Welcome to the WorldView Legion 1 & 2 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread!
| Scheduled for (UTC) | NET April |
|---|---|
| Scheduled for (local) | NET April |
| Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California |
| Payload | WorldView Legion 1 & 2 |
| Booster | Unknown |
| Landing site | LZ-4 |
| Customer | DigitalGlobe |
| Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payloads to Sun-Synchronous Orbit |
Webcasts
| Stream | Link |
|---|---|
| Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5hf7QpVB_w |
| Spaceflight Now | |
| NASASpaceflight | |
| The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpY5vSgwMKI |
| SpaceX | |
| The Space Devs |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 14th launch from SLC-4E this year
☑️ 14 days, 4:05:00 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 18th landing on LZ-4
☑️ 42nd Falcon 9 launch this year, 43rd SpaceX launch this year
☑️ 256th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (excluding Amos-6) (if successful)
☑️ 337th SpaceX mission overall (excluding Starship hops)
☑️ 355th SpaceX launch all time (including Starship hops)
☑️ 302nd Falcon Family Booster landing, 312th Falcon recovery attempt
Mission and payload info
Currently being built by SSL, WorldView-Legion is DigitalGlobe’s next generation of earth observation satellites.
“WorldView Legion 1 & 2” sounds like a computer game and its sequel! For half a second I genuinely wondered whether I’d misunderstood some aspect of how Lemmy works, or something, and was seeing posts from a different [subreddit] …