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• Polaris Dawn: C207-3 (Resilience)
• Crew-9: C212-4 (Freedom)

Who remembers when SpaceX wasn't "the undisputed leader in launch"? Amazing how time flies.

Starlink Group 10-5 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-08-20 13:20 UTC, or 2024-08-20 09:20 local time (EDT). Booster 1085-1 (new booster!) to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqmaT4POtV4
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ClvwCLXvI0
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3imOt__Ce-c
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxGevMitRog
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1825884120486130020
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF8K1OZgr3g

Infographic source: rykllan

https://x.com/_rykllan/status/1824161314538729844

• B1061 and B1062 are tied for first place at 22 flights.
• B1067 in second place with 21 flights, 1063 in third place with 19 flights.
• B1069 and B1071, and B1073 are tied for 5th place at 17 flights each.

https://x.com/_rykllan/status/1824161318523359567

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-08-16, 18:56 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-08-16, 11:56 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1075-12 | | Landing | LZ-4 | | Payloads | Multiple | | Customers | Multiple | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to SSO |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WVENEaFvvw | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cmrLaEAF9o | NASASpaceflight | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvFthRg22Bk&pp=ygUOdGhlIGxhdW5jaCBwYWQ%3D | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1824517750707896665 | The Space Devs |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 27th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 4 days, 16:54:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 20th landing on LZ-4

☑️ 341st Falcon Family Booster landing, 351st Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 11th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 80th Falcon 9 mission this year, 366th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 81st SpaceX mission of 2024, 381st mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 83rd SpaceX launch this year, 394th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight mission page

Transporter 11 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 SSO for ESPA class payloads for as low as $300,000 per mission, which includes up to 50kg of payload mass.

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-08-15, 13:00 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-08-15, 09:00 (EDT) | | Mission | CRS NG-21 | | Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA | | Booster | B1076-16 | | Landing | LZ-1 | | Payload | WorldView Legion 3 & 4 | | Customer | Maxar Technologies | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to LEO |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o12UhwZY4gQ | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5bnoNUK51M | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cju0XNW2Ut0 | The Launch Pad | https://youtube.com/watch?v=6KNKORsX8mg | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1824065327980019774 | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1uPcDo3G4M

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 38th launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 5 days, 0:10:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 43rd landing on LZ-1

☑️ 340th Falcon Family Booster landing, 350th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 10th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 79th Falcon 9 mission this year, 365th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 80th SpaceX mission of 2024, 380th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 82nd SpaceX launch this year, 393rd SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight mission page

Currently being built by SSL, WorldView-Legion is DigitalGlobe's next generation of earth observation satellites.

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-08-12, 02:02 | |

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| | 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 | |

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| | 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

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight mission page

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.

Starlink Group 10-7 launch out of LC-39A in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-08-12 10:37 UTC, or 2024-08-10 06:37 local time (EDT). Booster 1073-17 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGlOK_zBtQk (scrub)
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANT-01xDqKI (scrub)
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj85zZB1qiE (scrub)
• The Launch Pad: (scrub)
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1822943944528838680 (scrub)
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHKQSdHyLMw

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1821689943904702664

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1821700452930515321

• NSF McGregor footage
• Frost comparison from TheSpaceEngineer.
• Gwynne fires a shot at Tory. You might even say she shot well.