Author Topic: SpaceX F9 : Transporter-10 Rideshare : VSFB SLC-4E : 4 March 2024 (22:05 UTC)  (Read 76582 times)

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SpaceX is targeting Monday, March 4 for Falcon 9’s launch of the Transporter-10 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff is targeted for 2:05 p.m. PT. If needed, there is a backup opportunity Tuesday, March 5 at the same time.

A live webcast of this mission will begin on X @SpaceX about 10 minutes prior to liftoff. Watch live.

This will be the fifth flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission which previously launched Crew-7, CRS-29, PACE, and one Starlink mission. Following stage separation, Falcon 9 will land on Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Transporter-10 is SpaceX’s 10th dedicated smallsat rideshare mission. There will be 53 payloads on this flight, including CubeSats, MicroSats, and a hosted payload. To date, SpaceX has launched nearly 1,000 smallsats for more than 130 customers across our entire Rideshare program.

That’s B1081 getting a transfer from the Cape to Vandenberg just 25 days after its previous launch!
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Targeting Monday, March 4 for a Falcon 9 launch of our 10th dedicated smallsat rideshare mission with 53 spacecraft on board from Space Launch Complex 4 East in California → spacex.com/launches

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I see the new-style dispenser is being used again.
The list of payloads https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=transporter10
is about as expected except for the absence of the Tomorrow.io satellites and the presence of two GHOST.
Only 3 ICEYEs this time.  Unclear which of the four Lemurs are Hubble 1 and 2, and unclear
how big (3U? 16U?) the other two Lemurs are.

Edit: also worth noting most sats going to 515 km but then stage 2 makes an extra two burns to
a 590 km orbit where it releases BRO-12/13, HORACIO, RROCI-2, Musat-2, Pony Express 2, MethaneSat and three ICEYE.
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Targeting Monday, March 4 for a Falcon 9 launch of our 10th dedicated smallsat rideshare mission with 53 spacecraft on board from Space Launch Complex 4 East in California → spacex.com/launches

My attempt at identifying all the payloads. I'm pretty sure I got all but the one in the top right behind ICEYE.

Edit: thanks to Gunter and napff for helping identify the final ones!
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I see the new-style dispenser is being used again.
The list of payloads https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=transporter10
is about as expected except for the absence of the Tomorrow.io satellites and the presence of two GHOST.
Only 3 ICEYEs this time.  Unclear which of the four Lemurs are Hubble 1 and 2, and unclear
how big (3U? 16U?) the other two Lemurs are.

Edit: also worth noting most sats going to 515 km but then stage 2 makes an extra two burns to
a 590 km orbit where it releases BRO-12/13, HORACIO, RROCI-2, Musat-2, Pony Express 2, MethaneSat and three ICEYE.


Concerning Hubble, we know one is LEMUR-2 JOHNNYTRUONG (a.k.a. LEMR 2421, FM192, Hubble PFM v9.3) (see photo earlier in this threat)
The "v9.3" might perhaps indicate, that it may be Hubble-3. We actually do not know for sure, which two of the three Hubbles contracted with Spire are on board.

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Targeting Monday, March 4 for a Falcon 9 launch of our 10th dedicated smallsat rideshare mission with 53 spacecraft on board from Space Launch Complex 4 East in California → spacex.com/launches

My attempt at identifying all the payloads. I'm pretty sure I got all but the one in the top right behind ICEYE.

The right one of the AerospaceLab satellites is Rose.

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https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=transporter10
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This will be the fifth flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission which previously launched Crew-7, CRS-29, PACE, and one Starlink mission. Following stage separation, Falcon 9 will land on Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
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There will be 53 payloads on this flight, including CubeSats, MicroSats, and a hosted payload.
Were there any sightings of B1081 traveling cross-country?

Identity of the one hosted payload?



With four minutes margin, three Falcon 9 launches, from the three Falcon 9 launchpads, scheduled for March 4 UTC!

Edit: Successful two for three thus far! 👍
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Targeting Monday, March 4 for a Falcon 9 launch of our 10th dedicated smallsat rideshare mission with 53 spacecraft on board from Space Launch Complex 4 East in California → spacex.com/launches

My attempt at identifying all the payloads. I'm pretty sure I got all but the one in the top right behind ICEYE.


I believe the top right behind Iceye is MuSat-2, and the bottom right behind the exopods is Quark+Gluon. They match the look of sats in this article https://www.muonspace.com/posts/muon-space-secures-nro-contract-for-electro-optical-tech and the atomos website’s background video https://www.atomosspace.com/
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To clarify, scheduled liftoff is at 1400 PST, ie local time in California. That's 17.00 EST.

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Based on the deployers in the picture, the other two LEMURs should be 3U

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Falcon 9 going vertical at SLC-4E ahead of Transporter-10 today.

https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/1764705702185230783
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https://twitter.com/aravindeo/status/1764606828292567229

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Another quarter, another @SpaceX rideshare launch. As is often the case, most of the 53 spacecraft launching on the Transporter-10 mission are Earth observation satellites.

Here's a breakdown of the diversity of EO satellites launching tonight:

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First Launches:

- @MethaneSAT from @EnvDefenseFund for global methane monitoring,

- MS1 & MS2 from @tomorrowio_ with microwave sounders for weather monitoring,

- LizzieSat-1 from @SidusSpace with multispectral and AIS sensors with edge computing capability,

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- Aries from @ApexSpacecraft with potential EO instruments along with edge compute,

- ContecSat-1 for South Korean firm Contec with a high-resolution imager.

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Constellation Updates:

- HAMMER from @Open_Cosmos, a hyperspectral imager with edge computing for marine monitoring,

- NewSat-44 from @Satellogic with a high-resolution multispectral instrument,

- Veery-0E from @CareWeather, with a weather radar,

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- YAM 6 from @LoftOrbital with a multispectral and hyperspectral (?) imager,

- MuSat-2 from @MuonSpace with GNSS-R and ionospheric instruments for weather and soil moisture monitoring,

- 4x microsats from @aerospacelab_ with high-resolution imagers and radio-frequency sensors,

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- HORACIO from @satlantis_ with thermal infrared (VNIR/SWIR) instrument,

- BRO-12 and BRO-13 from @UnseenLabs with radio-frequency sensors for maritime intelligence,

- GHOSt-4, 5 from @OrbitalSidekick with hyperspectral sensors,

- 3x @ICEYEfi SAR satellites.

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Tech Demos:

- OrbAstro-TR2 from @OrbAstro
- PYXIS from @axelspace
- EWS-RROCI for the US Space Force (by @Orion_Space_CO)
- SONATE-2 from Germany
- AEROS from Portugal
- IRIS-F1 from Taiwan

and more.

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As always, I love doing these breakdowns for Transporter missions, every quarter. Let me know if I missed any EO satellite. Ad Astra!

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Weather local, marine and winds aloft

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Find someone who looks at you the way we look at our satellites post-integration in an @Exolaunch deployer 🛰️❤️

1st photo says JOHNNYTRUONG is Hubble 1, see bottom of the card.
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https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1764759140701028687

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T-1 hour until Falcon 9's launch of our 10th dedicated smallsat rideshare mission from California. Weather is currently 90% favorable for liftoff → spacex.com/launches

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PDF of online press kit and link to Twitter livestream.

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxllLyVXzxL
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T-38 minutes. The SpaceX launch director should be verifying go to start propellant loading.
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T-35 minutes. First stage LOX loading and first and second stage RP-1 loading should be starting about now.
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T-20 minutes. Second stage RP-1 loading should be completed about now.
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https://twitter.com/NASA_LSP/status/1764766476324446429

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Launch of the Falcon 9 is targeted for 2:05 pm PST (5:05 pm EST)! 🚀

Tune in to @SpaceX's broadcast around T-10 minutes:
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