SpaceX F9 - Transporter 2 - SLC-40

[Grendal]

Launch Date: June 29
Launch Window: 2:56-3:54 p.m. EDT (18:56-1954 GMT)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Core Booster Recovery: RTLS
Booster: B1060-8
Fairings: TBD
Mass: 31,000 kg
Orbit: SSO

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter 2 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

A list of satellites is available here:

List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2021 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Grendal]

Updated. Likely to be RTLS.

 

[TLej]

Drone ship landings are cool, but nothing beats RTLS for me.

 

[MacGreiner]

RTLS - yes!

 

[HVM]

RTLS - yes!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1407009484032020480

Yep.

 

[Grendal]

 

[Grendal]

Delayed until the 28th. They are taking extra time to check out the static fire data.

 

[Grendal]

 

[Grendal]

Actual webcast:

 

[Grendal]

And hold...due to fouled range. Someone is not where they are supposed to be. Maybe an airplane.

 

[JohnnyEnglish]

And hold...due to fouled range. Someone is not where they are supposed to be. Maybe an airplane.

 

[HVM]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1409951549988782087

 

[HVM]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1409953146135252994

more about: Airspace Integration

 

[Grendal]

Newer webcast:

 

[Grendal]

 

[Grendal]

Pushed out 35 minutes. Probably due to weather.

 

[HVM]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1410322285077012481

 

[qdeathstar]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1409953146135252994

more about: Airspace Integration

Space X is certainly not a saftey first company.

 

[HVM]

Falcon 9 is rolling coal and make all those diesel trucks look pathetic.

 

[HVM]

Space X is certainly not a saftey first company.

Total and utter BS.

FAA is already working to streamline it's space red tape.