| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-04-22 00:48 |
|---|---|
| Scheduled for (local) | 2025-04-21, 20:48 (EDT) |
| Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA |
| Booster | 1090-3 |
| Landing | Landing Zone 2 |
| Payload | Multiple |
| Customers | Multiple |
| Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payloads to LEO |
Webcasts
| Stream | Link |
|---|---|
| Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7Lv9c4A1A |
| Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceflightNowVideo/streams |
| NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLO7_BYDqms |
| The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/@TheLaunchPad/streams |
| SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1914477027719307446 |
| The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4DZrRbAUPA |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 21st launch from SLC-40 this year
☑️ 7 days, 20:47:50 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 12th landing on LZ-2
☑️ 440th Falcon family booster landing, 451st Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 46th Falcon 9 launch this year, 464th overall
☑️ 46th SpaceX mission this year, 480th overall (excluding Starship flight tests)
☑️ 48th SpaceX launch this year, 498th overall (including Starship flight tests)
Mission info
Bandwagon-3
Bandwagon-3 is a dedicated rideshare mission by SpaceX. SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program provides small satellite operators with regularly scheduled, dedicated Falcon 9 rideshare missions to mid-inclination orbits for ESPA class payloads for as low as $300,000 per mission, which includes up to 50kg of payload mass.
Looks like we’ll get a rare Falcon 9 landing at LZ-2. Usually that pad is used only for simultaneous Falcon Heavy side booster landings, but with Bandwagon-3 launching so soon after CRS SpX-32, I guess LZ-1 will still occupied by B1092 at the time B1090 returns to land.
Propellant load is underway. T-20 minute vent has occurred.
Liftoff!
Stage 1 landing confirmed!
MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, boostback burn, and fairing separation.
No webcast coverage of Stage 2 at the request of a customer, but Jonathan McDowell confirms that it reached orbit and that payloads were deployed:
https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3lneiyfswvc27
LAUNCH at 0048 UTC Apr 22 of the Bandwagon-3 mission on Falcon 9 from Canaveral, placing the South Korean DAPA defense agency’s Gunjeongchai-wiseong 4 (Reconaissance Satellite 4) in a 570 km, 45 deg orbit. Stage 1 landed at Canaveral Landing Zone 2.
https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3lnenxwyads2q
The Bandwagon-3 Falcon 9 should have made its deorbit burn over NW California at about 0225 UTC (7.25pm PDT) and relased the AtmosSpaceCargo Phoenix shortly after, with reentry over the Atlantic about 15 min from now
https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3lnerlvqbw22j
Bandwagon-3: ADD 425-4 and the Tomorrow-S payload cataloged in 566 x 607 km x 45.4 deg and 572 x 581 km x 45.4 deg orbits, confirming successful launch
https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3lngi2t4n6k2j
#Falcon9 fairing halves of #Bandwagon3
