SpaceX F9 : WorldView Legion Flight 3 : Florida : NET early 2025

[gongora]

Thread for WorldView Legion Flight 3

NSF Threads for WorldView Legion: Flight 1, Flight 2, Flight 3

Launch on Falcon 9 NET early 2025.  A pair of Legion satellites will be deployed.  Falcon 9 first stage B10xx-xx will land at LZ-1.

Launch will occur on or after November 15, 2024, depending on launch availability.

Accordingly, for the instant STA, Maxar will be able to provide more precise estimates for the WorldView Legion 5 and 6 beaconing transmissions occurring outside earth station coverage when Maxar obtains more information about its specific launch window, which will occur closer to the yet-to-be finalized launch date.

[zubenelgenubi]

Launch is not in early November.

Cross-posts:

My bold:

Ben Cooper's Launch Photography Viewing Guide, updated October 31:

The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on November 3 at 4:57-8:57 p.m. EST. A Falcon 9 will launch the CRS-31 Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the ISS from pad 39A on November 4 at 9:29 p.m. EST. The first stage will land back at the Cape about eight minutes after launch. A Falcon 9 will launch the Koreasat 6A communication satellite from pad 40 on early November. The first stage will land back at the Cape about eight minutes after launch. A Falcon 9 will launch from pad 40. Upcoming launches include more Starlink batches. A Falcon 9 will launch the GSAT-20 communication satellite for India on mid-November. A Falcon 9 will launch the SiriusXM-9 communication satellite on November 23 earliest.

Also, Koreasat 6A:

NextSpaceflight; updated October 31:
Launch NET 11 November, from CCSFS SLC-40, RTLS landing (LZ-1 or 2)

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What is the single launch, if not Starlink?
WorldView Legion 5/6?
Blue Ghost?
Something National Security?

Answer?
Optus-X:

NextSpaceflight; updated October 31:
Launch NET 17 November, SLC-40, no mention of landing location.

Edited

My bold:

Ben Cooper's Launch Photography Viewing Guide, 2nd update October 31:

The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on November 3 at 4:57-8:57 p.m. EST. A Falcon 9 will launch the CRS-31 Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the ISS from pad 39A on November 4 at 9:29 p.m. EST. The first stage will land back at the Cape about eight minutes after launch. A Falcon 9 will launch the Koreasat 6A communication satellite from pad 40 on mid-November. A Falcon 9 will launch from pad 40. Upcoming launches include more Starlink batches. A Falcon 9 will launch the GSAT-20 communication satellite for India on late November. A Falcon 9 will launch the SiriusXM-9 communication satellite on late November.

GSAT-N2 / GSAT-20:

NextSpaceflight; updated October 31:
Launch NET 23 November

SXM-9:

NextSpaceflight; updated October 31:
Launch NET 28 November

Launch is NET November.  Remember, after SpX-31, both LC-39A and SLC-40 are available through November and much of December.

[zubenelgenubi]

No sign of a November launch.  NET December?

Edit/add upon further reflection:
We have no news that the satellites have been delivered from Maxar to the Cape.  There was such notice for Flight 2 because Antonov delivered those satellites from Moffett in California.

Launch NET December, with the possibility of slipping into 2025?

[Galactic Penguin SST]

From MAXAR's press release of first photos from satellites #3 and 4: [Nov 21]

What’s next for the WorldView Legion program?

* We continue to progress through the commissioning and calibration process for our third and fourth WorldView Legion satellites, which were launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, in August 2024.
* We expect both satellites to be supporting customer missions soon.
We are on track to launch fifth and sixth WorldView Legion satellites in the coming months.

I take that as "NET early 2025".

[GewoonLukas_]

Maxar prepares for final WorldView Legion launch to complete advanced imaging constellation
November 21, 2024

Maxar Intelligence is targeting early 2025 for the launch of its final pair of WorldView Legion imaging satellites, marking the completion of an ambitious six-spacecraft Earth observation constellation.

“We’re ready to go,” CEO Dan Smoot said in an interview.  He said Maxar is in discussions with SpaceX to schedule the launch as soon as possible,  though the timing remains fluid given SpaceX’s packed manifest of customers.

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