Author Topic: SpaceX F9 : Transporter-15 Rideshare : VSFB SLC-4E : 28 November 2025 18:44 UTC  (Read 150083 times)

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https://twitter.com/umbraspace/status/1994533022939713859

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Launch success!

Umbra successfully deployed and acquired signal from its third-generation satellite, Umbra-11, which launched from the @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aboard the Transporter-15 from @SLDelta30.

Umbra-11 contains the highest proportion of U.S.-made, Umbra-developed components to date, reinforcing our commitment to U.S. innovation and secure, American-made space systems.

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Transporter-15 Pre-Launch
Derived from individual Pre-Launch Transporter-15 state vectors for each object in the initial deployment, provided by SpaceX.
 Launch: 2025-11-28 18:44:29.988 UTC.
Deployments: 2025-11-28 19:39:07.228 UTC to 2025-11-28 21:27:38.188 UTC.
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https://twitter.com/GoToImpulse/status/1994655431864533078

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🚀 LEO Express 3 is officially underway!

Mira has successfully launched aboard the Transporter-15 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Following separation from SpaceX’s Falcon 9, we’ve received initial telemetry data and confirmed two-way comms, as well as deployment of the solar arrays. The vehicle is healthy and we are moving through commissioning procedures.

Stay tuned for mission milestones as Mira’s journey unfolds: https://impulsespace.com/updates/leo-express-3-mission-updates

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Transporter-15 Pre-Launch
Derived from individual Pre-Launch Transporter-15 state vectors for each object in the initial deployment, provided by SpaceX.
 Launch: 2025-11-28 18:44:29.988 UTC.
Deployments: 2025-11-28 19:39:07.228 UTC to 2025-11-28 21:27:38.188 UTC.
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https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/supplemental/
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Transporter-15 Post-Deployment
Derived from individual Post-Deployment Transporter-15 state vectors for each object in the initial deployment, provided by SpaceX.
 Launch: 2025-11-28 18:44:30.198 UTC.
Deployments: 2025-11-28 19:38:51.598 UTC to 2025-11-28 21:27:40.118 UTC.

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Are the white dots trailing behind the cubstats that were deployed?


https://twitter.com/s2a_systems/status/1994723235234197691

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A short animation of tonight's pass of Transporter-15 from 2025-11-29 03:25:32 UTC (horizon) to 2025-11-29 03:27:05 UTC (entry into Earth's shadow), seen from South America.

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https://twitter.com/ESA_EO/status/1994721337227575505

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First signals received! 📡

The
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 Eaglet II satellites have established contact with the ground and teams at @OHB_Italia confirm they are doing well. Data from the IRIDE satellites will asupport products such as maps, monitoring services and multi-temporal analysis:
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#Falcon9 fairing halves of #Transporter15
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Three more Greek CubeSats reach space
28/11/2025

Cleaner airwaves and safer seas will be soon possible thanks to the launch of three small Greek satellites. Supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), satellites of the PHASMA and MICE-1 missions launched on 28 November, where they will demonstrate new capabilities in radio frequencies usage and maritime tracking from space.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Connectivity_and_Secure_Communications/Three_more_Greek_CubeSats_reach_space#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=dc864fd3-fbff-409e-939a-ae7d842f0300
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I saw somewhere AC-001 to 003 could be Azalea RF-1 to 3, with the C standing for "cluster".

Azalea

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In-Space Missions is working with BAE Systems to design and build three Azalea Cluster 1 satellites to deliver high-quality information and intelligence in real time to our customers.

[...]

Exolaunch Linkedin [Oct 16]

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🇬🇧 Exolaunch is proud to announce its first-time collaboration with BAE Systems Digital Intelligence in delivering three Azalea™ radio frequency (RF) LEO satellites, designed and built in Britain by BAE Systems, safely to orbit aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-15 mission 🛰️ The launch of the Azalea™ satellites will mark a key step in advancing sovereign space capabilities for the UK.

Convincing. So we're sorted, other than wondering what payloads are deploy-later abord the various tugs
(ION, LEO Express, FGN-TUG)

FGN-TUG-S01 will likely deploy a test satellite. Fergani Space CEO said: "It will also serve as a test vehicle, flying together with a smaller satellite to contribute to our ongoing developments."


FGN-TUG indeed released a satellite yesterday [Dec 08]:

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Subsequently, the FRG-10D1 CubeSat successfully separated from the orbital transfer vehicle.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ferganispace_ulu%C4%9Fbey-k%C3%BCresel-konumlama-sistemi-hedefimize-activity-7403093859343347712-a4EL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACW0ookBVoRCbb9HjrbvwtH5k15e2sPybfw

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https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/2013039287864844383

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67483, the object erroneously associated with the Gushenxing-2 launch,  has been reassigned to a new (and so far unidentified) object from the  Transporter-15 mission
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I saw somewhere AC-001 to 003 could be Azalea RF-1 to 3, with the C standing for "cluster".

Azalea

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In-Space Missions is working with BAE Systems to design and build three Azalea Cluster 1 satellites to deliver high-quality information and intelligence in real time to our customers.

[...]

Exolaunch Linkedin [Oct 16]

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🇬🇧 Exolaunch is proud to announce its first-time collaboration with BAE Systems Digital Intelligence in delivering three Azalea™ radio frequency (RF) LEO satellites, designed and built in Britain by BAE Systems, safely to orbit aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-15 mission 🛰️ The launch of the Azalea™ satellites will mark a key step in advancing sovereign space capabilities for the UK.

Convincing. So we're sorted, other than wondering what payloads are deploy-later abord the various tugs
(ION, LEO Express, FGN-TUG)

FGN-TUG-S01 will likely deploy a test satellite. Fergani Space CEO said: "It will also serve as a test vehicle, flying together with a smaller satellite to contribute to our ongoing developments."


FGN-TUG indeed released a satellite yesterday [Dec 08]:

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Subsequently, the FRG-10D1 CubeSat successfully separated from the orbital transfer vehicle.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ferganispace_ulu%C4%9Fbey-k%C3%BCresel-konumlama-sistemi-hedefimize-activity-7403093859343347712-a4EL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACW0ookBVoRCbb9HjrbvwtH5k15e2sPybfw



No 2025-276 objects in this orbit, could they be mistagged as 2025-313C and D?
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