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.

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    1·
    23 days ago

    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.