:17:34 Balkan-2 deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:17:38 Hydra-3 deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:17:59 SNAPPY deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:18:33 JEN-1 deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:19:01 Lynk Tower 7 deploys, manifested by Lynk Global
- ☑️ 01:19:22 BSLT-3 deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:19:58 Lynk Tower 8 deploys, manifested by Lynk Global
- ☑️ 01:20:03 Pelican-8 deploys, manifested by Planet Labs
- ☑️ 01:20:30 Pelican-7 deploys, manifested by Planet Labs
- ☑️ 01:20:46 Jackal Autonomous Orbital Vehicle deploys, manifested by True Anomaly
- ☑️ 01:21:00 Pelican-9 deploys, manifested by Planet Labs
- ☑️ 01:21:21 Eycore-1 deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 01:22:08 GalaxEye’s Mission Drishti deploys, manifested by Impulso.Space
Edit: Expected loss of signal at T+1:19:30.
Edit 2: Reaquisition of signal at T+1 hour 28 minutes. All payload deployments in this set confirmed.
SES-3 is scheduled for T+1 hour 36 minutes.
SECO, nominal orbit insertion.
SES-1 is scheduled for around T+54 minutes.
SES-2, SECO-2, and nominal orbit insertion.
First payload deployments are scheduled for T+59 minutes.
SES-3, SECO-3, and nominal orbit insertion.
SES-4 is scheduled for T+2 hours 13 minutes.
Schedule for 2nd set of rideshare deployments:
- ☑️ 02:22:18 Gemini-Pollux deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:22:24 FOREST-17 Telperion deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:22:35 NuLink-2 deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:22:53 NuLink-1 deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:22:53 BusanSat deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:23:13 PEARL-1B deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:23:39 PEARL-1A deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:24:00 FOREST-18 MangoShrikhand deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:24:22 FOREST-19 Patadastra deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:24:43 FOREST-16 Sowitasgoht deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:24:47 HEO-07 deploys, manifested by Argotec S.r.l.
- ☑️ 02:24:51 HEO-14 deploys, manifested by Argotec S.r.l.
- ☑️ 02:25:00 HEO-12 deploys, manifested by Argotec S.r.l.
Expected loss of signal
- ☑️ 02:25:06 HEO-13 deploys, manifested by Argotec S.r.l.
- ☑️ 02:25:12 HEO-10 deploys, manifested by Argotec S.r.l.
- ☑️ 02:25:53 ICEYE 2 deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:25:58 ICEYE 1 deploys, manifested by Exolaunch
- ☑️ 02:26:13 Loft-EarthDaily-5 deploys, manifested by Loft-EarthDaily
- ☑️ 02:26:23 Loft-EarthDaily-6 deploys, manifested by Loft-EarthDaily
- ☑️ 02:28:34 HEO-15 deploys, manifested by Argotec S.r.l.
- 02:29:05 Loft-EarthDaily-2 deploys, manifested by Loft-EarthDaily
- 02:29:15 Loft-EarthDaily-3 deploys, manifested by Loft-EarthDaily
- 02:30:08 HEO-11 deploys, manifested by Argotec S.r.l.
- 02:30:21 Loft-EarthDaily-4 deploys, manifested by Loft-EarthDaily
- 02:30:46 Loft-EarthDaily-7 deploys, manifested by Loft-EarthDaily
