| Scheduled for (UTC) | ~~2025-03-09, 03:10~~ TBD | |
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| | Scheduled for (local) | ~~2025-03-08, 19:10 (PST)~~ TBD | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1083-9 | | Landing | Landing Zone 4 | | Payloads | SPHEREx & PUNCH | | Customer(s) | NASA | | Target orbit | Sun-Synchronous Orbit |
Webcasts
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| | NASA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkTcmQJdGKg | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91pxGHJ4MgM | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88ru3jQy-4 | NASASpaceflight | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU_8opN1FBo | SpaceX | | The Space Devs |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 8th launch from SLC-4E this year
☑️ 14 days, 1:31:40 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 24th landing on LZ-4
☑️ 420th Falcon booster landing, 433rd Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 27th Falcon 9 mission this year, 445th overall
☑️ 27th SpaceX mission this year, 461st overall (excluding Starship flights)
☑️ 29th SpaceX launch this year, 478th overall (including Starship flights)
Mission info
The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer mission will provide the first all-sky spectral survey. Over a two-year planned mission, the SPHEREx Observatory will collect data on more than 300 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe.
PUNCH is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to better understand how the mass and energy of the Sun’s corona become the solar wind that fills the solar system. Four suitcase-sized satellites will work together to produce images of the entire inner solar system around the clock.