Go Beyond departed PoLB on Apr 10 @ 6:19pm PT / 9:19pm ET
West Coast SpaceX ship GO Beyond is outbound from the Port of Long Beach to recover the fairing for the USSF-62 mission. The booster will RTLS to LZ-4.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, April 11 for Falcon 9’s launch of the USSF-62 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The approximate 10-minute launch window opens at 7:25 a.m. PT. If needed, a backup opportunity is available Friday, April 12 with the same launch window.A live webcast of this mission will begin on X @SpaceX about 15 minutes prior to liftoff. Watch live.This will be the third launch of the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched two Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage will land on Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The U.S. Space Force is launching the Weather System Follow-on – Microwave Space Vehicle, the first of two satellites that will create a more hybrid Space-Based Environmental Monitoring architecture. The payload was encapsulated into our flight-proven fairings last week
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Space Systems Command is in final preparations for the launch of theU.S. Space Force (USSF)-62 mission carrying the first Weather Systems Follow-on-Microwave(WSF-M) satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Ca. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launchWSF-M for SSC’s Space Sensing program office into low-Earth orbit (LEO).The rocket went vertical on Space Launch Complex-4 East (SLC-4E) as planned, ahead ofits scheduled launch on April 11 at 7:25 a.m. PDT during an approximate 10-minute launchwindow.
“We’re absolutely thrilled be out here on the central California coast, with a superbteam primed and ready to launch the USSF-62 satellite. It has an important mission ahead of itand we’re excited for flight-proven Falcon 9 to deliver the satellite to orbit. And on this mission,we’re using a first-stage booster whose history is purely commercial, having launched twoStarlink missions, in additional to a flight-proven fairings, which is a first for a National SpaceSecurity Launch,” said Col. Jim Horne, senior materiel leader for SSC’s Launch Execution Delta.
Space Systems Command@USSF_SSCSpace Systems Command is in final preparations for the launch of theU.S. Space Force mission carrying the first Weather Systems Follow-on-Microwave satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Ca.
Falcon 9 rolled out to the pad and went vertical ahead of Thursday’s launch of USSF-62. Webcast begins ~15 min. ahead of liftoff → http://spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=ussf-62
SpaceX@SpaceXClear skies and fair winds for this morning’s USSF-62 mission. All systems are looking good and weather is 95% favorable for a Falcon 9 launch of the U.S. Space Force’s newest weather space system → http://spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=ussf-62
Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth and land at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 4
William Harwood@cbs_spacenewsF9/USSF-62: Good morning; we're standing by for launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first Space Force Weather System Follow-on – Microwave (WSF-M) satellite; liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base is targeted for 10:25am EDT (1425 UTC)7:06 AM · Apr 11, 2024
William Harwood@cbs_spacenewsF9/USSF-62: Space Force says the Ball Aerospace-built satellite is designed to fill in gaps in space-based environmental monitoring, using a passive microwave radiometer and other sensors to collect data on ocean winds, tropical cyclone intensity and charged particles in low-Earth orbit7:09 AM · Apr 11, 2024
William Harwood@cbs_spacenewsTwo WSF-M satellites are planned to eventually replace older-generation Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) weather stations7:09 AM · Apr 11, 2024
