SpaceX F9 : SpainSat-NG II : CCSFS SLC-40 : 23/24 October 2025 (01:30 UTC)

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Launch

https://twittercom/SpaceX/status/1981533849067933756

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1981533954378473807

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MAX-Q

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MECO, Stage Separation, grid fin deployment

NSF - NASASpaceflight.com
@NASASpaceflight
Farewell B1075-22 - the final mission for this booster. Expendable flight for this mission.

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1981534693435814355

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Fairing Separation

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SECO, Parking Orbit insertion callout

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Dillon
@Dillonshrop06
Hazard Map for Spainsat NG II

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Arriving for the Second engine re-light

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Second Engine re-light

[ChrisC]

SpaceX commentator: "We say to the first stage, thank you, and farewell."

In memory, requoting SpaceX's statement from earlier in the thread:

Due to the additional performance required to deliver this payload to orbit, this will be the 22nd and final flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched CRS-26, OneWeb Launch 16, Intelsat IS-40e, SES O3b mPOWER-C, Ovzon-3, Eutelsat 26D, Turksat 6A, Maxar 2, SXM-9, and 12 Starlink missions.

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Deployment of payload
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SpaceX@SpaceX
Deployment of SpainSat NG II confirmed

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1981542719844733414

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I think that does it for this launch. Have a great evening, and catch you tomorrow.

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Professional Photo only post (will be updated as more are posted on X)

https://twitter.com/tweetsiphotos/status/1981538480686616947

https://twitter.com/NStewWX/status/1981538788946898953

https://twitter.com/John_Winkopp/status/1981540571815571690

https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1981539953948647442

https://twitter.com/asherbphotos/status/1981540858223550893

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Launch highlight video

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Video for payload deployment.

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Video and image post:

SpaceX@SpaceXFalcon 9 launches the SpainSat NG II mission to orbit from Florida

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1981570596283482113

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Full Replay:

[jacqmans]

Airbus-built SpainSat NG-II secure communications satellite successfully launched

Getafe, Spain, 24 October, 2025 – SpainSat NG-II, the second Airbus-built new generation secure communications satellite for Spain, has been successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center, in the U.S.

The launch of this second satellite completes the SpainSat NG programme, the most ambitious space project in Spain's history and the most advanced government communications system in Europe. The programme has been led and promoted for the Ministry of Defence by the Spanish operator Hisdesat.

It is expected that in the spring of 2026 they will jointly serve the Spanish Armed Forces, international organisations such as the European Commission in the GOVSATCOM programme, or NATO, and other allied governments.

This second satellite, operated by Hisdesat for the Spanish Armed Forces will ensure Europe’s most advanced secure communications, together with its twin satellite launched in January and already in orbit.

Following the completion of integration, testing, and validation at Airbus facilities in Toulouse, the satellite was shipped in September to Florida, where it was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket.

"Secure satellite communications play an increasingly important role in operating effectively in multiple fields, including military operations and humanitarian relief and rescue missions. With SpainSat NG, Spain will be at the forefront of Europe and among one of the few countries in the world with access to the most secure communications networks, providing our country and its allies with sovereignty and strategic autonomy," said Raquel González Sola, Head of Space Systems at Airbus in Spain.

Based on an Airbus Eurostar Neo platform, the approximately 7 metre, 6 ton SpainSat NG-II spacecraft, carries an innovative payload including an X-band active receive and transmit antenna system, providing the equivalent functionality of 16 traditional antennas. It guarantees reliable communications for military and government missions and can adapt and change its coverage up to 1,000 times per second. Additionally, the active antennas system can eliminate and geolocate jamming attempts with high accuracy and is hardened to protect against potential nuclear electromagnetic pulses in orbit. The satellite payload, representing around half of the entire satellite, was designed and manufactured by the Spanish space industry, led by Airbus.

Key innovative technologies, in particular active antennas on the SpainSat NG satellites were developed as part of the Pacis 3 ESA-Hisdesat Partnership through the ESA ARTES programme and supported by the Spanish Space Agency.

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-10-airbus-built-spainsat-ng-ii-secure-communications-satellite

[ZachS09]

Are there TLEs available for Spainsat-NG 2 now that it's been in space for almost 24 hours?

[StraumliBlight]

Are there TLEs available for Spainsat NG-2 now that's been in space for almost 24 hours?

https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?INTDES=2025-239

SPAINSAT NG II         
1 66144U 25239A   25297.52786545 -.00000170  00000+0  55381-3 0  9992
2 66144  26.7778 246.6577 8217377 178.7247 187.6797  1.16854831    22

Hisdesat Linkedin [Oct 28]

Our radar satellite #PAZ also captured the launch of #SpainSat NG II and gave us this impressive image. Below, we can see in high resolution the space launch complex at Cape Canaveral, from where the second secure communications satellite of Hisdesat Servicios Estrategicos SA

[ZachS09]

Are there TLEs available for Spainsat-NG 2 now that it's been in space for almost 24 hours?

https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?INTDES=2025-239

SPAINSAT NG II         
1 66144U 25239A   25297.52786545 -.00000170  00000+0  55381-3 0  9992
2 66144  26.7778 246.6577 8217377 178.7247 187.6797  1.16854831    22

That's a lower SSTO than Spainsat-NG 1.

1,611.2 m/s of delta-v to GEO for Spainsat-NG 2; 23 m/s more than the first satellite.