Welcome to the WorldView Legion 1 & 2 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread!
Scheduled for (UTC) | NET April |
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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 |
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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.
Launch pushed to Thursday.