Scheduled for (UTC) 2024-10-20, 05:13
Scheduled for (local) 2024-10-19, 22:13 (PDT)
Launch site SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Booster B1082-7
Landing LZ-4
Payload 20 OneWeb satellites
Customer Eutelsat OneWeb
Mission success criteria Successful delivery of payload to Polar Orbit

Webcasts

Stream Link
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-681Bx6XNJg
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdmvurETHjE
NASASpaceflight none
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJrY0uuUBMM
SpaceX https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1847865913959469097
The Space Devs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-b5YuDrIk

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 31st consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 34th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 4 days, 20:52:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 21st landing on LZ-4

☑️ 358th Falcon family booster landing, 368th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 98th Falcon 9 mission this year, 384th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 100th SpaceX mission of 2024, 400th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 103rd SpaceX launch this year, 414th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

The 20th flight dedicated to the OneWeb high-speed Internet constellation. The initial constellation consists of 648 satellites. Later, the constellation could be expanded to more than 900 satellites depending on demand. OneWeb is expected to begin customer demonstrations in 2022, then provide a global, 24-hour service in 2022/2023.

Each satellite in the constellation weighs 147.7 kg. They are powered by Russian ion engines, manufactured by OKB-Fakel, and have two solar panels for their power supply. The first generation of satellites, operating on a quasi-polar orbit (1 200 km x 86.4°), cannot perform inter-satellite communication, and can only be used near a ground relay station.