Scheduled for (UTC) 2024-08-12, 02:02
Scheduled for (local) 2024-08-11, 19:02 (PDT)
Mission ASBM
Launch site SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Booster B1061-22
Landing Of Course I Still Love You
Payload ASBM-1, ASBM-2
Customer Norwegian Ministry of Defense, Inmarsat, USAF
Mission success criteria Successful delivery of payload to Highly Elliptical Orbit

Webcasts

Stream Link
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnuvVhWe0B0
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJkwyjdhwXY
NASASpaceflight
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NWv3-vxC7k
SpaceX https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1822812261792014815
The Space Devs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkcdMp8SUWw

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 26th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 7 days, 18:38:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 99th landing on OCISLY

☑️ 338th Falcon Family Booster landing, 348th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 8th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 77th Falcon 9 mission this year, 363rd Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 78th SpaceX mission of 2024, 378th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 80th SpaceX launch this year, 391st SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM)

The ASBM satellites will carry multiple hosted payloads including an X-Band payload for the Norwegian Ministry of Defense and a Ka-Band payload for Inmarsat. Northrop Grumman announced last year that it will also provide two Extremely High-Frequency eXtended Data Rate (EHF XDR) payloads for the Enhanced Polar System-Recapitalization (EPS-R) to the U.S. Air Force for integration on the spacecraft. The systems are designed to improve secure and continuous communications in the North Polar Region. Additionally, Northrop Grumman was selected to provide critical ground infrastructure for EPS-R.