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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – SpaceX effectively sent a shipment (or rocket) from a spacecraft Sunday night.
Departing from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 3nineA, the Falcon Nine rocket unveiled the Bandwagon-1 project at 7:16 p. m. ET, SpaceX said.
It’s an instant release.
The forecast was good for Sunday night’s launch, as the 45th Weather Squadron gave about a 95 percent chance of good liftoff conditions.
The Falcon nine first-stage booster, B1073, has thirteen launch missions under its belt, in addition to the Bandwagon-1 mission.
ispace’s HAKUTO-R and NASA’s Lunar Lantern
SES-22 Communications Satellite
Amazon Nexus
CRS-27
9 Starlink Satellite Missions
After the levels were separated, the rocket’s first-tier booster landed in Landing Zone 1.
The Falcon Nine rocket is loaded with 11 spacecraft from countries and companies.
“On board this project are 11 spacecraft, Korea’s 425Sat, HawkEye 360 groups 8 and 9, Tyvak International’s CENTAURI-6, iQPS’ QPS-SAR-7 TSUKUYOMI-II, Capella-14’s Capella Space and Tata Advanced Systems Limited’s TSAT-1A. “SpaceX said.
This is what was discovered in the payload component.
8 HawkEye 360 Groups
Tyvak International’s CENTAURI-6: Not much is known about this satellite, but previous CENTAURI satellites concerned telecommunications and connectivity.
iQPS’ QPS-SAR-7 TSUKUYOMI-II: This satellite will emit resistant radio waves to produce high-resolution images.
Capella Space’s Capella Space-14: The Acadia-4 satellite will provide “up to five times as much satellite imagery time in orbit to other SAR advertising providers. . . Capella said.
Not much has been discovered in COREA’s 425Sat and Tata Advanced Systems Limited’s TSAT-1A payloads.