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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Bandwagon-3 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - April 21, 2025

Launch Date: April 21, 2025 (EDT) Launch Time: 8:48 p.m. EDT - April 22, 0048 UTC, 02:48 CEST Launch Window: Open until 9:23 p.m. EDT Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida...

Watch live: SpaceX launches and lands Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral on Bandwagon 3 mission

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying multiple payloads on the Bandwagon-3 ride-share mission. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is...

🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Bandwagon-3 Satellite Rideshare Mission

Bandwagon-3 is a dedicated rideshare mission launched by SpaceX as part of its SmallSat Rideshare Program. This program offers small satellite operators affordable access to space, with regularly sche...

Bandwagon-3 Mission

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Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Dedicated Rideshare

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 95%
B1090 - Landing Zone 2

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • April 17, 2025, 2:38 a.m.

NET April 22 UTC.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 17, 2025, 9:57 a.m.

Tweaked launch window.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 17, 2025, 5:55 p.m.

Tweaked T-0.


Cosmic_Penguin • April 19, 2025, 3:45 a.m.

GO for launch.


LL2 • April 22, 2025, 12:28 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
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  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    ―

Booster Info


B1090

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: December 17, 2024
Last Flight: October 7, 2025
Flights: 8
Landings Attempted: 8
Landings Successful: 8
Previous B1090 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1090 has landed back at the launch site after its 3rd flight.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 2.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 579 Failures: 15 Pending: 121

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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