Final flight of B1073, as it will be intentionally expended on this launch.

Scheduled for (UTC) 2025-01-30, 01:34
Scheduled for (local) 2025-01-29, 20:34 (EST)
Launch site LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Booster B1073-21
Landing None
Payloads SpainSat NG I
Customers Hisdesat
Mission success criteria Successful delivery of payloads to Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Webcasts

Stream Link
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LYugL0RCYY
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPeVSqgCBn4
NASASpaceflight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xi3c1Ek5W8
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1vfu5Gcs0A
SpaceX https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1884773585404719216
The Space Devs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClXgRRWjsLM

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 4th launch from LC-39A this year

☑️ 8 days, 20:09:10 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 13th Falcon 9 mission this year, 431st Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 13th SpaceX mission this year, 447th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 14th SpaceX launch this year, 463rd SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

SPAINSAT NG is Hisdesat’s largest project since its foundation. Its technological complexity and strategic relevance will position the company as an international benchmark in satellite communications. The new Spainsat NG generation will multiply by 16 times the capacity in X and Ka military band with respect to the current devices and will add a new payload in UHF band. In addition, it will operate with active X-band antennas in receive and transmit. Pioneers in the European aerospace sector, each of them will be assigned 16 different areas of operation to perform their coverage services with electronic configuration.

The SpainSat NG I & II will replace the current SpainSat and XTAR-EUR and will incorporate the latest technological advances in communications to reinforce their capabilities, security levels and resilience. They will have a useful life of about 15 years, which means that they will be fully operational until the 2040 threshold.