SpaceX to Launch 23-Satellite Bandwagon-5 Mission on Falcon 9 From Cape Canaveral
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Updated · News 13 Orlando · Oct 16
SpaceX to Launch 23-Satellite Bandwagon-5 Mission on Falcon 9 From Cape Canaveral
3 articles · Updated · News 13 Orlando · Oct 16
Summary
A one-hour launch window for Bandwagon-5 opens at 6:30 a.m. ET Monday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, with SpaceX targeting deployment of 23 rideshare satellites.
The dawn timing could produce a visible “jellyfish effect,” when the Falcon 9 exhaust plume expands and glows near sunrise, similar to the effect seen during the CRS SpX-35 mission.
Exolaunch is coordinating the mission for multiple customers, including ICEYE radar-imaging satellites and Planet iQ’s GNOMES-11 spacecraft for weather and space-weather services.
Booster B1085 is set for its 19th flight after prior crewed and lunar-related missions, and is expected to land on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic.