SpaceX - Falcon 9 - WorldView Legion 3 & 4 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFB - August 15, 2024
Launch Date: August 15, 2024
Launch Time: 9:00 a.m. EDT, 1300 UTC, 15:00 CEST
Launch Window: 9:00 a.m. EDT til 10:00 a.m. EDT
Launch Status: Success. MAXAR satellites Worldview Legion 3 & 4 were delivered to orbit.
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 Block 5 (Booster B1076)
Customer: Maxar Technologies
Flight Number: 16
Flown missions for the booster: 15 - CRS-26, OneWeb Launch 16, Intelsat IS-40e, O3b mPOWER, Ovzon 3, Eutelsat 36D, Turksat 6A, and eight Starlink missions
Mission: WorldView Legion 3 & 4
Launch Location: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA
Launch Inclination: Northeast
Landing: Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Price: $69,75 million
Rocket:
Diameter 3,7m
Height: 70 m
Payload to Orbit:
LEO 22,800 kg
GTO 8,300 kg
LiftOff Trust:
7,607 Kilonewtons
Fairing:
Diameter: 5,2 m
Height: 13 m
Stages:
2
SpaceX targets August 15, 2024, for a Falcon 9 launch of Maxar Technologies WorldView 3 & 4 (Maxar 2 Mission) satellites to a sun-synchronous orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The scheduled launch time is 9:00 a.m. EDT, 1300 UTC, 15:00 CEST. If needed, a backup launch opportunity is available on Friday, August 16, with a three-hour window opening at 9:00 a.m. ET.
Following stage separation, the first stage will land on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Space Affairs live stream begins ca. 20 minutes before the planned T-Zero.
WorldView Legion is a planned series of high-resolution earth observation satellites from the US company Maxar Technologies. They are intended to replace the capacities of the WorldView-1, WorldView-2, and GeoEye-1 satellites.
SSL (formerly Space Systems/Loral), a subsidiary of Maxar, is building the satellites. Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation, will provide the cameras. The satellites can record panchromatic resolutions of up to 0.29 meters. Images with resolutions of up to 1.16 m should be possible on a multispectral level. The satellites can photograph the exact locations up to 40 times a day.
A total of two satellites will operate in a polar orbit and four satellites in a sun-synchronous orbit.
For more information about inclination, visit https://flightclub.io (available on the launch day).
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